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Motorcycle Accident Statistics & Numbers For 2023

Riding a motorcycle is undeniably dangerous. Sadly, motorcycle riders are 28 times more likely to lose their lives in a fatal driving crash compared with other motorists on the road. They are also four times as likely to sustain an injury in a collision.1 These motorcycle accident statistics shed
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This recent article, written in the spring of 2023 using statistics going back to 2020, has a lot of information about motorcycle crashes, fatalities, survival rates, helmet laws & the use of Helmets in preventing deaths etc.


One thing I did not find in here, but I was hoping to see, was a breakdown on the cops' allocation of responsibility for fatal or serious injury crashes.

----- My guess is.....
I'll bet that the CAGERS are at fault 80% of the time,

and 10% of the time the motorcyclist made a mistake (just being inattentive for a couple of seconds)

and the other 10% they was riding super aggressively and just asking to get killed.
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It seems every week I hear in the news about another motorcyclist / moped or scooter rider getting killed here in Atlanta. And so far every one that I've heard of, going back about a year now that I've been really paying attention to these incidents, the cager was at fault.

Of course Atlanta is a big metropolitan area with some thing like 8 million people living with in the area for which news coverage is broadcast on the main stream news...
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gunsmoker said:
now that I've been really paying attention to these incidents, the cager was at fault.
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Sometimes the reported details are misleading.
If, for instance, the bike was going 100 MPH in a 40 zone.........and a car pulled into it's path.........

I've spent a good bit of time in Atlanta and seen a lot of stupid bike riders.
But to be fair, a lot of dumb car driving too.
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