How many crashes before Sunday evening?

[Baggsy]

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[AFJ]

This stat needs context. The reason most accidents happen close to home is because those are the roads you drove most often.

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[TK4]

"In the 1990-91 Ontario Fatal motorcycle accident study, out of the 121 Ontario-resident riders the average straight-line distance from their home was 14.3 km. The range of distance from home was from 20 metres to 180 km. 10 of the accidents were 1 km or less from their home, 58 were between 1 and 5 km from home. 18 of the accidents were 5 to 10 km away and 13 were 10 to 20 km away, 16 were 20 to 50 km away, 4 were between 50 and 100 km away and 2 between 100 and 200 km from the rider's home. 2 more cases were out-of-province, one from Quebec and one from Illinois."
"80% of the 123 accidents in this study took place less than 20 km from the rider's home. In the Hurt study, 81.8% of the 898 cases were found to occur after 30 minutes or less riding time."

That's 30+ years ago, an update would be helpful ?

 

[GreyGhost]

That's 30+ years ago, an update would be helpful ?

It sounds like it was grass roots analysis. Those that did it 30 years ago probably don't want to (or can't) do it again. As with most of these studies, I really want to know if 80% of the riding was within 20 km of home or 82% of the rides were 30 minutes or less. Those are really hard to come up with reliable data for but I suspect that for most people, what we are really saying is that they ride 80% of the time close to home. The important metric is crashes/km close to home vs far from home and I have never seen anyone produce that metric.

 

[AFJ]

It sounds like it was grass roots analysis. Those that did it 30 years ago probably don't want to (or can't) do it again. As with most of these studies, I really want to know if 80% of the riding was within 20 km of home or 82% of the rides were 30 minutes or less. Those are really hard to come up with reliable data for but I suspect that for most people, what we are really saying is that they ride 80% of the time close to home. The important metric is crashes/km close to home vs far from home and I have never seen anyone produce that metric.

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[Lightcycle]

The 80% within 20 km of the home address was data from the Ontario police reports filed with the gov't. All these were fatal accidents so the riders could not be questioned as to whether they had been headed back to home or away from home. Or for how long they had been out riding. All one can say is that the fatal accident occurred within 20 km of the rider's home address. The 82% ride time of 30 minutes or less was from the American "Hurt" study and was obtained by interview of the about 840 + riders who were interviewed after their non-fatal accident. 52 of the 898 "Hurt" study cases had been involved in accident fatal to themselves and, of course, could not be interviewed.

Being closely involved with the analysis of the Ontario study all those years ago, what struck me most about the data was that, if we considered the 5 basic requirements to be a motorcyclist as 1) licensed to ride a motorcycle, 2) the motorcycle being ridden is insured, 3) the rider is wearing a motorcycle safety helmet, 4) the rider is obeying the speed limit on the road, 5) the rider is not intoxicated by alcohol, the data indicated that 66% of the riders killed were violating one or more of those 5 requirements.

65% of the accidents involved another vehicle. The "direction of threat" from which the other vehicle appeared was 76.5% from ahead, 4.9% from the left, 12.3% from the right and 6.2% from behind. 35% of all fatal accidents resulted from the motorcycle running into the back of a slower vehicle ahead going slower than the motorcycle. 22.5% of the accidents happened when a motorcycle going straight ahead was struck by an oncoming vehicle trying to make a left turn.

AFJ

Good breakdown, thanks for this!

 

[Brian P]

Being closely involved with the analysis of the Ontario study all those years ago, what struck me most about the data was that, if we considered the 5 basic requirements to be a motorcyclist as 1) licensed to ride a motorcycle, 2) the motorcycle being ridden is insured, 3) the rider is wearing a motorcycle safety helmet, 4) the rider is obeying the speed limit on the road, 5) the rider is not intoxicated by alcohol, the data indicated that 66% of the riders killed were violating one or more of those 5 requirements.

Uh oh. I'm in trouble. Within a rounding error of 0% of my riding, and driving, "is obeying the speed limit on the road". (basically only while accelerating up through it from a stop, or slowing down through it on the way to a stop ...)

That said ... (knock on wood) ... I've done something over half a million km of riding on the street, and at least a million km driving, and I'm still here, so far. (It's one thing to not be "obeying the speed limit", quite another to be exceeding it by a large factor - that's something I avoid doing)

The "obeying speed limit" criteria loses relevance when speed limits are set so low that the vast majority of the general public exceeds them practically all the time.

IIRC the Hurt report found that a big percentage (forgot how much) of riders in serious crashes were either unlicensed, uninsured, untrained, or intoxicated. I don't recall what it said about helmet use, given that not all US states require their use.

 

[AFJ]

Uh oh. I'm in trouble. Within a rounding error of 0% of my riding, and driving, "is obeying the speed limit on the road". (basically only while accelerating up through it from a stop, or slowing down through it on the way to a stop ...)

That said ... (knock on wood) ... I've done something over half a million km of riding on the street, and at least a million km driving, and I'm still here, so far. (It's one thing to not be "obeying the speed limit", quite another to be exceeding it by a large factor - that's something I avoid doing)

The "obeying speed limit" criteria loses relevance when speed limits are set so low that the vast majority of the general public exceeds them practically all the time.

IIRC the Hurt report found that a big percentage (forgot how much) of riders in serious crashes were either unlicensed, uninsured, untrained, or intoxicated. I don't recall what it said about helmet use, given that not all US states require their use.

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