Excerpts from article and study below. I don't want to copy/paste the entire article here.
A new study suggests motorcycles account for 10 per cent of all motor vehicle deaths in the province, and cost the health care system six times the amount of car crashes.
“(It) is not only the people who are misbehaving, but some of the patients we see in the emergency department are just unfortunate – they drive responsibly and it’s just intrinsically a more dangerous mode of transportation,” he explained.
We identified 26,831 patients injured from MCs and 281,826 injured from ACs. Mean MC- and AC-attributable costs were $5,825 and $2,995, respectively (p<0.0001). The rate of injury was triple for MCs compared to ACs (2,194 injured yearly/100,000 registered motorcycles versus 718 injured yearly/100,000 registered automobiles; IRR=3.1, 95% CI=2.8-3.3, p<0.0001). Severe injuries, defined as those with an Abbreviated Injury Scale >=3, were 10 times greater (125 severe injuries per yearly/100,000 registered motorcycles versus 12 severe injuries per yearly/100,000 registered automobiles
Read the whole thing at http://www.680news.com/2017/11/20/fatal-motorcycle-crashes/
Study here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/364956295/Motorcycle-Crashes-in-Ontario#from_embed
I was surprised mc injury rate was ~2%/yr. I expected higher.
The study is actually very interesting. Scribd sucks and doesn't play nicely with cut and paste. If adjusted for injuries per km instead of per year, the MC stats become an additional 5x worse than autos.
If anyone has a scribd account, grab that study before it disappears. It looks like it isn't supposed to be released yet and may disappear when the journal freaks out that they have been scooped.
EDIT: Baggsy found a link to the official published study (that is easy to download). The one above was a confidential peer-reviewed copy.
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/46/E1410
A new study suggests motorcycles account for 10 per cent of all motor vehicle deaths in the province, and cost the health care system six times the amount of car crashes.
“(It) is not only the people who are misbehaving, but some of the patients we see in the emergency department are just unfortunate – they drive responsibly and it’s just intrinsically a more dangerous mode of transportation,” he explained.
We identified 26,831 patients injured from MCs and 281,826 injured from ACs. Mean MC- and AC-attributable costs were $5,825 and $2,995, respectively (p<0.0001). The rate of injury was triple for MCs compared to ACs (2,194 injured yearly/100,000 registered motorcycles versus 718 injured yearly/100,000 registered automobiles; IRR=3.1, 95% CI=2.8-3.3, p<0.0001). Severe injuries, defined as those with an Abbreviated Injury Scale >=3, were 10 times greater (125 severe injuries per yearly/100,000 registered motorcycles versus 12 severe injuries per yearly/100,000 registered automobiles
Read the whole thing at http://www.680news.com/2017/11/20/fatal-motorcycle-crashes/
Study here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/364956295/Motorcycle-Crashes-in-Ontario#from_embed
I was surprised mc injury rate was ~2%/yr. I expected higher.
The study is actually very interesting. Scribd sucks and doesn't play nicely with cut and paste. If adjusted for injuries per km instead of per year, the MC stats become an additional 5x worse than autos.
If anyone has a scribd account, grab that study before it disappears. It looks like it isn't supposed to be released yet and may disappear when the journal freaks out that they have been scooped.
EDIT: Baggsy found a link to the official published study (that is easy to download). The one above was a confidential peer-reviewed copy.
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/46/E1410
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