Federal Highway Administration Launches New Study On Motorcycle Crashes
The Federal Highway Administration recently announced it will conduct “the first major in-depth analysis of motorcycle safety in nearly three decades.” The study will be conducted by researchers at Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma Transportation Center, which is one of the Department of Transportation’s 10 National University Transportation Centers. A provision in the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, EfficientTransportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users required the study, but its launch was delayed due to funding issues. Researchers plan to evaluate data from motorcycle crashes to help identify common factors, which FHWA officials said will be useful to find countermeasures. The last motorcycle causation study was completed in 1981 by NHTSA. In September, NHTSA concluded a pilot study on motorcycle crash causes and outcomes. DOT spokesperson Rae Tyson said completion of the pilot study was necessary to help OSU researchers establish research criteria for the upcoming study.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) per vehicle mile traveled in 2006, motorcyclists were about 35 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a motor vehicle traffic crash and 8 times more likely to be injured. Speeding, traveling too fast for conditions or in excess of the posted speed limit, is a factor in almost one-third of all fatal crashes and costs America approximately $27.7 billion dollars in economic losses each year. Speeding is a safety concern on all roads, regardless of their speed limits. Much of the public concern about speeding has been focused on high-speed Interstates. The Interstate System, however, actually has the best safety record of all roads and the lowest fatality rate of all road classes.
Motorcycle Safety Study
Collector roads usually have legal speed limits of 55 mi/h or less. Speed limits on local roads are often 35 mi/h or lower.
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