The Scottish Government

2004

CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE: EXPOSURE DATA
LICENSED MOTORCYCLES
MOTORCYCLE TRAFFIC
CHAPTER FOUR: IN-DEPTH MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT DATA ANALYSIS 1992-2002
SUPPLIED DATA
CASUALTIES BY YEAR
CASUALTIES BY ROAD CLASS
SIZE OF MOTORCYCLE
MOTORCYCLE MANOEUVRE PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT
CASUALTIES BY MONTH
CASUALTIES BY TIME OF DAY
CASUALTIES BY DAY OF WEEK
ACCIDENTS INVOLVING MOTORCYCLES BY DAY OF WEEK AND TIME OF DAY
AGE OF MOTORCYCLE RIDER (DRIVER) AND YEAR OF ACCIDENT
CHAPTER FIVE: CLUSTERS OF FATAL AND SERIOUS CASUALTIES FROM 2000-2002
MAAP
CLUSTERS IN BUILT-UP AREAS
CLUSTERS IN NON BUILT-UP AREAS
CHAPTER SIX: DETAILED ANALYSIS OF FATAL AND SERIOUS ACCIDENTS
DATA SOURCES
DATA CODING
INDIVIDUAL CLUSTER ANALYSES
DAY OF WEEK
PRECIPITATING FACTORS
ENGINE CAPACITY
MOTORCYCLIST MANOEUVRE
RIDER AGE AND MOTORCYLE TYPE
LOSS OF CONTROL ACCIDENTS
'NON RIDER FAULT' ACCIDENTS
CHAPTER SEVEN: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
SUGGESTIONS / RECOMMENDATIONS for CAMPAIGNS
Annex 1: Tables of ACCIDENTS involving motorcycles
Annex 2: Tables of casualties involving motorcycles
Annex 3: Details of fatal and serious clusters
Annex 4: Detailed sheets for clusters
References

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Tom Lamplugh of Social Research at the Scottish Executive for his input to this project as the Project Officer and Chair of the Project Steering Group. We are also grateful to the members of the Project Advisory Group for their individual and collective inputs to the work. The Project Advisory Group comprised the following individuals:

The authors would also like to thank Scott Brand of the Transport Statistics Branch of the Scottish Executive for providing the 11 years of STATS19 data on motorcycle accidents in Scotland, without which the in-depth analysis presented in this report could not have been conducted. The provision of data from Police forces in Scotland for specific accidents was also essential for the qualitative analysis of accident data included in this report, and our thanks are due to the following for supplying these data.

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