Proposed changes to motorbike licences

**davereid** · 5th October 2010, 06:35

Originally Posted by Squiggles

Interesting to look back 13 years at this thesis.

Interesting thesis, but it excluded residential streets and crashes in the early hours of the morning.

Why would you exclude residential streets?

**Newbi** · 14th September 2011, 22:39

Originally Posted by discotex

Wonder if anyone tried to contact the 6pm news before they went to air to give a reaction.. They managed to get AA guy on about the intersection changes but no-one from BRONZ et al about the bike changes. But they did get this handy stat out there:

According to 3news 60% of motorcycle accidents are the fault of the rider.... (they did then add "at least partially" but no-one else would have heard that).

Had to laugh (what else can you do?)... The anti-bike lobby in NZ is pissing all over us and we're just sitting there with our mouths open

(has anyone pointed out to the media that 100% of car accidents are the fault of a car driver?

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Oh how true!