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Compared to other motor vehicle accidents, fatal motorcycle accidents occur more often for a number of reasons. Motorcycles are less stable and less visible on the road and are therefore more likely to be involved in fatal motorcycle accidents. Motorcycles also offer considerably less protection on the road than passenger vehicles. For these reasons fatal motorcycle accidents occur twenty-six times more often than fatal car accidents.
In 2002, over three thousand people were killed in fatal motorcycle accidents. Since 1997 the number of fatal motorcycle accidents has increased by fifty-seven percent. Some of this increase in fatal motorcycle accidents correlates with a greater number of motorcycles being sold and rode on our nation''s roadways.
There are five types of fatal motorcycle accidents that are most common. In approximately forty percent of fatal motorcycle accidents the motorcycle runs off the road. One in five fatal motorcycle accidents involve the motorcyclist or another vehicle driver running a traffic control sign. Head on collisions account for eleven percent of all fatal motorcycle accidents. Fatal motorcycle accidents where a car turns in front of a motorcycle account for about ten percent of these deaths. The remaining percentage of fatal motorcycle accidents result from a motorcycle going down on the road.
Fatal motorcycle accidents are often the result of serious head injuries sustained by the motorcyclist. People who wear helmets while riding are sixty-seven percent less likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury than people who do not. Motorcyclists who wear helmets are thirty percent less likely to be involved in fatal motorcycle accidents than people who neglect to protect themselves. Less than half of the states in our nation have compulsory motorcycle helmet laws, yet twice as many cyclists in these states wear helmets as cyclists in states without mandatory helmet laws. People who do not wear helmets have a forty percent greater chance of being involved fatal motorcycle accidents.
Other fatal motorcycle accidents statistics reveal that specific factors prove to be common elements in these types of accidents. Ninety percent of all people killed in fatal motorcycle accidents are men, and nearly all of them were the motorcycle drivers, whereas when females are killed in fatal motorcycle accidents they are more likely to have been passengers. One in every four people who are killed in fatal motorcycle accidents do not have a valid permit to be operating their motorcycle.
The majority of fatal motorcycle accidents take place on roads other than highways. Fatal motorcycle accidents occur more often between the hours of three and nine pm, on the weekends, and in the summer months. Fatal motorcycle accidents are also much more likely when any of the parties involved in the accident are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Fifty percent of all fatal motorcycle accidents involve alcohol.
When a person is killed in fatal motorcycle accidents, their beneficiaries have the right to seek compensation in a wrongful death civil lawsuit if another party was responsible for the accident. A qualified lawyer can help you discover your rights and options in a case.
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