The Aurora Police Department wants you to have fun riding your bike and be safe too.
Wearing a bike helmet is the most important thing you can do to protect your brain and your life when riding a bicycle. Children between the ages of 5 and 14 have the highest rate of injury of all bicycle riders. More then 500,000 children a year go to the hospital emergency rooms of doctors’ offices due to bike injuries.
Here are some safety tips:
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- Ride with traffic. Keep to the right of the road.
- Obey all traffic regulations.
- Use proper hand signals for turning or stopping.
- Stop and look both ways in order to make sure that sidewalks or streets are clear before entering a street.
- Walk your bicycle across busy streets at corners or crosswalks.
- Use proper headlights and a red tail light or reflector when riding at night.
- Wear your bike helmet and make sure your brothers and sisters do, too. Make a deal with your best friends to always wear your helmets when you ride together.
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- Show off. Keep your hands on the handlebars.
- Zigzag, race or stunt ride in traffic.
- Hitch rides on trucks or cars.
- Ride at night.
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