{"id":828,"date":"2008-05-29T20:01:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2008-05-29T20:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T02:01:35","slug":"intoxicated-bicyclists-36-times-more-likely-to-injure-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/intoxicated-bicyclists-36-times-more-likely-to-injure-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Intoxicated Bicyclists 3.6 Times More Likely to Injure Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"mailto:maroser@statesman.com\">Mary Ann Roser<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"source\">AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever drink and ride?<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medicine doctors for the Seton Family of Hospitals said it&#8217;s not uncommon for people in Austin to hit downtown-area bars, then hop on their bicycles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d behavior they strongly discouraged Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data for a study they plan to submit for publication next month found that one in five people they treated in a year&#8217;s time for bike-related injuries at the University Medical Center at Brackenridge were drinking and riding \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and almost always without a helmet&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Austin American-Statesman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/05\/29\/0529bikestudy.html\" target=\"_blank\">link to the rest of the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Austin American-Statesman By Mary Ann Roser AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF &#8220;Ever drink and ride? Emergency medicine doctors for the Seton Family of Hospitals said it&#8217;s not uncommon for people in Austin to hit downtown-area bars, then hop on their bicycles <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/intoxicated-bicyclists-36-times-more-likely-to-injure-head\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[201,200,199],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-helmet","tag-head-injury","tag-intoxicated"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}