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Dorset is blessed with great roads and stunning scenery which add to the thrill of riding a motorbike. However, the statistics show that motorcyclists are more likely to be injured in serious or fatal crashes than car drivers.
 
The facts

· 588 motorcyclists died and 6,737 were seriously injured on Britain’s roads in road collisions in 2007 (Source: Road Casualties in Great Britain 2007, Department for Transport, 2008)

· Around 25 per cent of motorcycle fatalities were crashes that did not involve another vehicle. Of the remaining 75 per cent, almost half involve a car driver looking but failing to see. (Source: Think)

· Motorcyclists make up just 1 per cent of total road traffic, but account for 19 per cent of all Great Britain's road user deaths (Source: Think)

· 118 people were killed or serious injured riding or driving a motorbike in Dorset between April 2007 and March 2008.

Whilst there are occasions when the weather or road plays a factor in a collision, these are becoming less frequent as modern technology allows us to engineer better vehicles and better roads. Most collisions now happen because of human error - a rider or driver doing something wrong, such as going too fast, riding too aggressively, unsafe overtaking or missing an important clue to what is happening ahead and failing to react.

So take responsibility yourself as the rider to avoid potential hazards rather than relying on others to avoid you.
 
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