what percent of motorcycle accidents result in injury or death?
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Motorcycle Accidents: Common Causes However, because motorcycles don't provide much protection to the rider, crashes involving speeding or alcohol are much more likely to result in death or serious injury. Collisions Between Motorcycles and Fixed Objects. Motorcycles colliding with fixed objects accounts for 25% of motorcyclist deaths, but just 18% of car crash deaths.
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Motorcycle safety The likelihood of injury is extremely high in these motorcycle accidents-98% of the multiple vehicle collisions and 96% of the single vehicle accidents resulted in some kind of injury to the motorcycle rider; 45% resulted in more than a minor injury.
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- Basic Facts About Teen Crashes. 1  Teens behind the wheel and their peer passengers account for one in every five deaths to 15 to 19-year-olds in the U.S.  Motor vehicle crashes kill nearly five times as many teens as cancer or poisoning.
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How Many People Die Horse Riding Per Year? On average, around 100 people per year die in horse riding accidents. Thousands more riders are injured. The majority of horse related accidents and deaths are due to brain injuries caused as the result of not wearing a helmet. In fact, it is estimated that 60 percent of horse riding deaths occur due to brain injury.
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- Drivers age 15 to 20 accounted for 9 percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2015 and 12 percent of all drivers involved in police-reported crashes. In contrast, young drivers accounted for 5.4 percent of total drivers in the United States.
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Car Accidents Involving Drugs and Alcohol 1 More than 65 percent of fatal single car accidents are alcohol-related. 2  Over 36 percent of auto accidents involving a pedestrian list the pedestrian as being alcohol-impaired. 3  The average blood alcohol content of drivers arrested for driving while impaired is .2 percent – more than double the legal limit.
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Road rage It is likely that those causing serious injury or death during road rage incidents will suffer more serious penalties than those applicable to similar outcomes from simple negligence. In April 2007, a Colorado driver was convicted of first-degree murder for causing the deaths of two motorists in November 2005.
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6 in 10 teen crashes involve distracted driving Federal research indicates roughly 11 percent of all highway deaths are the result of distracted driving. But a new study confirms what has long been feared, with the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety concluding that nearly 6 out of 10 moderate to severe teen crashes are the result of driver distraction.
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- Despite the general downward trend in overall. fatalities in recent years, pedestrian and motorcycle fatalities. have shown an upward trend. This was again the case in 2012, as motorcycle and pedestrian fatalities increased by 7 and 6. percent, respectively.
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California Traffic Safety Report Card Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities (fatalities in crashes involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 grams per deciliter (g/dL) or greater) dropped by 14.4 percent from 924 in 2009 to 791 in 2010. The 2010 figure is the lowest DUI death total ever.
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- Age: Young people are not the only ones dying in motorcycle. crashes. In 2010, more than half the people killed in motorcycle. crashes were 40 or older, up from 25% in 1995.1,2. Sex: While only 10% of riders killed in motorcycle crashes in 2010. were women, almost all passengers (89%) killed in motorcycle. crashes were women.2. Helmets: Forty-one percent of motorcycle operators and 50%.
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- About 20 percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths in fixed object crashes in 2014 involved ejection; 14 percent of the occupants killed were fully ejected, and 6 percent were partially ejected.
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Annual road fatalities 1 the number of fatalities decreased for pedestrians, pedal cyclists and car occupants, by 5%, 8% and 2% respectively, but increased for motorcycle users by 1%. 2  Over the same period motor vehicle traffic remained broadly stable, with a small increase of 0.4% between 2012 and 2013.
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Bicycle Accidents in Texas Currently, the average age for all injuries and deaths attributable to bicycle accidents is 32. Cyclists in the 45-54 age group have the highest fatality rate. In addition, the average age of fatal accident victims is 43. The highest injury rate is in the 16-20 age group.
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- Helmets are estimated to reduce the likelihood of death in a motorcycle crash. by 37%.23 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates. that helmets saved the lives of 1,544 motorcycle riders in 2010 alone.24. Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of motorcycle crash death.25 Even.
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Traffic accidents kill 1.24 million people a year worldwide; wars and murders, 0.44 million. The worldwide traffic fatality rate is about 17 per 100,000 people – 50 percent above the 11.4 percent in the U.S., and likely higher if a world figure for deaths per vehicle-mile were available.
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- This is an average of one death almost every half-hour. Drunk drivers were responsible for 30 percent of all fatal crashes during the week in 2003, but this percentage rose significantly over the weekends, during which 53 percent of fatal crashes were alcohol-related. The only way to prevent this type of accident is to not drink and drive.
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- Motor vehicle traffic crashes are the leading cause of unintentional injury-related death in the United States. Pedestrians are particularly vulnerable road users and disproportionally represented in motor vehicle traffic deaths.
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Traffic collision Worldwide, motor vehicle collisions lead to death and disability as well as financial costs to both society and the individuals involved. Road injuries resulted in 1.4 million deaths in 2013, up from 1.1 million deaths in 1990. About 68,000 of these occurred in children less than five years old. Almost all high-income countries have decreasing death rates, while the majority of low-income countries having increasing death rates due to traffic collisions.
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- In 2015, fatally-injured motorcycle riders between the ages of 35 to 39 had the highest rate of alcohol involvement (37 percent), followed by the 45 to 49 age group (36 percent). In 2015 motorcycle riders killed in traffic crashes at night were almost three times more likely to have BAC levels of 0.08 percent or higher (42 percent) than those killed during the day (13 percent).
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General statistics Deaths by road user. In 2013, the types of motor vehicle crash deaths varied across states. For example, North Dakota had one of the lowest percentages of deaths involving car occupants (28 percent) and the highest percentage of deaths involving occupants of SUVs and pickups (52 percent).
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- In 2010, alcohol was involved in 2,020 (or 47.2 percent) of pedestrian fatalities, 11,087 (or 39.9 percent) of vehicle occupant fatalities, 209 (or 33.8 percent) of pedal cyclist fatalities (as shown in Figure 2). Pedestrians are more vulnerable than highway vehicle occupants are.
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Motorcycle Crashes Cost $16B a Year: Report The total immediate costs of these accidents was about $16 billion. On average, a fatal motorcycle crash cost about $1.2 million, while non-fatal accidents cost anywhere from $2,500 to $1.4 million depending upon the type of rider injuries suffered, reports Autoblog. So what makes a motorcycle accident so costly?
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- Half of the world’s road traffic deaths occur among motorcyclists (23%), pedestrians (22%) and cyclists (5%) – i.e. vulnerable road users – with 31% of deaths among car occupants and the remaining 19% among unspecified road users. Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59% of global road traffic deaths.
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- Annual United States Road Crash Statistics. 1  Over 37,000 people die in road crashes each year. 2  An additional 2.35 million are injured or disabled. 3  Over 1,600 children under 15 years of age die each year.  Nearly 8,000 people are killed in crashes involving drivers ages 16-20.
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- Also of note, older teens are more likely to be involved in fatal crashes than younger teens. The decline in fatal crashes over the ten years was 56 percent for the younger teens, age 15 to 17, higher than 44 percent for teens age 18 to 20. In addition, older teens were twice as likely to be involved in a fatal crash between midnight and 6 am than younger drivers.
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Youâre not invincible The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed unintentional injury as a leading cause of death for men in 2006. This includes drowning, traumatic brain injuries, and fireworks-related mishaps. Motor vehicle death rates for male drivers and passengers ages 15 to 19 were almost twice that of females in 2006.