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Motorcycle safety. Motorcycle safety is the study of the risks and dangers of motorcycling, and the approaches to mitigate that risk, focusing on motorcycle design, road design and traffic rules, rider training, and the cultural attitudes of motorcyclists and other road users. Riding motorcycles on public roads carries several times the risk of ...
Hurt Report. The Hurt Report, officially Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures, was a motorcycle safety study conducted in the United States, initiated in 1976 and published in 1981. [1] [2] The report is named after its primary author, Professor Harry Hurt .
A memorial in the State of Michigan to a person who died in a motorcycle accident. The United States is exceptional in the way it approaches transportation safety. While aviation is considered at a federal level with the FAA, road safety lacks a strong, federally led approach. Road safety is considered by each of the states of the US.
5,172 [5] 89,000. † some NHTSA lists show 3,181. ‡ some NHTSA lists show 3,714. This is a list of numbers of motorcycle deaths in U.S. by year from 1994 to 2014. United States motorcycle fatalities increased every year for 11 years after reaching a historic low of 2,116 fatalities in 1997, then increased to over 5,000 around 2008 and then ...
The California Highway Patrol ( CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assist local and county ...
Road traffic safety. Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle ...
This is the list of Findings in section 12.1 (pages 416-419) of the Hurt Report . Throughout the accident and exposure data there are special observations which relate to accident and injury causation and characteristics of the motorcycle accidents studied. These findings are summarized as follows:
Crash preceded by or followed by heart failure. 2007 Noriyasu Numata (JPN) Okayama International Circuit; 2013 Kevin Ash, journalist, killed in South Africa while testing new BMW R1200GS; See also. Motorcycle safety; List of motorcycle deaths in U.S. by year; List of Billown Course fatal crashes; List of Daytona International Speedway fatalities