Summer months bring increase in motorcycle crashes
Posted August 17, 2013 2:39 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Police are reminding drivers to be extra careful on the roads as an increase in motorcycle crashes is being seen.
VPD Sgt. Randy Fincham says too often drivers aren’t paying attention to who they’re sharing a lane with. “You’ll have drivers looking for a pair of headlights at night coming towards them, what they might not recognize at times is a single headlight coming in their direction is actually a motorcycle.”
Fincham says the rules of the road apply to motorcyclists just like they do to drivers. “It’s very important that the motorcycles do adhere to the speed limits. They don’t have the protection that a car has around them, so if they should happen to hit something, it doesn’t always end up the same way it does for a car.
Stats released by ICBC show that over a five-year average there are 2,200 crashes involving bikes and 42 riders are killed.
