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Originally Posted by VaFish
While it seems like a good idea on the surface, do some comparison of motorcycle accident rates. England has a very similar licensing scheme to Japan and their motorcycle accident and death rate is higher than here in the US.
Heck just here in the US if you compare the accident and death rate of people who taught themselves to ride vs graduates of the MSF course the accident and death rate is almost identical, the only group that has higher accident rates are the ones who were taught by friends or family how to ride.
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This just shows we need better MSF programme.
Depending on data you use, it may be interpreted in different ways. For example:
U.S. reports motorcycle fatalities as 72.3 per 100,000 registered bikes
U.K. reports motorcycle fatalities as 328 total in 2012.
Going by straight total fatalities, we are much worse.
U.S. 2004-2014 = +4000 motorcycle deaths per year
U.S. 2007-2008 = +5000 motorycycle deaths per year
This is comparing apples and oranges without knowing total registered bikes in U.S. and U.K. Decrease in deaths after 2009+ is attributed to lower numbers of people riding fewer miles. A better metric would be fatalities per person per 100,000 miles or some such that equalizes mileage ridden per person.
Another example is autos, with 2000 deaths in U.K. versus 30000 deaths in U.S. Even accounting for 5x larger population of U.S. versus U.K., that still makes us much, much more dangerous. Then again, comparison doesn't include mileage, which I think is really a requirement to make comparison more valid.
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...n_U.S._by_year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety
http://www.bikelawyer.co.uk/bike-accident-statistics