‘Crotch Rockets’
Dangers posed by ‘crotch rocket’ motorcycles continues to explode, studies show
“Crotch rocket” motorcycle riders are four times more likely to die in a crash than riders of other motorcycles, according to the Insurance Information Institute (III). This is consistent with my own experience as a motorcycle accident lawyer, where we have a far higher percentage of attendant care claims for motorcycle accident victims who suffered injury riding crotch rockets.
That’s also why the January 2012 online publication, “Motorcycle Crashes,” reports that riders of “crotch rockets” (also called “supersports”or supersport motorcycles) have:
“[D]river death rates … nearly four times higher than for drivers of other types of motorcycles.”
Believe it or not, that news is worse than it sounds.
First, even though “crotch rockets” or “supersports” make up less than 10 percent of all registered motorcycles, they account for “more than 25 percent of
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