Older Riders Add to Rise In Motorcycle Fatalities

[MMiz]

Older Riders Add to Rise In Motorcycle Fatalities

Margit Showalter's son lost his life in a motorcycle accident. He wasn't a young kid out being reckless; he was a 41-year-old construction worker riding on a suburban Florida street on a sunny day in January.

Michael Showalter's age made him part of a deadly trend on U.S. highways, with over-40 riders accounting for a significant increase in motorcycle fatalities nationwide.

More than 3,900 people died on motorcycles in the United States in 2004, up 7.3 percent from the year before, according to preliminary highway safety numbers released yesterday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That's the seventh straight year of increases in motorcycle deaths on U.S. roadways, for an 85 percent overall rise since 1997

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[Jon]

Originally posted by MMiz@Apr 24 2005, 10:19 PM
Older Riders Add to Rise In Motorcycle Fatalities

Margit Showalter's son lost his life in a motorcycle accident. He wasn't a young kid out being reckless; he was a 41-year-old construction worker riding on a suburban Florida street on a sunny day in January.

Michael Showalter's age made him part of a deadly trend on U.S. highways, with over-40 riders accounting for a significant increase in motorcycle fatalities nationwide.

More than 3,900 people died on motorcycles in the United States in 2004, up 7.3 percent from the year before, according to preliminary highway safety numbers released yesterday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That's the seventh straight year of increases in motorcycle deaths on U.S. roadways, for an 85 percent overall rise since 1997

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Ok....

I just found this.


Is it that the bikers are not as resiliant as the young kids? or just that there are more bikes on the road?

 

[Stevo]

welp, i'd be one of those catagorized in the article. I will mention that i recently attended a state sponsored course on proper biking, great course for those whom respect the concept of training and all....

guess i'm just born to be mild

~S~

 

[CodeSurfer]

I'd rather be mild than wild and in a level 1 trauma center strapped to a backboard.

 

[Stevo]

2nd that CodeSurfer ,
and while one might catch a bit more air w/o a helmet i think i'll keep mine on...

in fact, many states that require dot helmets don't pull over and check those paper thin jobs, just like many states that require seatbelts won't pull you over

~S~

 

[rescuecpt]

The guy I'm seeing wants a motorcyle... but being a paramedic every time he decides to go to the dealer and look, he ends up working a motorcycle accident right around then and reconsiders.

 

[TTLWHKR]

Originally posted by Stevo@Jun 19 2005, 05:43 AM
2nd that CodeSurfer ,
and while one might catch a bit more air w/o a helmet i think i'll keep mine on...

in fact, many states that require dot helmets don't pull over and check those paper thin jobs, just like many states that require seatbelts won't pull you over

~S~

PA doesn't require helmets, or any protective clothing. I categorize them like so; Smart - Stupid. Some are killed in each category. Always been older people.. 40's-60's.

 

[CodeSurfer]

Originally posted by TTLWHKR+Jun 19 2005, 10:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TTLWHKR @ Jun 19 2005, 10:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Stevo@Jun 19 2005, 05:43 AM
2nd that CodeSurfer ,
and while one might catch a bit more air w/o a helmet i think i'll keep mine on...

in fact, many states that require dot helmets don't pull over and check those paper thin jobs, just like many states that require seatbelts won't pull you over

~S~

PA doesn't require helmets, or any protective clothing. I categorize them like so; Smart - Stupid. Some are killed in each category. Always been older people.. 40's-60's. [/b][/quote]
Natural selection at it's finest.

 

[Stevo]

a darwinian CodeSurfer ?

well ok, no skin....

of course the thread begs the Q, does one believe big bro should impose oversight for all potential gene pool contestants , or should it be personal choice? ie.~ helmets, seatbelts, innoculations, national ID cards, and all manner of safety/security measures

i mention this because there's always someone whom would insist on extreemes (like microchips in our friggin' heads.... h34r: ) to be the goverments job

and my reply would be that one can't have security and freedom...

~S~

 

[rescuemedic7306]

Bikers without Helmets = Organ Donors

'nuff said

h34r:

 

[TTLWHKR]

All motorcycle riders should see what I did on the west bound PA T-pike one afternoon about four years ago. Nice hot sunny day, motorcycle club out for a ride. Ya know what a deer looks like when it gets hit by a semi @ 70mph?

Well, it started in the front. The fire three riders were fatally injured. One slammed down and skidded 175 yards w/ no helmet or protective gear on. The bike behind him went over the median at hit a semi head on. They estimate both going around 80+. The third hit the bike of the other and was thrown about 100'. The one who skidded along the road had no skin on the right side of his body, organs, blood and brain matter were draining still when we arrived. The guy who hit the semi, literally splattered. There as a cone shape on the road, blood that is, from the point of impact. At it's end, it was 36' wide. The body parts were founds hundreds of feet away. The last guy broke every bone in his body and his head was crushed inward to the thorax. It was nasty. Probably nothing would have saved any of them. But it would give cycle riders something to think about.

Yummy, eh?