Had A Bike Accident? 7 Steps Remaining Calm Can Save Your Life
Days ago, I read a post from Facebook bicycle community, it’s about bike accident the lady, she had 11 minutes after left home. A car hit her and bike. And fortunately, her bicycle helmet protect her safe life, without the bike helmet, she said, it may be another story.
She only got some scratches on her face, and broken bike need to repair. Fortunately, she did not have a serious injury from the bike accident in the few seconds.
Just in few seconds, the bike accident may change a person life.
I am not a negative person, but when it comes to the reality, bike accident happens every minutes and everywhere no matter how skillful you’re when riding the bicycle.

Sometimes, there are a lot of uncontrolled effects that cause the injury. Such as poorly hit by the car, riding through bumping road, bike fall out of attention when riding, moving traffic and much more.
We cannot control the bad things happen, but we can prepare to remaining calm so as to prospect ourselves in the open road.
Today, we’re going to talk about 7 steps remaining calm can save your life.
Step # 1 Accept the reality quickly and be sure you stay in mind
Do you know what’s the most common for bike accident?
The most common accident scenario in road cycling is the left hook, the right hook and when the cyclist simply rides out into a roadway from a cross street and fails to yield to the cross traffic.
The power of acceptance, accept the reality — your bad experience on bike accident.
Why should accept your bike accident quickly?
The moment you fall off your bicycle, you might feel angry, embarrassed, and confused. Right?

I had bike accident too.
Lying on the ground with a motorist passing by asking if I was okay since the bad thing happens, the number one thing to calm myself to save a life is accepting this bike accident reality fast, and try to find the way out.
The calmer you are, the better prepared you will be to handle the situation.
Just at that moment, I realized that I had lacked the proper equipment to treat myself for my injuries.
I mean, cycling is no joke, when you think about it. You already have a myriad of things to worry about. Nuts loosening, motorists, derailleurs twisting, chains breaking, and cables snapping. You can be prepared and careful but sometimes stuff just happens.
I asked myself some quick question lying on the ground, just be sure that my mind still clear and have awareness around the environment. Such as, what happens? Who am I? Am I hurt? What should I do next?
All of those help me find out the solutions fast toward bad experience right away.
Step # 2 Try to move your body slowly and know where you get hurt
Try to move a little bit of your body slowly and know where you get hurt. If it’s only a minor mishap, that’s fine, stand up and check your injury.
Do the quick head, neck, chest, and abdomen check, if you felt painful on the certain part of your body or uncomfortable when breathing, it’s better not to move, maybe the invisible injury inside?
Here is a report from American Family Physician.
Injuries sustained by bicyclists. You can see from the table, most common biking injury include Overuse injury on Neck , hip , knee, foot/ankle and traumatic injury on head, face, chest , abdomen and so on.

Keep calm of yourself and see possible can get help from other people. Try to tell them where is not comfortable with your body and ask them to call to an emergency.
Step # 3 Get out of the road if it’s possible to avoid the 2nd injury
As we all know Sports injuries are injuries that occur in activities or exercising. What’s the 2nd injury?
To make it simple to understand, it’s injury has been hurt again which may cause the death to some point.
When it comes to the biking accident, this is true and important when you’re riding alone, the coming traffic especially car, they don’t notice cyclists when you’re upright.
Keep yourself visible and move to the right place off road track. If you’re biking in the dark in the evening, why not turn on all lights on your bike and have the reflector on the bike or on yourself.
Be safe will never be wrong on the open road.
In order to avoid the 2nd injury in the open road, after you have bicycle accident, get out of the road or to the edge of the trail if you can do it.
At the same time, be fully protecting yourself before going out for biking. Like using bike light, wear the bicycle helmet, follow the traffic on the road, riding in the bike lane and so on.

From Los Angeles Times, Bicyclists should stay on the defensive to stay safe suggest Wear a helmet and consider using a rear view mirror.
They said helmet won’t prevent an accident but can save your life in a crash. If you’re not comfortable holding a straight line while looking behind you, consider purchasing a rear view mirror to attach to your helmet.