8 Interesting Facts About Motorcycles
In the United Kingdom, the Department of Transport keeps complete records on a considerable
amount of different aspects of all vehicle usage and produces a detailed report on an annual basis for each individual vehicle.
For the 2009 report (known officially as the Compendium of Motorcycling Statistics), there were several interesting findings, with the following 8 points being the primary results from the report.
NB: The statistics relate to 2008 data, as the reports are essentially created a year in arrears. Therefore, the 2010 report, which is due in the coming months, will utilize data collated from 2009.
1. There were in excess of 1,300,000 motorcycles registered and therefore fully legal to be used on the road (on the assumption a motorcycle insurance policy is in place) in the UK
2. This figure of 1,300,000 registered motorcycles equates to around 1 motorcycle for every 300 homes in the country, unlike cars, where there is approximately 1 car for every 3 homes.
3. There were around 105,000 motorcycle tests taken throughout the year, with a mere 15 percent of them being undertaken by females, showing that the stereotypical view of a motorcycle being primarily a male orientated vehicle is, at least for the most part, true.
4. The amount of kilometres covered by motorcycles actually decreased by 8 percent in 2008, with only 5,100,000,000 kilometres covered, unlike the 5,600,000,000 kilometres that motorcycles covered in 2007
5. Thankfully, the past decade has seen motorcycle causalities decrease by almost 25 percent, to 1,131 for every 1,000,000,000 kilometres covered. Although this figure is still extremely high, it is promising that it is decreasing and is showing that people are becoming more and more aware of the potential dangers of motorcycle riding (in respect of both motorcyclists and other vehicle drivers)
6. A decrease of 6.2 percent was seen in the amount of motorcycles that were unlicensed and the figure now stands at 3.6 percent, unlike 9.8 percent from the previous year. Whilst 3.6 percent is still, somewhat unnecessarily, high, as with the casualty statistic, it is promising that it is continually decreasing and actually decreased so sharply from the previous year.
7. Across the board of vehicle users involved in an accident, 2.7 percent tested positive on a breathalyser test. However, this was almost half at 1.4 percent for motorcyclists, a statistic that was maintained from the previous 12 months.
8. Motorcycles, like the vast majority of other vehicles, are required by UK law to undertake an MOT test. Of those that were carried out in 2008, 81 percent passed first time and according to the available statistics from the Department of Transport, an 80 percent first time pass rate has been the average figure for the past ten years.
One of the key points of the report was that motorcycle usage is increasing in the UK. This can be associated with a range of different factors, such as more affordable motorcycles, a greater desire to travel in more economical ways or increasingly affordable and widely available motorcycle insurance policies.
by: Christopher Reinhold
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