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most motorcycle accidents involve only the motorcycle and no other vehicle and motorcycles have a considerably higher rate of fatal crashes due to things like h
by whimsicalism 3y ago
most motorcycle accidents involve only the motorcycle and no other vehicle and motorcycles have a considerably higher rate of fatal crashes due to things like hitting fixed barriers.
- djbusby 3y agohttps://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/motorcycle-safety https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/motorcy... Here is some data from USA, I've not read it.
- growse 3y agoWhat that stat doesn't tell you is the rate of near misses. It's anecdotal I know, but as someone who commutes on a bike, the number of times I almost crash by myself per journey is near zero, yet the number of times a car tries to inadvertently occupy the same piece of road as me is multiple.
- whimsicalism 3y agomotorbike? or bicycle bike?
- growse 3y agoMotorbike
- kazinator 3y agoOh, bikes are perfectly safe; it's fixed barriers that aren't.