Motorcycle
Stats & Facts
About 20 percent of all passenger vehicle crashes end up in injury or death, but almost 80 percent of all motorcycle crashes end up in injury or death.
Ninety-nine percent of the people who died in crashes involving a motorcycle on Missouri roads were the motorcyclist.
Missouri law requires all motorcycle riders to wear a DOT-approved helmet.
A rider without a helmet is 40 percent more likely to die in a crash than one with a helmet.
Passenger and Commercial vehicle drivers should remember the following:
- Motorcycles are vehicles with the same rights and privileges as any vehicle on the roadway.
- Allow the motorcyclist a full lane width. Do not share the lane.
- Fifty percent of all motorcycles involved in fatal crashes collided with another type of motor vehicle in transport.
