Latest Safety / Stat info stuff from California

mansfield

New member
Hi, Barfers! New member here but been reading for years.:afm199 Not sure if I should post this here but it seems like the best place.

I would like to ask if anyone knows why our state gobmint doesn't love us?... I found this online:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...nBSZfv7Ig&sig2=jM9D-fr-NROewcO36xV6wA&cad=rja

It is our state's overall plan for making traffic safety "safer". It looks like the state had a total of $96 million dollars this year for traffic safety. It is mostly federal money (go, Obama, dude!). And they gave to a huge number of organizations, like CHP and other police departments, Caltrans, etc. There are more than 300 individual projects. So far, so good, right? Well, they break it down by topic - alcohol, pedestrian, motorcycle, etc.

Guess how many motorcycle projects there were? Answer: 1
Guess how much of the $96 million they spent on motorcycle projects? Answer: $773,343

So... they have 96 million clams for traffic safety and spent less than 1 million on motorcycle safety???!!!

That is less than 1 percent (0.8%)... See pie chart on page 41.

What gives???!!! What about us??!!
 

Smash Allen

Banned
Hi, Barfers! New member here but been reading for years.:afm199 Not sure if I should post this here but it seems like the best place.

I would like to ask if anyone knows why our state gobmint doesn't love us?... I found this online:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...nBSZfv7Ig&sig2=jM9D-fr-NROewcO36xV6wA&cad=rja

It is our state's overall plan for making traffic safety "safer". It looks like the state had a total of $96 million dollars this year for traffic safety. It is mostly federal money (go, Obama, dude!). And they gave to a huge number of organizations, like CHP and other police departments, Caltrans, etc. There are more than 300 individual projects. So far, so good, right? Well, they break it down by topic - alcohol, pedestrian, motorcycle, etc.

Guess how many motorcycle projects there were? Answer: 1
Guess how much of the $96 million they spent on motorcycle projects? Answer: $773,343

So... they have 96 million clams for traffic safety and spent less than 1 million on motorcycle safety???!!!

That is less than 1 percent (0.8%)... See pie chart on page 41.

What gives???!!! What about us??!!

That is some great information. We should be able to use this somehow during a meeting with open floor or something.

"persona non grata" :|


I think that we motorcyclists are the persona non grata...the 'unwelcome person'
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
That is some great information. We should be able to use this somehow during a meeting with open floor or something.

I think that we motorcyclists are the persona non grata...the 'unwelcome person'

How about I bring it up tomorrow in my State Motorcycle Safety meeting with the OTS themselves.

Nice timing.. thanks.

Really kind of sad... :(
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
So how'd that go?

Here is a report on my effort.http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=491747&highlight=NHTSA+Summit

See post #10.
A couple of key players are positioning to change the ratio of death to $$ as far as the NHTSA $$ distribution to the CA OTS. That will no doubt continue to be a challenge.

A couple of us on the MOTO SAFETY COMMITTEE are also working to try an get the extra CMSP $$$ cut loose so they can be used. That has been super frustrating for two years.
 

LittleBigGirl

Well-known member
Hi! FYI the first and third links are no longer active. Do you have the pages as pdfs or somewhere else?

I received the updated info from a member of the CA Mission 12 Moto Safety committee and Research / Analyst Guru from Berkeley and also a rider.
Basically: Tom with the Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC )

This stuff happens because the OTS cares and many hands helped create the amazing information that is now starting to come to us.

First up:
http://safetrec.berkeley.edu/special-groups/motorcyclists
The page has links to the 2 tools and to some other projects. Tom will be adding things as they learn more. This page will serve as the catch-all page for all things motorcycle...!!

Second an incredible tool:
http://tims.berkeley.edu/login.php?next=/tools/motorcycle/main.php

The mapping tool is ready for the motorcycle-riding masses...!!! :banana Users will need to create a free account so that they can understand who is using the site - riders, police departments, public health departments, etc.

and third:
http://safetrec.berkeley.edu/content/motorcycle-collision-data-tables

And the collision tables are above. They used SWITRS data for fatal or injury motorcycle collisions in California for years 2009-2011 and produced 16 data tables for each of the 58 counties and for each of the 75 most populous cities.

Guys like Data Dan will have some cool access and I know he has already done some review of this stuff and has been chatting with Tom.

The Mapping tool I looked at in its Beta form... you can find out where moto crashes occurred on your common routes and then pay more attention in those spots that may specifically be a bit more of a hot spot on your commute or rides. They tie to Google street views as well so you can look at the area and read the description. Smarter is better so please play with it and get smarter!!

Awesome stuff...!! :thumbup
 

DataDan

Mama says he's bona fide
Hi! FYI the first and third links are no longer active. Do you have the pages as pdfs or somewhere else?
The first was just a page tailored to motorcyclists with links to the site's moto functionality.

I kinda remember the set of data tables available at the third link, but they don't appear on the site now.

The second link will take you to the map viewer, but you do have to register and sign in to see it. In addition to a map with an icon for each crash, the viewer produces a list of all crashes in a city in the specified time frame. You have to hit the "+" sign on "Collision List" below the map to see it.

I have recently reorganized my copy of the SWITRS database thru 2015 to more easily summarize moto-related stuff. If there's something specific you're interested in, I may be able to post a table or graph I already have or can produce quickly.

For info, here are a few of the data elements collected for every crash: date, time, location (city, county, road, milepoint, sometimes lat/lon), weather, crash severity (from fatal to non-injury), who was at fault, primary collision factor, type of collision (head-on, rear-end, etc.), types of vehicles involved. For each vehicle: driver age, sex, drug/alcohol use, injury severity, helmet, movement before crash, other contributing factors. There's not much about the motorcycle itself other than make.

Anything there you'd like to see?
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
I will talk to the SafeTrec gents and see what up.

Glad someone finally looked!!
 

LittleBigGirl

Well-known member
I am interested in all data except the "movement before the crash" because I am not entirely sure what that means.

Specifically I am interested in alcohol use, sex, and location if I had to pick a top three, but not necessarily those together. But the sex is only worth noting if we know how many riders out there are female versus male. I would assume that there are less female riders crashing than males based on sexist notions like aggression and lack of foresight, but there are generally less female riders on the road, so I am not sure how to quantify that.

The first was just a page tailored to motorcyclists with links to the site's moto functionality.

I kinda remember the set of data tables available at the third link, but they don't appear on the site now.

The second link will take you to the map viewer, but you do have to register and sign in to see it. In addition to a map with an icon for each crash, the viewer produces a list of all crashes in a city in the specified time frame. You have to hit the "+" sign on "Collision List" below the map to see it.

I have recently reorganized my copy of the SWITRS database thru 2015 to more easily summarize moto-related stuff. If there's something specific you're interested in, I may be able to post a table or graph I already have or can produce quickly.

For info, here are a few of the data elements collected for every crash: date, time, location (city, county, road, milepoint, sometimes lat/lon), weather, crash severity (from fatal to non-injury), who was at fault, primary collision factor, type of collision (head-on, rear-end, etc.), types of vehicles involved. For each vehicle: driver age, sex, drug/alcohol use, injury severity, helmet, movement before crash, other contributing factors. There's not much about the motorcycle itself other than make.

Anything there you'd like to see?
 

DataDan

Mama says he's bona fide
I am interested in all data except the "movement before the crash" because I am not entirely sure what that means.
It is motion immediately before impact, such as: "going straight", "turning left", "passing", "merging", etc.

Specifically I am interested in alcohol use, sex, and location if I had to pick a top three, but not necessarily those together. But the sex is only worth noting if we know how many riders out there are female versus male. I would assume that there are less female riders crashing than males based on sexist notions like aggression and lack of foresight, but there are generally less female riders on the road, so I am not sure how to quantify that.
I'll put something together in a day or two. For now, here are two from recent work:

Annual Bay Area crashes increased by one-third from the recession low in 2010 to 2015 (this includes all police-reported motorcycle crashes from non-injury to fatal). Which age groups were most affected?

picture.php



Crash lethality, the likelihood of a motorcycle crash killing the rider, differs by age group, as one might expect. But in California, with all of its geographic and demographic variation, it also differs by region:

picture.php


This graph shows the percentage of riders (passengers excluded) who died in police-reported crashes. Regions are:
  • Sacramento Valley: counties on the I-5 corridor from Sacramento to Redding
  • Bay Area: 9 counties on the Bay + Santa Cruz
  • Central Coast: Ventura to Monterey plus San Benito
  • San Joaquin Valley: I-5 corridor from the Grapevine to Stockton
  • El Lay: Los Angeles and Orange Counties
  • Inland Empire: Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
  • Sandy Eggo: San Diego and Imperial Counties
 

Smash Allen

Banned
I attribute the noticeably lower rates of lethality in the <25 and 25-34 group in the Bay Area to BARF :twofinger we got the lowest rates in the state!
 

GAJ

Well-known member
Crash lethality, the likelihood of a motorcycle crash killing the rider, differs by age group, as one might expect. But in California, with all of its geographic and demographic variation, it also differs by region:

picture.php

Aren't almost half of all riders over 50 now in California?
 

DataDan

Mama says he's bona fide
Aren't almost half of all riders over 50 now in California?
Very likely. IIRC, Motorcycle Industry Council (which does regular surveys) reports average owner age in the US is now over 50.

But as seen in the other graph, the 55+ group is nowhere near half of crashers. So their (our) vulnerability has a fairly small effect on overall lethality.
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
This is really interesting stuff Dan.

Love to hear you take on the different regions.
 
Top