Studies of accident statistics suggest that motorcyclists are particularly vulnerable to collisions with other vehicles which pull out of side roads onto a main carriageway, failing to give way to the approaching motorcycle. Why might this happen? The typical response of the car driver is that they looked in the appropriate direction but simply failed to see the motorcycle. To assess the visual...

Motorcycle is a popular mode of transportation in many developing countries, including Pakistan. Since the last decade, registered number motorcycles Pakistan has increased by six times, constituting 74% total vehicles. However, limited research efforts have been made to investigate motorcycle-related safety issues Thus, relationship between potential risk factors and injury outcomes motorcycle...

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the demographic characteristics of adult motorcycle riders with alcohol-related hospitalizations. METHODS Data obtained from the Trauma Registry System were retrospectively reviewed for trauma admissions at a level I trauma center between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2013. Out of 16,548 registered patients, detailed information was retrieved regarding 1...

Prior to 2016, motorcycle licensing in Victoria, Australia, required off-road (range) skills testing only, focusing on vehicle-handling skills. The objective of this research was to develop an education and assessment curriculum commensurate with best practice that included on-road components and increased focus on awareness, judgment, and decision-making skills. No single best-practice curricu...

This study assessed the degree to which hazardous vignettes are perceived as dangerous and realistic by car drivers and motorcycle riders (Exp. 1) and whether riders could be distinguished from drivers on their performance in a commercial motorcycle simulator during safe and hazardous riding situations using the same hazards (Exp. 2). In Experiment 1, car drivers and motorcyclists received a qu...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The coverage of the official statistics is poor in motorcycle and moped accidents. The aim of this study was to analyze the severity of motorcycle and moped crashes, and to define the degree of under-reporting in official statistics. MATERIAL AND METHODS All first attendances due to an acute motorcyclist or moped driver injury registered in the emergency department between...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among motorcycle rider helmet, alcohol use and the full spectrum of health outcomes following crashes. METHODS Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-sponsored Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) for Wisconsin, 2002, were used to study 2462 motorcycle crash victims. Logistic regression model...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of a revised Italian motorcycle-moped-scooter helmet law on crash brain injuries. DESIGN A pre-post law evaluation of helmet use and traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurrence from 1999 to 2001. SETTING Romagna region, northeastern Italy, with a 2000 resident population of 983 534 persons. PARTICIPANTS Motorcycle-moped rider survey for helmet use compliance ...

One of the key contributory factors for accident involvement is misjudgment of approach speed (Department for Transport, 2010). Past research has indicated that individuals can use the rate of visual looming in order to the judge time to passage (TTP) of approaching vehicles, and that smaller vehicles loom to a lesser extent than larger vehicles (e.g., Horswill et al., 2005). However, the judgm...