Motorcycle Crash Causes

Approximately one-third of all accidents do not involve another vehicle. Inexperience, dangerous roads, bad weather, obstacles or hazards on the road and other non-optimum conditions can lead to dangerous and deadly accidents. This leaves approximately two-thirds of all accidents involving one or more other vehicles. Many of these cases result in fatal injuries, requiring that a wrongful death claim be filed on behalf of the bereaved family. At the top of the list of causes of motorcycle accidents is the failure to register the presence of the motorcycle.

The car, truck or bus driver may be distracted by something inside the vehicle, or by something outside. Although drunk driving accident numbers may be down-trending, intoxication from alcohol or drug use remains a serious danger to everyone on the road. The aggressive driver who speeds or ignores the right of way of others causes collisions which can result in severe injuries. The opening of a car door which swings into the path of the bike has become a more common hazard in recent years.