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One study evaluated motorcycles as being 37 times more dangerous for a fatal accident than a car. [19] Motorcycle accidents were the leading non-combat cause of death for US service members. [20] Between 1999 and 2012 4,423 died in combined motor vehicle deaths including motorcycles. [21] Of those 1,134 died in motorcycle crashes. [22]
Approximately one-quarter of these motorcycle accidents were single vehicle accidents involving the motorcycle colliding with the roadway or some fixed object in the environment. Vehicle failure accounted for less than 3% of these motorcycle accidents, and most of those were single vehicle accidents where control was lost due to a puncture flat.
The total fatalities figures comes from the WHO report (table A2, column point estimate, pp. 264–271) and are often an adjusted number of road traffic fatalities in order to reflect the different reporting and counting methods among the many countries (e.g., "a death after how many days since accident event is still counted as a road fatality?"
Unfortunately, the state has already seen one fatal motorcycle crash this year. Motorcycle use is at an all-time high and the two primary factors involved in these crashes are driver inexperience ...
Kartik Prabhakaran is head of Westchester Medical Center's Level 1 trauma center, the only one of its kind in the Hudson Valley. He said motorcycle accidents tend to happen more frequently from ...
Another Abilene accident resulted in tragedy this past weekend. An Abilene woman died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash just after midnight Saturday, according to a recent police press ...
The article on Motorcycle fatality rate in U.S. by year indicates that the number of motorcycle fatalities in the US has remained about 5000 per year for most of the past decade. In 2006, 13.10 cars out of 100,000 ended up in fatal crashes, while the rate for motorcycles was 72.34 per 100,000 registered motorcycles. [3]
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