From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!hogpc!hsc
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Title: Re: motorcycles dangerous? - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hogpc.88
Posted: Wed Mar 16 14:19:06 1983
Received: Wed Mar 23 02:11:12 1983
References: zehntel.831

Statistics and accident studies show that most fatalities fall into one
or more of the following categories:
	-no valid motorcycle driver's license.
	-not own bike.
	-less than one year riding experience.
	-using alcohol or drugs.
	-no helmet.
	-at or near intersection.
	-below 50 mph.
In general, people get killed because they are inexperienced,
impaired (alcohol etc.),  or risk-loving (no helmet, probably correlated
with other risk-taking behavior), and because they tangle with a car.
The safest place per mile or per hour is a limited-access highway;
cars are less likely to drive over you.  All those who love to push
it to the limits on public roads, please feel free to flame away about
how your high level of skill compensates for your risk-taking.
	A sober adult with more than a year of riding experience
and wearing a helmet is about as likely to be killed as the average
grunt in a car without a seatbelt.  I find that an acceptable personal
level of risk on my bike (I ALWAYS use the seatbelt in a car);
others may prefer more or less.