Citation

Kraus JF, Anderson CL, Hemyari P, Zador PL, Sun G. J. Traffic Med. 1992; 20(1): 5-13.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine)

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Abstract

The arrival of a new type of high-performance racing design motorcycle coincided with an unusually large increase in fatal motorcycle crashes in California from 1983 to 1986. This report compares driver, vehicle, and crash characteristics among crashes involving motorcycles of different designs using California crash data for 1985. No systematic evidence that injury crashes involving racing and street design motorcycles differed by time, day, or location of occurence was found, and motorcycles did not appear to have different exposure miles by either design type.