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Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures, Volume 1: Technical Report (cover page). The Hurt Report, officially Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures, was a motorcycle safety study conducted in the United States, initiated in 1976 and published in 1981.
Approximately 50% of the motorcycle riders in traffic were using safety helmets but only 40% of the accident-involved motorcycle riders were wearing helmets at the time of the accident. Voluntary safety helmet use by those accident-involved motorcycle riders was lowest for untrained, uneducated, young motorcycle riders on hot days and short trips.
Hugh Harrison (Harry) Hurt, Jr., (December 13, 1927 – November 29, 2009) [1] [2] [3] was an American researcher on motorcycle safety. He was the author of the 1981 Hurt Report, described as "the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century." [4]
The Hurt Report also commented on injuries after an accident stating that the likelihood of injury is extremely high in these motorcycle accidents – 98% of the multiple vehicle collisions and 96% of the single vehicle accidents resulted in some kind of injury to the motorcycle rider; 45% resulted in more than a minor injury. [58]
Vanessa and her husband died at the scene. Siska Lorensa, the nanny, sustained serious injuries. The driver, Tubagus Joddy, and Vanessa's son suffered minor injuries. Theo Angelopoulos: 1935 2012 76 years Greek film director pedestrian Drapetsona, Greece He was hit by a motorcycle driven by an off-duty police officer while crossing a busy road.
When an accident does happen, there is a reported 80% chance of injury or death on a motorcycle in comparison to about 20% for passenger vehicles. [10] Non-fatal injuries for motorcycle accidents include the danger of paralysis, such as quadriplegia. [32]
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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?"