Motorcycle-crash-blocks

[jimbo600]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hutt-valley/7985720/Motorcycle-crash-blocks

Why is this reported as a "motorcycle crash"? Clearly there was a car involved as well. What a load of cock. No wonder rego is so high.

From now on, in the interest of keeping the playing field even I want to see from the media headlines like "Maori commits infanticide." Or "Asian poaches paua."

All stereo types I know.

Are we just easy targets?

[rustic101]

The bike was still there, leaned up against the bank, when I rode home around 6pm..

[Ender EnZed]

Why is this reported as a "motorcycle crash"?

Because that title makes for a more interesting headline than "Crash blocks northbound SH2".



Are we just easy targets?

Yes.

[jim.cox]

In New Zealand for the purposes of data recording and statistics accidents are classified in terms of the most vulnerable victim

Anything involving a pedestrian will go down as a pedestrian accident.

If a biker is involved it will be recorded as a bike accident - unless they take on a pedestrian or a cyclist

Car vs Truck is a car accident

and so on

It makes extracting accurate numbers from TNZ's CAS database easier

[Jantar]

...
It makes extracting accurate numbers from TNZ's CAS database easier

But also less accurate.

[bogan]

How does a bike block two lanes anyway? there's just not that many big bits. Whip out the cellphone camera, take pics for insurance co and crash database, the lob all that shit over the fence, get the traffic going again. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.