American Motorcycle Association president and CEO Rob Dingman has urged the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to expedite a long-overdue federal study into the causes of motorcycle crashes.  United States Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and a motorcycle rider herself agreed.

There are more than 10 million motorcyclists on the road today, more than any time in history," said Dingman.  At the same time the number of deaths while riding a motorcycle increased 6.6 percent in 2007 from 2006.  The last comprehensive motorcycle crash study was performed in 1980.  "The idea behind the motorcycle crash causation study is to help us understand the causes of crashes so that effective countermeasures can be developed," said Dingman. "Absent this study, countermeasures will continue to be developed in a vacuum, with no way to know which measures will be effective."

The number of registered motorcycles in Utah has increased from 40,964 in 2004 to 64,376 in 2208 - an increase of 57 percent over 4 years.

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