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- Subject: Rider Safety
- From: Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:40:36 -0500
Not Triumph specific, but I thought the numbers were interesting.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA),
2,284 motorcyclists were killed nationwide (US) in 1998, compared with
2,116 in 1997 (an increase of 8% - ending a 4 year decline) (unfortunately
I could not find any figures to relate that number to the number of
registrations - with more registrations would could naturally assume more
crashes)
- - Motorcycle fatalities account for 4.1% of all vehicle fatalities.
- - Of 1,017 fatal crashes involving a second vehicle, 36% were caused by a
vehicle turning left in front of the motorcycle
- - In fatal motorcycle crashes, alcohol was involved 40% of the time. The
good news is that in 91% of the 45,000 injury motorcycle crashes, alcohol
was not involved.
- - 50% were killed during the week, 50% on the weekend (more people riding
Sat/Sun). During the week and on weekends the time period of 3pm to
midnight accounted for almost identical percentages - approx 57% of all
fatalities. The highest weekday time slot was 3pm to 6pm at 22.4% and on
the weekend it was the 6pm to 9pm slot at 21.3%
- - Helmet use - 51.5% of those killed used helmets while 44.5% did not (4%
unknown). My question here would be, how many of those 1,017 people not
using helmet would have been in the injury column instead had they been
wearing a helmet ?.....
And here is the biggie.......
726 of those killed had NO VALID MOTORCYCLE LICENSE............
(source AMA and NHSTA 1998 Motor Vehicle Crash Data Report)
- - Eric
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