NHTSA’S KNOWLEDGE BASE NHTSA’S MOTORCYCLE SAFETY NHTSA’s
Motorcycle Safety Program promotes the Department of
Transportation’s highest priority – safe transportation. It
includes only brief synopses of the many activities the agency
will pursue in reducing the number of motorcycle crashes and the
fatalities and injuries associated with these devastating
incidents. The problem of motorcycle fatalities and injuries is
not NHTSA’s alone to solve. States, local jurisdictions,
national organizations and individuals each have the
responsibility for ensuring motorcycle safety. NHTSA’s program
focuses on crash prevention, which is the area that has the
greatest potential to offer a safety payoff for motorcyclists
but also addresses the areas of injury mitigation and emergency
response. Personal protection is the best weapon against injury
mitigation when a crash does occur, followed by rapid emergency
response.