Last week,, it occurred to me that I really had not heard about as many recent local motorcycle tragedies. Then,, on Friday, a suv turned left in front of me,, and only some quick braking on my part saved my day,(luckily). So when I got home,,, I searched out information on the current season, and found this discouraging article. Over the past long weekend,, our area reports two more motorcycle fatalities where vehicles have turned left in front oncoming bikes, with the car drivers charged in both cases. Plus we have had very serious near misses within our ST community. A couple of things appear to be contributing to the steady increase in incidents. One,, distracted auto driving is now rampant,, and the single biggest cause of all road accidents,, recently surpassing dui's. 2ndly,,, we have a lot more bikes on the road, at least in our area. Finally,, driving skills continue to deteriorate,, even as car design continues to improve. Indeed many drivers would be significantly less dangerous driving fully autonomous vehicles. Till then,, I only see the incident rate and and insurance rates,,, continuing to climb. Cat'
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/2016-could-be-deadliest-in-5-years-for-ontario-motorcylists-opp-reports-1.3675752
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/2016-could-be-deadliest-in-5-years-for-ontario-motorcylists-opp-reports-1.3675752
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