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Year:
2013

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Volume:
17

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Issue:
2

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Article:
6
Safety Science Monitor
Introduction

The U.S. traffic safety community is concerned about the continuing increase in motorcycle crashes, in spite of the fact that all traffic crashes are in decline. Based on Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) records maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) a significant increase in the number for motorcycle fatalities took place in the 1997 to 2011 time period (Table 1).

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Author

TIMOTHY M. HALE

Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare and Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow

VIRGINIA P. SISIOPIKU

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

SHELIA R. COTTEN

Michigan State University, Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, College of Communication Arts and Sciences

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