Found this article. It speaks about car safety features, but it provides some very interesting information on motorcycle crashes. There's been some changes since the Hurt Report. Being rearended is no longer the second-place cause of motorcycle crashes.
Cars Are Now Safer For Motorcyclists, But When Do We See The Results?
I’m wondering if the author of that article is misunderstanding the data?
He says, “55% of motorcycle fatalities involved a collision with another motor vehicle. 42% of these accidents involved the driver turning left while the motorcyclist rode alongside them going straight.”
It’s hard for me to believe that this could be correct. I have not looked at the data, but in the past one of the most common crash types is a motorcyclist traveling straight through an intersection and an oncoming driver making a left turn across the path of the motorcyclist. My guess is that the data describes this situation but the author of that article thinks that what they are describing is a car and a motorcyclists driving side-by-side and the car driver turning left into the motorcyclist because he’s talking about lane control systems and blindspot monitoring neither of which would do anything in the typical intersection crash, which I described, and which I think is probably much more common. What do you think? Am I missing something?
