Students, mark your calendars. Monday, Sept. 16 from noon to 1 p.m., in ʻŌhiʻa 118, The Queen’s Medical Trauma Center, Kapiʻolani Community College will hold a presentation made by trauma patients and medical staff. It will include facts about motorcycle and moped safety. Those attending will also hear from speakers who have crashed with and without helmets.
The first 150 people who provide proof of ridership (a motorcycle license or a moped registration card) and complete a written survey are eligible to win one of 25 Scorpion motorcycle helmets.
In Hawaiʻi emergency rooms, approximately 330 college-aged motorcycle and moped riders enter with serious injuries from crashes. Caesar Ursic, doctor and Medical Director of Trauma at the Queen’s Medical Center applied for grant money to buy helmets and present information to young adult motorcycle and moped riders to help prevent traumatic brain injuries and death, according to the QMC press release.
QMC has funding from the Hawai’i State Department of Transportation to provide young riders with Scorpion helmets and information about riding safely.