Prior to a recent Virginia Tech study published in 2016, the most commonly cited U.S. study of motorcycle crashes was the one known as the Hurt report. Researchers at the University of Southern California, led by Harry Hurt, went to motorcycle crash scenes to determine the causes. Unfortunately, that report came out in 1981, when cell phones were non-existent and motorcycles were far less powerful.
Riders could use updated information, so Revzilla put together a blog post and created this infographic that focuses on visualizing some informative data points from the study that was done for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. It calls out the top 3 risk factors that are likely to increase your chances of a motorcycle crash & 3 tips to help reduce your risk.
This study involved 100 riders from age 21 to 79 in California, Arizona, Florida and Virginia. With five video cameras and data-logging equipment on their motorcycles, these riders were recorded for a total of 366,667 miles for these data points.
