Motorcycle deaths rise
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willie said:
The article goes on to address that issue...
"But more motorcycles don't account for the entire increase. The fatality rate is also on the rise. In 2003, the most recent year for which statistics are available for motorcycles, the fatality rate was 38.38 per 100 million miles traveled. In 2002, that figure was 34.23. By contrast, the fatality rate for all highway drivers has improved for decades and in 2004 was 1.46 per 100 million miles traveled."
"The increase in motorcycle deaths has spurred Congress to add $3 million to a federal transportation bill for a study on motorcycle crashes. President Bush is set to sign the measure this week. "What we need now are answers, not theories," said Tom Lindsay, spokesman for the American Motorcyclist Association."
or most anywhere around the beltway, or rt235
mv_princess
mv = margaritaville
I can't complain, i finally saw justice done to those guys.......coming home about 11/12 from baltimore, 8 of them flew by me doing close to about 120 easy! A few miles later, they were on the side of the road in cuffs....it was sweet to see!!!!!
teverheart2002
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That is sweet! I was going to say basically the same thing as everyone else, you watch these guys weave in and out of traffic cutting off cars and basically disregarding their own safety. Then you add the guys that decide that a highway is the best place to do their "tricks", not a good thing.
Ponytail
New Member
Cracks me up. On Yahoo discussions, folks are blaming the Harley Riders.
I think it's a combination. I think you'll see that the deaths are spread pretty even, I suspect tilted even toward the cruiser types. One of the reasons I quit going to Bike Week events was the number of folks riding big bikes, that had no business being on mopeds even. Until attitudes of the new riders become more of a "defensive rider" than the typical cocky "bulletproof" attitude that Reality TV seems to love to portray, riders are going to continue to be killed. No helmet laws will ever help save lives either. People aren't any smarter with a helmet. It's a helmet, not an antenna or energy source.
I think it's a combination. I think you'll see that the deaths are spread pretty even, I suspect tilted even toward the cruiser types. One of the reasons I quit going to Bike Week events was the number of folks riding big bikes, that had no business being on mopeds even. Until attitudes of the new riders become more of a "defensive rider" than the typical cocky "bulletproof" attitude that Reality TV seems to love to portray, riders are going to continue to be killed. No helmet laws will ever help save lives either. People aren't any smarter with a helmet. It's a helmet, not an antenna or energy source.
Ponytail
New Member
If a study is done, I want to see the following:
# of deaths of riders age 18-25, 26-35, 36-45, 46 up. I want to see the average number of TOTAL miles ridden among those killed in those age ranges. I want to see the type of bike, how far from home, and whether or not they were wearing helmets and I want to see how many involved a cager and where the fault of the accident lies, whether it be with the cager or the biker.
And I'd like to see the same statistics of the riders where a passenger that was killed is concerned.
# of deaths of riders age 18-25, 26-35, 36-45, 46 up. I want to see the average number of TOTAL miles ridden among those killed in those age ranges. I want to see the type of bike, how far from home, and whether or not they were wearing helmets and I want to see how many involved a cager and where the fault of the accident lies, whether it be with the cager or the biker.
And I'd like to see the same statistics of the riders where a passenger that was killed is concerned.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
ATGATT.. helmet's not going to help much as your skin is being abraded to the bone on asphalt, as your body is decelerating through the sloughing off of skin, muscle and bone. What percent of ones body will be used up if dressed in T-shirt and shorts and decelerating from 75 - 0, skipping down the asphalt??
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Just to take a walk off subject...
...isn't it amazing, 16,000 auto deaths, 4,000 bikers buying the farm.
Per year.
Wonder how many crippling injuries?
Just for perspectives sake we've lost 1,800 soldiers KIA and another what, 12,000 or so seriously wounded. In a combat zone. In 2 1/2 years. Trying to nurture democracy in a hostile region.
20,000 people die very year, of accidents, doing something that isn't suppossed to be belligerently dangerous, on the road and we deal with it once a year when the bodies are all counted. Ho hum.
Now, in all seriousness, shouldn't there be some hue and cry about the Presidents 'ineffective' highway safety program?
Or, conversely, a huge 'hell yeah' for how well our people in uniform are doing in a tough situation?
Or both?
...isn't it amazing, 16,000 auto deaths, 4,000 bikers buying the farm.
Per year.
Wonder how many crippling injuries?
Just for perspectives sake we've lost 1,800 soldiers KIA and another what, 12,000 or so seriously wounded. In a combat zone. In 2 1/2 years. Trying to nurture democracy in a hostile region.
20,000 people die very year, of accidents, doing something that isn't suppossed to be belligerently dangerous, on the road and we deal with it once a year when the bodies are all counted. Ho hum.
Now, in all seriousness, shouldn't there be some hue and cry about the Presidents 'ineffective' highway safety program?
Or, conversely, a huge 'hell yeah' for how well our people in uniform are doing in a tough situation?
Or both?