2014 was a bad year for fatalities.

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Interesting, loss of control or speed were only listed as factors in 14 out of 32. I would have expected a higher percentage. I guess the rest are left turners?

Take care out there people.


http://www.am980.ca/2015/05/12/motorcycle-orv-deaths-opp/Motorcycle Deaths Hit Nine-Year High in Ontario in 2014

London, Ontario, Canada / (CFPL AM) AM 980
May 12, 2015 06:42 am
Motorcycle Deaths Hit Nine-Year High in Ontario in 2014
Ahead of the unofficial kickoff to summer, easily one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, the OPP are sharing some alarming statistics about motorcycle deaths.

They hit a nine-year high last year, after a total of 32 people lost their lives in motorcycle crashes on OPP-patrolled roads.

The OPP released the statistics on Monday ahead of Canada Road Safety Week, which begins Tuesday and runs until Victoria Day.

While last year saw a surge in motorcycle deaths, there was also a significant drop in off-road vehicle deaths.

They hit an 11-year low in 2014, when 11 people died.

According to the OPP, both motorcycles and off-road vehicles put their drivers at a higher risk of death than those driving traditional vehicles.

Neither has seatbelts, so drivers are almost always ejected in the event of a crash. That’s one of the most harmful if not fatal things that can happen during a collision.

All of the people who died last year during a motorcycle or off-road vehicle crash were ejected. The OPP note that victims ejected from the vehicle become a flying projectile traveling at the same rate of speed as the vehicle was traveling at the time of the crash. It’s the same rate of speed when your makes contact with whatever surface/object (e.g. windshield, pavement, rock, tree, etc.) breaks your flight after you are ejected.

Another common link is that losing control and/or speed is usually the biggest factor in these fatal crashes.

Six of the 11 victims in last year’s fatal off-road vehicle crashes lost control of the vehicle, while loss of control and/or speed were factors in 14 of the 32 motorcycle deaths.

The OPP stress that wearing an approved helmet gives motorcyclists and off-road vehicle drivers a better chance of avoiding serious head injury and death in the event of a crash.

Between 2010 and 2014, almost half (36) of the 74 riders who died in off-road vehicle crashes were not wearing a helmet at the time.
 
yes riding has some risk, when things go bad, we are at greater risk than a person in a car. The article is ridiculous.

How many more rides are there? How many of the fatalities were single vehicle? Can we assume that the ones that were not rider error were driver error in the other vehicle?
 
Really riders get "ejected" It must have taken a gov't bureaucrat weeks to draw that conclusion. I also ATV, but very few of us die on them, (especially compared with sleds).

Last Saturday I was at event and spoke to the soon retiring head of the OPP S.A.V.E team. He said the main issue they have with atv riders and "some" bike Riders is males over the age of 40 not doing up thier helmets. This is the leading cause of injury and death, (when the lid rolls off on first impact).
 
OK so we hit a 9 year high....how is the registration of motorcycles in Ontario increased in that time frame? Is there more bikes? Less bikes? Steady?

If there are more riders it stands to reason that accidents/km travelled also increase.
 
GreyGhost said:
Between 2010 and 2014, almost half (36) of the 74 riders who died in off-road vehicle crashes were not wearing a helmet at the time.
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GreyGhost said:
Between 2010 and 2014, almost half (36) of the 74 riders who died in off-road vehicle crashes were not wearing a helmet at the time.
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My understanding is we reviewing the scene, If a motorcyclist I found with no helmet on, this statistic gets +1, if the helmet comes off in a collision for some reason and is plainly visible that it was on the rider it still gets tagged to the "not wearing a helmet" statistic. Please refute this if you have more knowledge than me.
 
hedo2002 said:
...Last Saturday I was at event and spoke to the soon retiring head of the OPP S.A.V.E team. He said the main issue they have with atv riders and "some" bike Riders is males over the age of 40 not doing up thier helmets. This is the leading cause of injury and death, (when the lid rolls off on first impact).
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On a semi-related note, I see so many - sooooo many - bicycle + e-bike riders who are wearing helmets with the straps undone and dangling on the sides like it's some lame fashion statement.

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mindactivated said:
On a semi-related note, I see so many - sooooo many - bicycle + e-bike riders who are wearing helmets with the straps undone and dangling on the sides like it's some lame fashion statement.

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Yup, see those all the time! On another note, I actually saw a police cruiser pull over and hold while they wrote a ticket to an e-scooter rider on Lakeshore a week ago...wonder what he did...
 
suzuki2000 said:
yes riding has some risk, when things go bad, we are at greater risk than a person in a car. The article is ridiculous.

How many more rides are there? How many of the fatalities were single vehicle? Can we assume that the ones that were not rider error were driver error in the other vehicle?
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It's funny, but universally, 40% of fatal crashes across several countries are single rider, loss of control.

The prime age range of increase in Ontario 2014 is >45, over 1000cc, ie. the Wild Hogs effect.

Here's the US data on registrations, but its skewed by states who don't have helmet laws and much higher fatality rates:

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2014 had 211,294 motorcycles in Ontario (1/3 of all of Canada).

from 2009, # bikes on road increased 13%, while cars were only up 9%.

32 deaths in 2014, up from 26 in 2012. 6 is hardly a "surge", when that number gets down to 17 some years.

I wish the OPP would just tell the goddamned TRUTH about motorcycle deaths:

While the trend’s causes are still being investigated, the OPP said the newly released data dispels several motorcycling myths, such as younger, inexperienced drivers are most vulnerable. According to the OPP, only 16 of the 175 motorcyclists who died since 2008 were under age 25. Almost half the victims were between 45 and 64.

What percentage do you want to bet were on Harleys?
 
"They hit a nine-year high last year, after a total of 32 people lost their lives in motorcycle crashes on OPP-patrolled roads."

This doesn't count any fatalities on non-OPP-patrolled roads.
 
Twice already I've seen horrible lane positioning, and laugh at the thought of these motorcyclists likely always complaining about how traffic always cuts them or moves into their lane.

One was on an older honda with a passenger riding in the middle of the lane and/or wrong blocking position. The other one was today. An older male on one of those ugly victory cruisers riding along in the wrong blocking position on the highway closely behind the vehicle in front of him. I tested it myself with him. Couldn't seem him for the LONGEST time in my mirrors.
 
Oh here we go. The good old OPP creating a crisis for media with a pile of convenient exaggerations about motorcycle carnage so they can push their agenda. Last year was higher than the previous 9 years, but those years were the LOWEST FOR MOTORCYCLE FATALITIES IN HISTORY. So, while last year saw a rise in fatalities it was NOT a bad year for motorcycles historically, far from it in fact. The numbers are all in the Ontario Road Safety Annual Report. We covered a thread on this topic last year. Don't trust anything the OPP says about motorcycles. They don't like them.


BTW, motorcycle fatalities often go up when the economy is good, as do fatalities in other areas. In 2005 we had a great year economically, and 68 motorcycle fatalities. When times are good risky behavior goes up.
 
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I was just thinking of this earlier in the week. Is there anywhere that the locations and stats are often and graphed out online?
 
kiwi said:
I was just thinking of this earlier in the week. Is there anywhere that the locations and stats are often and graphed out online?
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You can find it in bits and pieces on various government websites, but most of the data is not public.
For example, there is no police data on brands of bikes involved to crashes in Ontario, but the insurance companies have all that data.
It should be public.

Here's the Ontario Road Safety report for 2012.

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/publications/pdfs/ontario-road-safety-annual-report-2012.pdf

Roads are getting safer, regardless of what the OPP say. They need to justify their bloated budgets.

1964: 2.6M drivers, 1,424 killed.
2012: 9.5M drivers, 568 killed.
most dangerous drivers are still males 18-24

collision rate per million kilometers continues to drop, down to 1.36 from a 1988 high of 3.2, but you see a real drop when ABS cars became standard.

#1 thing hit by cars is utility poles and curbs.

#1 fatal crash scenario is still single vehicle (by far), #2 is approaching at light. 50% higher risk November to January, but then it drops in February, when idiots finally learn how to drive in snow.
#1 most dangerous time to be on the road is Friday, 4-6pm.
Victoria Day is the single most fatal holiday, almost twice all other holidays.

They break down all collision locations. keep away from Markham and Vaughan, over 5000 collisions in a single year.

Cars: 449 deaths, 59,000 personal injuries, bikes: 64 deaths, 1800 personal injuries. 6.6M cars, 228,000 bikes.
Pickup trucks: 114 deaths, 6,000 injuries -no surprise there.

Bike data starts on page 79:

deaths:
2003 46
2004 44
2005 68
2006 48
2007 48
2008 50
2009 38
2010 45
2011 36
2012 54

(so where does this "9 year high" number of 36 come from?? This is MOT official document, so this article is complete BS.)
20% of fatalities were either drunk or had been drinking, 46% over speed, loss of control, 35% single vehicle.
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