1. Are there any times when you don’t need to wear a helmet?

_________________________________________________

2. Name three safe bike riding practices:

a. __________________________________________

b. __________________________________________

c. __________________________________________

3. Riding your bike in the dark is dangerous, but if you have to ride at night, what can you do to make yourself more visible to drivers?
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
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4. What kinds of things should you check before you begin to ride?

a. _________________________________________________

b. _________________________________________________

c. _________________________________________________

5. Where do most bicycle crashes occur?
___________________________________________________

6. When riding your bike, it is important to stay alert at all times. Name three road hazards you should watch out for:
a. _________________________________________________

b. _________________________________________________

c. _________________________________________________

7. Is it OK to ride a bicycle while listening to audio headphones?
___________________________________________________

8. What is the most serious type of injury for cyclists?
___________________________________________________

9. Always be a courteous cyclist. Remember, _______________ have the right of way.

10. Be Safe, Be ______________________________________.

11. Always go with the flow of traffic, and stay to the __________.

12. Before entering a roadway, you should look ______________ for traffic.

13. Always check ________________ you before changing lanes.

14. Your bicycle helmet should fit _______________ and cover your ________________________.

15. When making a turn, __________ your moves to others.
 
 

ANSWERS 
 

1. No, you should wear a helmet every time you get on a bike.
2. Ride single file, obey traffic signs, signals, and lane markings; signal your moves to others; check for traffic at an intersection; stay alert at all times.
3. Wear clothing that reflects the light; make sure your bike as a front headlight that is bright and white; and equip your bike with reflections on the front and rear; and on the pedals and wheels.
4. Inflate your tires properly and check your brakes before riding. Always wear neon, fluorescent or other bright colors when riding during the day, carry your books and other possessions in a bicycle carrier or backpack.
5. At intersections
6. Potholes, wet leaves, storm grates, cracks, gravel, etc.
7. No
8. Head injuries
9. Pedestrians
10. Seen
11. Right
12. Left-right-left
13. Behind
14. Snugly/Forehead
15. Signal

Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services -- CCEMS -- was founded in 1975 to provide top quality, dependable, 24-hour emergency medical services for residents living in the unincorporated FM 1960 of Houston, Texas. CCEMS responds to 9-1-1 medical emergency calls in a 250 square mile area of north Harris County, and serves a population of over 450,000 people. Over the last 24 years, CCEMS teams have responded to more than100,000 calls.

Today, CCEMS has 7 stations and 9 fully-equipped Mobile Intensive Care Units licensed by the state of Texas. CCEMS responds to an average of 1100 calls per month -- double the response pattern of five years ago.

Including 9-1-1 dispatch time, callers wait an average of only 6 minutes 50 seconds for the ambulance to arrive. CCEMS First Responders, trained volunteers located throughout the community, dispatched at the same time as the ambulance, often arrive on the scene within five minutes to begin providing expert emergency care.

CCEMS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer based organization that relies on contributions from area residents, businesses and civic organization for funding, supplemented by Third Party Billing for service calls in which emergency services and transport are provided.