New Crash Causation Study - Update from Steve Cohen

At Bikesafer.com, we are very interested in the new bike crash causation study. We think that better information will help produce better decisions, from the federal level to the individual biker. The out-of-control biker death rate might improve. We wrote our House Rep, Steve Cohen, who is on the Transportation Committee, and he sent us a considered and informative reply, which we link to near the end of this bikesafer.com page.

We have a list of Transportation Committee reps and their contact details on that same page. If you feel inspired to let them know how you feel on the matter, here's some talking points:

• Bikers have already paid for the study via fuel taxes and what we pay for motorcycles.
• We might have 10,000 biker deaths per year in another decade if nothing is done to stop the rising road death toll.
• The Hurt report was instrumental in reducing the death rate by a third in its time.
• Congress promised $2.8M if the industry matched the funds. The industry came up with more than the money Congress asked for, now Congress is renaging by cutting its share to 2.1M. They are welshing on their own deal.
• The study is shovel ready.
  

This is the time to put pressure on the politicians and get some good information on motorcycle safety.