California Motorcycle Safety

What The Motorcycle Accident Statistics Show

It does not matter what set of statistics a rider looks at all of them make it clear that motorcycle helmet laws can save riders lives. In both government and private studies helmets reduced the number of serious accidents according to their research.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration not only has proof but also reports to Congress and their findings were that motorcycle helmets are approximately 67% effective in accidents in keeping riders from sustaining brain injuries.


• They also found that a rider without a helmet would sustain a brain injury three times more often than the rider with a helmet.


• They also estimated that during the years 1984 through 1996 helmets saved the lives of more than 7900 riders and had all riders been wearing helmets their estimate shows the lives of more than 14,500 lives could have been saved.

In another study the facts that were released by the U.S. General Accounting Office

• They found that riders wearing helmets have as much as an 85% reduced rate of being severely injured over riders who are not wearing helmets.


• According to their findings motorcycle riders who do wear helmets have as much as a 73% lower fatality rate than riders who do not wear helmets.


• In summing up their findings their report to Congress encouraged state laws enforcing bikers to wear helmets.

One other statistic was by the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and that shows motorcycle helmets can reduce motorcycle accident fatalities by approximately 29%.

If you or someone you love has been involved in a California motorcycle accident then you need Los Angeles and Orange County’s most experienced motorcycle accident lawyer who can be reached at the Ehline Law Firm at 888-400-9721.

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