A “dramatic. "decline jn

motorcycle ‘ fatalities. and.’ almost.
‘registered | ‘motorcycles. ins

Canada in ‘76 ‘than” there

injuriés is the result of better
‘training, better equipped -

motorcycles and more use of |

helmets, according to Bruce.

MacMillan, .
ir ofthe’

Executive |

menting" “on: recent ‘figures ”
from... Statistics - Canada
showing 270 riders killed. in
1976 ‘compared: to 351 the -
previous. year, e drop of 23
percent. 7

Rider’ ‘injuries were also
down in. 4976, the latest year
for. which figures are.
available:. From. 9, 855 ‘in
1975,. injuries. sropped to.
9,055 in "76.

At.

The decline- is even more:
dramatic when it is con-

Said’ MacMillan,

* sidered” ai there. - were :

410, -000.. “mor

were.in "75, up from 331,347
to 341,297. Expressed asa

_ percentage’. “of. registrations,
“. deaths” and - injuries... were”,
—_ lower. in -°76° than’: in-any -~

"previous year for which data -

-is recorded (see. graph).
“It’s a heartening trend, ”

‘which I expect’ to: continue
for three good: reasons:

from. the © motorcycle: in-
dustry, set up the National
’ Motorcycle Safety Program.
established training
facilities for riders in all the
major centres in Canada.

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- making. riders more: visible, to
‘motorists... ¢

“Three, “nine 3 ok “40

“provinces ‘now have com-

pulsory helmet laws. While
in general.
restrictive
MMIC strongly endorses
helmet. use as an effective
method of reducing
deaths

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"MacMillan cited British

we oppose —
‘legislation, -

and

statistics and a California
study indicating by far the
most likely candidates for
accidents were.

In Britain,

- figures indicate riders in the

17-24 age group represented
only 17 percent of all riders,
yet accounted for 27 percent
of injuries and deaths.

The :California study of
900 miotorcycle accidents
found .that—more..than 50
percent of: the riders in-
volved were between 16 and
23 ; 4

It also showed that 92
|. percent of the riders in

accidents had. no

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MOTORCYCLE FATALITIES expressed in percentage of 1,000 registrations.

or format
training. They were eight
self-taught or received in-
structions from others, who
were also self-taught.

MacMillan said the 65
training: centres in Canada

_were helping to make young
‘Canadians better riders and

make them aware of the
potential dangers.

The key thrust of the

- California study, conducted ©

by the U.S. Department of
Transportation, was that
accidents were caused by

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“motorists who said they
either did not see the

motorcycle rider or didn’t
see the rider until it was too
late.

MMIC has long endorsed’

the light-on approach and
currently is involved in a
Transport Canada campaign
to encourage riders to make
themselves and_ their
motorcycles as conspicuous
as possible.. ~*

Quebec. shoed the most
dramatic (66 ercent)
reduction in atalities

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between 1975 and °76, going
from 183 to 108. Even
th ugh there were 20,000
re motorcycles registered |
in 1977 than in 75, fatalities
numbered only 123.

In Ontario, where figures
for 1977 are also available,
there were fewer fatalities in
both 1976 (78) and 1977 (88)

than in 1975 (97), even
though motorcycle
registrations went from

77,302 to 82, 934 in those
years.

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president of the Canadian
Recreational Vehicle
Association, says con-
servation and economy are
the keystones of RV living
and the rest of the world is
just now catching; up with
the philosophy

that , has
gel

a Gone ~
siderable comment” to the
effect that RVs are “gas
guzzlers”. This ‘is a totally
unfair accusation, made only
by those who do not un-
derstand the nature of real
conservation, Marshall
contends.

The average RV load is
three to five persons and if
those same individuals were
at home they could be
consuming more energy than
they would in their RV,
depending of course on what
they are doing and where
they are. RVers learn that
there is a limited amount of
propane, water and battery
power available and,

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