THE ROLE OF INEXPERIENCE IN MOTORCYCLE CRASHES

REPORTED CRASHES INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE OWNERS WERE COMPARED WITH CRASHES INVOLVING BORROWERS. OF 1,230 REPORTED CRASHES INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY, 22.8% WERE ATTRIBUTABLE TO BORROWERS. BORROWERS HAD A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER PROPORTION OF NIGHTTIME CRASHES THAN OWNERS. BORROWERS IN TWO-VEHICLE CRASHES WERE FOUND TO BE TRAVELING SLOWER THAN OWNERS AND WERE CITED WITH A VIOLATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE CRASH MORE FREQUENTLY THAN OWNERS. BORROWERS IN SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASHES WERE MORE FREQUENTLY REPORTED TO HAVE CRASHED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO EXECUTE A TURN THAN WERE OWNERS. BORROWERS' CRASHES DID NOT DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM OWNERS' CRASHES WITH RESPECT TO SEVERITY OR PROPORTION OF SINGLE-VEHICLE AND TWO-VEHICLE CRASHES, NOR WERE DIFFERENCES FOUND BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS REGARDING ROAD AND WEATHER CONDITIONS OR LOCATIONS OF THE CRASHES. TWO INDEPENDENT QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS INDICATED THAT APPROXIMATELY 2% OF ALL MOTORCYCLE MILEAGE IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO BORROWERS. LENDING WAS FOUND TO BE ASSOCIATED BOTH WITH THE AGE OF THE OWNER AND THE SIZE OF THE MOTORCYCLE. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 27 Pp, 2 FiG, 12 TAB
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599
• Authors:
  • Barry, P Z
• Publication Date: 1970-4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Driver performance; Drivers; Knowledge; Motorcycles; Motorcyclists; Personnel performance; Questionnaires; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Experience
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223231
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 27 1970 12:00AM