Motorcycle accidents cause a much higher incidence of death and injury per accident than do car accidents. In other words, if you're involved in a vehicular accident while riding a motorcycle, you are three times more likely to be injured and fourteen times more likely to be killed.
Helmet laws have been enacted in many states and are helping to reduce these numbers, but motorcyclists still are at greater risk of death or injury than those in passenger vehicles.
It is always wise to take precautions when riding a motorcycle:
- Wear a helmet and require your passengers to do so.
- Obey traffic laws, especially in regard to speeding, passing, and following too closely.
- Remember that you're not as large or as visible as an automobile, so do all you can to increase your own visibility, such as riding with the headlight on at all times and wearing reflective clothing after dark.
- Be sure you're able to control the motorcycle while carrying a passenger and insist that the passenger obey your directions.
- Road hazards have a much greater effect on a small two-wheeled vehicle, so watch for bumps, cracks in the road, loose gravel or any other condition that might cause you to lose control.
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