So far this year, at the time of writing, 52 riders had lost their lives on Queensland roads, making 2023 to date the deadliest year for motorbike riders for five years.
I have no doubt car drivers are causing lots of accidents with motorbikes, but living near a main road I find it hard to believe the riders aren't at least partially to blame for a decent number of those fatalities.
Unless there's a legitimate reason for bikes to be hitting like 20,000rpm on one wheel of course. I'm not a rider so maybe this is one of those "loud pipes save lives" type things I hear so much about, where being obnoxious is justified as safety.
Anyone got a breakdown of at fault versus not at fault fatalities?
I found some Vic stats from which you could infer some stuff:
https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/statistics/summaries/motorcycle-crash-data
It seems that it's a roughly half half split of single vehicle vs multi vehicle.
Even if you conservatively assume that only a quarter of the mutlivehicle accidents are the fault of the rider, it's still well over 50% motorcyclists killing themselves.
But that's not what this particular campaign is about.
I have no doubt car drivers are causing lots of accidents with motorbikes, but living near a main road I find it hard to believe the riders aren't at least partially to blame for a decent number of those fatalities.
Unless there's a legitimate reason for bikes to be hitting like 20,000rpm on one wheel of course. I'm not a rider so maybe this is one of those "loud pipes save lives" type things I hear so much about, where being obnoxious is justified as safety.
Anyone got a breakdown of at fault versus not at fault fatalities?
I found some Vic stats from which you could infer some stuff: https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/statistics/summaries/motorcycle-crash-data
It seems that it's a roughly half half split of single vehicle vs multi vehicle.
Even if you conservatively assume that only a quarter of the mutlivehicle accidents are the fault of the rider, it's still well over 50% motorcyclists killing themselves.
But that's not what this particular campaign is about.