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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.
Nearly half of all deadly accidents involve only the motorcycle (so-called single-vehicle accidents) and a major issue is the loss of control during a bend in the road. [5] [9] There is a reported 80% chance of injury or death on a motorcycle in the event of an accident, compared to about 20% for passenger vehicles. [10]
A 2007 motorcycle crash scene investigation in San Francisco. Professor Hurt, with a team of investigators (all of whom were motorcyclists themselves) [3] examined motorcycle accident scenes in the City of Los Angeles, day and night, during the twenty-four-month period of 1976–77. They did on-scene investigations of over 900 accidents and ...
An uninsured motorist clause is a provision commonly found in United States automobile insurance policies that provides for a driver to receive damages for any injury he or she receives from an uninsured, negligent driver. The owner of the policy pays a premium to the insurance company to include this clause.
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Countries using older road-safety paradigms [8] replace KSI rates with crash rates – for example, crashes per million vehicle-miles. Vehicle speed within the human tolerances for avoiding serious injury and death is a key goal of modern road-design, because impact speed affects the severity of injury both to vehicle occupants and to pedestrians.
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Three blocks from where fellow Allman Brothers Band member Duane Allman had his fatal motorcycle crash [3] Don Rich: July 17, 1974: 32 Musician (Buck Owens and the Buckaroos) Bob Gassoff: May 27, 1977: 24 Canadian Ice hockey player Near Gray Summit, Missouri: Stanley de Silva: April 12, 1980: 23 Sri Lankan Cricketer Balapitiya, Sri Lanka: John ...