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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Everything I've ever read, including info I got when I was taking the motorcycle course, has been pretty clear that the majority of accidents for bikes are caused by other drivers. I don't have a link to anything so you'll just have to take me at my word. If you really want to see some data on this, just call any of the motorcycle schools in town as I'm sure they'll have it.
Add to that my annecdotal evidence based on a pretty wide range of bikers (you tend to meet a lot when you're one yourself) indicates the same. Is that annecdotal evidence worth anything? No more or less than yours.
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According to this
site you are correct. Not sure how accurate the information is, there is no sources to click on.
Approximately three-fourths of these motorcycle accidents involved collision with another vehicle, which was most usually a passenger automobile.
In the single vehicle accidents, motorcycle rider error was present as the accident precipitating factor in about two-thirds of the cases, with the typical error being a slide out and fall due to over braking or running wide on a curve due to excess speed or under-cornering.
In the multiple vehicle accidents, the driver of the other vehicle violated the motorcycle right-of-way and caused the accident in two-thirds of those accidents.
I recall from a book I was reading (blink, maybe?) that people in cars don't see the bikes because their eyes/brain are looking for cars and they actually don't process a bike being there. It's a similar effect to this
video, where people don't see the gorilla because they are looking for something else.
But that just makes me want to own a bike even less. Too much of it is out my control and the injuries from accidents are compounded because the only thing to cushion your fall is pavement or metal.