Topic: 2004 UK DOT Motorcycle Accident Study

[Klark Kent]

This looks to be a couple years old already, but i wasn't aware of such a modern accident study.  I thought the hurt report was the last in depth study and then there was the fell study which was done with police reports, but beyond fell and hurt (resisting the pun with all my might) this study refers to the results of several studies in the 80s and 90s.  the introduction is a little far fetched (read skewed against the modern motorcyclist) as far as the researchers point of view, but the results they are drawing from are interesting and many (so this will take a while to load in your browser)

i thought it would be of some interest here anyway.
-KK

[BobbyR]

It was interesting reading. Told by an old timer to wiggle the bike from side to side when encountering cars at an intersection. It seems to work and this quote from the report may explain that:

Perception experiments by Mack and Rock (1998) have also
shown that subjects may be less likely to perceive an object if they are looking at it
directly than if it falls outside the centre of the visual field, a phenomenon which
they call ‘inattentional blindness’. Brown (2002)

[nickjtc]

Perception experiments by Mack and Rock (1998) have also
shown that subjects may be less likely to perceive an object if they are looking at it
directly than if it falls outside the centre of the visual field, a phenomenon which
they call ‘inattentional blindness’. Brown (2002)

Could be true. I was doing a road test this am, in a full size pickup when another pickup started reversing out of his driveway in front of us, after looking in our direction.  He kept going even after we had passed behind him!!