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[QUOTE="oldguy, post: 960543, member: 16965"]
Many collarbone breaks are caused by the helmet snapping it  a neck roll that attaches to your chestprotecter may prevent this injury.  Both my son and I have broken our collarbones this way.

Best overall preventative beyond safety equipment is to know your abilities and don't over ride them.  My son altho not the fastest rider was riding beyond his level earlier this season and sufferred 2 conconsions in addition to numerous bumps and bruises.  We discussed this from the perspective of one more concussion and his season was over.  The decision was to back off and get faster by riding a bit slower.  Sounds strange but our theory (and it seems to be working) was that at the rate he was riding when he hit a bad situation he had nothing to grasp to pull him thru it.  At the reduced rate he still had a reserve of ability to often get him out of trouble.  since he started this approach his results have taken a big jump and far fewer crashes
Next up is stay in topshape (I am far from this) and in addition to muscle tone be sure to maintain flexibility.
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