Citation

Arzemanian S, Salatka M, Anderson CL, Kraus JF. J. Saf. Res. 1993; 24(2): 87-95.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The geographic distribution of fatal-injury motorcycle crashes for 1981 and newer model-year vehicles during 1983-1985 in three Southern California counties was determined. Exact crash sites were plotted on California Department of Transportation enlarged county road maps. The distributions of fatal crashes by location for racing and street-type motorcycles were generally similar. Racing prior to the fatal crash was identified in only 13 of the 441 crashes. Although the number of crashes for racing-design motorcycles compared with street-design vehicles was excessive, based upon 1985 registrations, there were no specific geographic locales with excess crashes by motorcycle design. The data suggest that the elevated crash occurrence of racing-design motorcycles does not predominantly result from their use for racing on canyon and mountainous roads.