Motorcycle riders account for more fatalities than the passengers of any other vehicle type involved in a guardrail collision. In 2018, motorcycle riders accounted for 40% of all fatalities resulting from a guardrail collision.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1005: Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Factors Related to Serious and Fatal Injuries provides support for implementation of motorcyclist protection systems (MPS) in the United States.
Supplemental to the report are a presentation and NCHRP Web-Only Document 327: Serious and Fatal Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Injury Information.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Factors Related to Serious and Fatal Injuries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26785.
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