VOICES

Despite the seemingly serious threat caused by speeding motorcycles, the fact is (according to the “Hurt Report” – the definitive study on motorcycle accidents) that in two-thirds of the crashes when a motorcycle collides with a car or truck, it is the driver of the car or truck who violates the motorcyclist’s right-ofway causing the accident; typically at an intersection, and typically at speeds of under 25 mph. And as for “200 mph motorcycles,” the incidence of crashes at speeds above 85 mph is one-in-a-thousand. A problem – yes; but hardly one requiring new legislation.