Two examples of Health System
Costs from a bicycle hitting another bicycle
on 'open roads' with
Muggaccinos
cyclists that do not
Bunch
Ride
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On
Sunday 1
April 2012
Tony Koppi aka
Yorkshire, who cycles with
Muggaccinos,
suffered a trauma accident when he failed to
see, in sufficient reaction/response time, two cyclists
that he was riding behind who had slowed at amber traffic
lights. Tony applied his caliper brakes and went
over his handle bars suffering bruises/abrasions and a
lump on his head. His two cycle associates called
an ambulance. Six hours after his trauma, Tony was discharged
from the Emergency Ward at RNSH exceedingly pleased with
the highly professional treatment he had received from
NSW Ambulance Service and RNSH. Tony
subsequently reported,
" I'd had chest, shoulder and
neck X-rays, head CT scan, and abdominal ultrasound, and
blood tests within 2 hours." The health
system
cost of that 'avoidable' fall due to being too close to two
cyclists ahead for Tony to react/respond in time would
have been around $5,000.
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On Sunday 4 May 2008
Guy de Carli aka
Lawyer
who
rode with
Muggaccinos
was cycling SSW along Wisemans Ferry
Rd with another cyclist, Greg P. 10m behind him. A few cars were coming
towards Guy and Greg heading NNE. Suddenly two motor bikes drew out
from behind the cars travelling in the opposite direction. Guy slowed his speed.
Greg swerved to miss Guy but clipped Guy's pedal and the two cyclists hit the road. The accident was out of mobile ‘phone range. Hence,
concerned motorists couldn’t call an ambulance. Whereupon a
motorist drove Guy and Greg to Hornsby
Hospital. Guy suffered a fracture at T6 and T7 in his neck and a bulged
intervertebral disc at T6/T7, necessitating a fusion at T6/T7 at
Royal North Shore Hospital Spinal Unit.
The health
system
cost of that 'avoidable' fall due to Greg being too close to
Guy for Greg to react/respond in time would
have been around $25,000.
Foregone income/productivity during rehab
would have been $15,000 circa.
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