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Accident Age Rises.(Brief Article)

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| July 01, 2001 | Tuttle, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2001 Ehlert Publishing Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Motorcycle fatalities among riders 35 and older rose by 59 percent from 1994 to 1999, while federal statistics show that deaths for those 34 and younger fell by 22 percent during the same period, reports the Los Angeles Times. "These trends fly in the face of the conventional wisdom about who's getting killed on motorcycles," said Rae Tyson, a spokesperson for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Motorcyclists accounted for 2,472 of the 41,611 people killed on America's roads in 1999--about six percent of the total. During ...

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