Deadly season for men on motorcycles in Southwestern Ontario 4 The road through summer can be paved with danger — especially for motorcyclists. More vulnerable than most vehicles, bikes can be a fun and economical way to get around but dangle extra risks even for careful drivers. Already this year, with the warm weather far from gone, a rash of recent crashes has driven the Southwestern Ontario death toll for motorcyclists on OPP-patrolled roads to seven, matching the same grim fallout to last year at this time. Besides those deaths, there’ve been dozens of near-fatal crashes — some, the fault of bike drivers but more often the fallout of other vehicles. Just this past Monday, a motorcycle and car collided at an intersection on London’s outskirts, leaving the motorcyclist with critical injuries. A passenger from the vehicle had minor injuries. That crash underlined a harsh reality of motorcycle-vs.-vehicle crashes: The biker almost always loses. “You have to remember that if you’re hit on a motorcycle, your chances of survivability are greatly reduced,” said OPP Sgt. Dave Rektor, a motorcycle rider himself until a few years ago. Some facts and figures about motorcycles on our roads, those who drive them and the toll they’ve left in the region this year.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:43:47 +0000
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