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Originally Posted by Burg
If I can choose to have a road with all drunk motorbike drivers OR one with all drunk car drivers, I would have made up my mind quickly.
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In light of recent events, the statement about motorbike drivers, "Sure they are drinking. But they can do relatively minor damage" seems both inaccurate and extremely insensitive.
In the US, almost every person drives a car(even most with motorcycles, who use them more for recreation than transportation). For a death to occur on a local street such as Nanai where the recent tragedy occurred, is almost unheard of in this country.
When all the vehicles involved in accidents are cars, then all the safety devices, i.e., seat belts, air bags, ABS brakes, and the fact that you have the protection of being surrounded by tons of steel to absorb the impact fo the collison, results in very few fatalities, except on freeways and highways.
When motorcycles collide with anything, bodies go flying, which can and does have dire consequences. Are motorcycles safer than cars? I don't seem how one can seriously pose such a question.
JayBee