[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Feb-2002
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Contact: Colleen Horn
chorn@acep.org
202-728-0610 x3010
American College of Emergency Physicians

Recent trends in motorcycle fatalities

Two comprehensive analyses from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration of fatal motorcycle crashes show an increase of 35.3 percent since 1998.

The data show that most of the recent fatality increases have been among older riders—those 40 years of age and older. The analysis also found older riders—likely to be involved in a fatality—ride motorcycles with larger engines that have displacements of more than 1,000 cc.

The analysis also showed more motorcyclists were killed on rural roads than urban roads, and more than half of all motorcycle fatalities involved a collision with another type of vehicle.

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