Accident Injury and Fatality Stats Jump for Florida Motorcycle Riders

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has reported a 15% increase in injuries and fatalities among Florida’s motorcycle riders since 2011, and the trend is worrisome.
 
Motorcycle Accident Injury Lawyers
Motorcycle Accident Injury Lawyers
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - March 13, 2014 - PRLog -- Some disturbing trends in traffic statistics are being reported by the Florida Department of Transportation, or FDOT, and the Sunshine State’s motorcycle riders and enthusiasts are on the receiving end of the bad news.

Since at least 2011, the number of injuries and fatalities relating to motorcycle accidents on the streets of Florida has increased by 15%. The grim trend begins only three years after legislatures put in place new motorcycle safety and training programs that riders are now required to undergo before being allowed to sit for their designated motorcycle license, which helped stymie the explosion of injuries and deaths in the wake of the 2000 law repealing motorcycle helmet laws.

The reasons behind the growing number of injuries and deaths relating to motorcycle crashes is unknown, but a group of motorcycle personal injury lawyers in West Palm Beach, FL. took time to put forward  couple of possible explanations in an article posted on their website on this very subject.

Those explanations, the lawyers try to infer in the text, could include a combination of factors, like the time of year of the accidents, proximate relation to local bars, festivals, and events that tend to attract motorcyclists, and of course, the lax (or lack of) helmet laws.

By bringing light to the statistics, and the possible causes driving them, the lawyers hope to raise some awareness to this issue not only for the sake of their clients, who are indeed injured or killed motorcyclists, but for the sake of everyone on the road.

Once thing is for sure – once a pattern like this starts, it’s a mountain of work by and between the riders, Florida legislatures, counties, municipalities, and other drivers on the road that needs to be done to begin reversing the statistics and make our roads safer. But if that means one less biker is injured or killed, it’s worth it.

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