France: Playful Motorcycle Safety Site

There's a ton of motorcycle riders in France. To ultimately increase road safety education with the purpose of reducing road accidents, the insurance association created a motorcycle crash prevention tool. The MotoPrev website illustrates a crash from three different views: from the rider's perspective, from the driver's perspective and an ariel view.

Although the MotoPrev website seems to be preaching to the converted, it's still worth checking out.

Here's the top seven (7) most frequent motorcycle accidents in France

Driver enters an intersection without priority, doesn't see the motorcyclist and causes an accident - 20%

Single vehicle accident where a motorcycle rider loses control of the bike for whatever reason and causes a crash - 20%

Rider passes on the left in slow moving traffic, driver doesn't see the motorcyclist; turns left in front of the biker -16%

Car driver turns left in front of on coming motorcyclist - 13%

Driver changes lanes; obviously doesn't see the motorcyclist and crashes in to him or her - 10%

Motorcyclist fails in an emergency brake situation and rear ends the vehicle in front - 6%

Motorcyclist hits a pedestrian crossing an obstructed intersection - 5%