• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    It does because if you know you aren’t going to drive your bike when drunk (and other reckless driving factors) you will be safer than the numbers indicate.

    90% of the accidents being caused by unobservant car drivers won’t save you.

    You have a source for this or did you make up this 90% number on the spot? Would be nice to have actual numbers on this since elsewhere in the thread someone else is saying over half of motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle accidents, which means it’s biker could potentially have done something to avoid it.

    • theparadox@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Thirty-five percent of motorcyclist deaths in 2023 occurred in single-vehicle crashes, and 65% occurred in multiple-vehicle crashes.

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      The most harmful events in 2023 for 3,843 (60%) of the 6,432 motorcycles in fatal crashes were collisions with motor vehicles in transport.

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      An article noting some highlights