Helmets save motorcycle riders’ lives.
Preventing serious injuries and deaths from motorcycle crashes is a major and growing public health concern.
Consider that:
- Motorcycle crashes killed 4,502 people in 2010.
- Motorcycle-related deaths have increased by 55% since 2000.
- Motorcycle crash-related injuries and deaths totaled $12 billion in one year, in medical care costs and productivity losses.
The good news is that riders’—and their passengers’—can protect themselves by wearing helmets. Helmets are estimated to prevent 37 percent of crash deaths among motorcycle riders and 41 percent of crash deaths for motorcycle passengers.
