Early Hazard Perception Course

INTRODUCTION About motorcycle accidents Types of accidents Motorcycle accidents can be divided in three categories of about the same size: • No other vehicle involved: slipping, sliding off the road and so on: 29%, • Collisions with other vehicles: 60% of which o Collisions with other vehicles in the same direction of the traffic (30%), of which many rear-end collisions (motorcycle collides on the back of a car, 11%), o Collisions with crossing vehicles (30%). Causes and backgrounds