May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month!

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Last Updated: April 1st, 2024

Motorcycle Awareness Month TEAM Arizona is partnering with agencies across the state and doing its best to help increase awareness of motorcycling.  To a typical motorist, this campaign may seem insignificant, but to folks who ride, we know how valuable it is to share our perspective.

Motorcycles are vehicles with the same rights and privileges as any motor vehicle on the roadway. Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month is a national initiative aimed at getting motorists and motorcyclists to “share the road” with each other.

We need you, from a grassroots level, to help spread the word.  What can YOU do?  Easy!

  • TALK ABOUT MOTORCYCLES:  Share our perspective with the layperson.  Talk to motorists, in a positive manner, about the need to respect the rights of motorcyclists on the roadway.  For more ammunition, check out this National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fact Sheet.
  • INCREASE VISIBILITY:   Wearing bright, reflective, and highly visible gear can increase your chance of being seen by as much as 12% according to a recent study in the U.K.
  • ENHANCED TRAINING:  The Motorcycle Crash Causation Study (Hurt Report) put it bluntly; of the crashes studied, 90% of the individuals involved were not formally trained.  Nearly 25% of motorcycle crashes in the US involve someone who is improperly licensed.  TEAM Arizona rider training is fun, affordable (classes start at $30), and convenient.  What is stopping you?
  • RIDE SMART:  Follow the rules of the road, play nice with other motorists, and above all, the motorcycling community must stop drinking and riding.  Forty-two percent of the 1,921 motorcycle riders who died in single-vehicle crashes in 2010 had BAC levels of .08 g/dL or higher. Sixty-five percent of those killed in single vehicle crashes on weekend nights had BACs of .08 g/dL or higher.
  • CONTRIBUTE:  The good folks at Arizona Motorcycle Safety & Awareness Foundation need your support.  If every rider in Arizona chipped in $5, we’d have TV, radio, and billboard ads running daily in support of our cause.  Contribute to AMSAF here.