Motorcycle Accident Statistics - Information on Motor Vehicle Collisions
May 11, 2009 @ 05:22 PM — by unknown
If a motorcyclist has an accident, he or she is more likely to die than a person in an automobile accident. This makes sense since a motorcyclist is more vulnerable than a person in a car or truck. Therefore, it is important to know and understand motorcycle accident statistics and avoid becoming one yourself. A number of these important statistics on motorcycle accidents are related below.
An estimated 70 percent of all motorcycle accidents are due to the failure of other automobile drivers to see the motorcyclists; this is usually a passenger automobile.
Nearly 25 percent of all motorcycle accidents are the result of a collision between the bike and either a stationary object or the road itself.
A punctured tire resulting in an accident involving only the motorcycle caused only 3 percent of motorcycle accidents. However, a vehicle failure causing an accident is quite rare. In most motorcycle accidents with only one vehicle, driver error was the biggest factor such as slide-o