Increase of motorcycle fatalities
The weekend of 21 and 22 May ten people were killed on Spanish roads. Five of them motorcyclists. Just two months earlier, in the third weekend in March, nine of the 15 people who gave their lives on the track driving a motorcycle. And fatalities in car accidents every month decline compared to previous years (currently 9.5%), this downward trend is not seen in motorcycle accidents. In fact, between 2003 and 2009 the decline in traffic fatalities was 50%. However, in the case of motorcycles, there was an increase of 22% road and 12% in urban areas.
2007 was the worst year for motorists, with 425 road deaths. The Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) developed a plan for this group was able to reduce the accident rate by nearly 40%. The figures, however, have gone out for a spin. Although the park motorcycles rose 3.9% in 2010, to April, 62 motorcyclists were killed on the roads, 14 more than the same period last year. Although the spring of 2010 was wet and, therefore, less bikes out this year, the DGT said the misuse of larger motorcycles as the main cause of accidents.
74% of the 438 motorcyclists killed in 2009 driving motorcycles over 500 cc. “Inclu-so in urban areas, where there were fewer accidents [123 to 325 Fente road], the large displacement motorcycles account for 56% of the total,” says the director of Road Safety Observatory, Anna Ferrer, who notes “the importance of training and supervision of the powers of the bikes.”
Safe driving
To that end, traffic will relaunch this June an information campaign to promote safe driving courses. This is a set of techniques designed to prevent motorcycle accidents “set the driver to resolve dangerous situations and avoiding risky behavior,” explains the DGT.
The class content is agreed by a working group comprising representatives of the DGT, municipalities, driving schools and motorcycle associations. The courses, which began last year, the school taught TAC, Honda Institute of Highway Safety and Motor Bikers Mutual Association. Voluntary classes combine a theoretical (not less than an hour and a half) with a practical (a minimum of four hours) and cost between 150 and 200 euros.
The courses are aimed at motorists who have long since pulled the permit and need to refresh forgotten concepts and those who get just the weekend on the road. Motera Mutua warns, however, that “motorists are responsible for accidents only 34%, according to several studies.”
Another commitment of the DGT for the formation, in this case focused on high-powered motorcycles, which account for most accidents, is the abolition of entrance examination to permit motorcycles A. Instead, drivers who already have the A2 card should make a theoretical-practical drive safely if they drive motorcycles over 500 cc.
“Training is key to reducing accidents,” coincides with the DGT Motera Mutual president, Juan Manuel Reyes, adding that “it is also essential to the adequacy of the infrastructure for vulnerable road users.”
The guardrails motorist insurance claim is the largest of this group. And now that the Plan of Safety Barriers in State Road Network for 2008-2012 “has been paralyzed because of the crisis,” complains the association. “We should have 3,000 miles of safe guardrails and still not reach 1,500,” said Reyes, who says: “On 18% of motorcyclists killed in an accident do after crashing into a guardrail.”
Motera Mutua said that the cost of the installation of guardrails insurance accounts for 0.5% of the total value of a road and that through these mechanisms could prevent 150 deaths a year. The Ministry of Development, however, denied that the plan is stopped Safety Barriers and noted that “in those points considered most at risk” are safe installing flush barrier, while the old guard rails and existing roads are “substituting as the possibilities.”
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