Poll results published by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital suggested that almost one in five children aged 4 to 13 years who ride bicycles never wears a helmet.

Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH, the Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, told Infectious Diseases in Children that 600 children present to EDs every day in the United States with bicycle-related injuries.