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Six motorcyclists died in Washington State last weekend across five separate accidents
(hexbear.net)
Look I'm as much "fuck cars" as the next guy but riding a motorcycle on a highway is unironically suicidal. I personally know a guy who got in a bad crash on one but miraculously survived; he had a year long recovery period but will have various pain and dysfunction in his body for the rest of his life. I also know some people who did pathology rotations (state medical examiner office, autopsy basically) and the big three categories of bodies coming in were drug overdoses, suicides, and motorcycle crashes.
One of the facebook comments links to a seventh person who died a few days before these on June 18th: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-sr-530-crash.amp
OOC how many of them were driving the speed limit? IDK I'm open to there being a marginal increase in risk to motorcyclists but when 98% of the vehicles I see traveling faster than 150km/hr are motorcycles I do feel pretty skeptical that the risks to a motorcyclist are principally external.
A majority of motorcycle fatalities have one or as much as all of the following factors: No motorcycle license, no safety gear, and drunk.