This past May, as we observed National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, the news was sobering. Despite repeated campaigns to raise awareness about rules of the road and reinforce “share the road” messages, cyclists continued to suffer death and serious bodily injury at an alarming rate. Most accidents involved passenger vehicles failing to make allowance for cyclists—riding too close, cutting off lane splitters—and the cyclists always came out on the losing end.

The truth is that motorcyclists have always had the deck stacked against them. U.S. Department of Transportation statistics show that more than half of all multi-vehicle accidents involving motorcycles aren’t the cyclists’ fault, yet motorcycle drivers are 27 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to die in a motor vehicle crash and five times more likely to be injured.

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