Belgium: Very Detailed Study Of Motorcycle Accidents

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Belgium: Very Detailed Study Of Motorcycle Accidents

<table cellspacing="0" align="left" border="0" width="110" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><div class="Pict"><img  src="http://photos.imageevent.com/motorbiker/icons/Icon-Stats.jpg" width="100" height="100" title="Statistics article" alt="Statistics Article" style="border:1px solid white;"></div></td></tr></table><table cellspacing="0" align="right" border="0" width="82" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/motorbiker/flags/be-flag.gif" width="79" height="55" title="Belgium flag" alt="Belgium flag" border="0"></a></td></tr></table>#Belgium #Accidents #Statistics - For the first time ever, the authorities in Belgium have spent a lot of time analyzing serious motorcycle accidents. They went and looked at 200 motorcycle accidents that resulted in deaths or badly hurt ones. The study, named MOTAC (Motorcycle Accident Causation), concentrated on accidents in 2009 (16% of the accidents) and 2010 (84% of the accidents).<br><br>

50% of the 200 accidents studied had deadly victims, the other 50% had very badly hurt victims.<br><br>

Something different from other accident studies; 56% of the accidents were initiated by the motorcycle rider, 41% by a third party. But as the report mentions, just because an accident is initiated by one vehicle, legally it does not mean that the biker is responsible. 3% of the accidents were caused by external problems, like bad road infrastructure (which IMHO seems low for Belgium who have a notoriously bad road network).<br><br>

<b>Single Vehicle Accidents</b>
35% of all the 200 accident involved only the motorcycle, meaning no other vehicles were involved. 90% of these single vehicle accidents were caused by the biker. This is usually because of a loss of control, sliding while braking (80%), while 58% of these single vehicle accidents happened in a curve........... <br><br>

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