Infographic: Skate, or die… slowly!
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In October 2009, the Queensland State Government banned skateboarding on roads after dark.
The stated purpose of the ban was to increase levels of “safety”, “common courtesy” and “common sense”.
In the context of climate change and childhood obesity is an ‘active sport’ curfew a smart decision?
With almost no skateboarding fatalities in the past 10 years and the health of kids declining, the ban seems misplaced… our kids can either skate, or die… slowly!
Obesity
600,000 Australian children aged 5 to 17 years (25%) are overweight or obese.1
Screen time
(amount of time spent playing video games or in front of television)
On average, Australian children spend 16% of their day on screen time compared to 7% outdoor time.2
Fatalities
From 1996 to 2006, there 6 skateboard related fatalities in Queensland.3 There were 6,812 vehicle related fatalities over the same 10 year period.4
Environment
Act of skateboarding generates 0 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
Average Queensland household generates 13.77 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (primarily through car use, energy use and waste).5
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Source:
1 National Health Survey, 2007/08 (ABS Cat. No. 4364.0)
2 Australian Sports Commission
3 Queensland Government, Queensland Transport
4 Queensland Government, Office of Economic and Statistical Research
5 Toward Q2 – Tomorrow’s Queensland
Can do Campbell obviously doesn’t skate or he’d know the safest time to bomb hills is at night.