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Study Shows An Increase In The Number Of Injuries Among Lightweight Motorcycles Users
Focussed on Barcelona, the study has shown that there has been an increase in the number of injuries among users of lightweight motorcycles after a law was passed in 2004, allowing the riding of motorbikes with a class B license (for cars).
The risk of having an accident has not changed since then, suggest the results .
In 2004, in order to improve the flow of traffic and reduce the number of cars on the roads occupied by a single person, the Spanish government passed a law allowing holders of a class B driving license (for cars) over a period of more than three years to ride motorcycles, whose use is permitted with a class A1 license (for lightweight motorbikes).
"We have evaluated the differences between the risk of traffic injuries among motorcyclists before and after the approval of the law," Catherine Perez the main author of the study, a researcher from the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB), told SINC.
The results of the work have shown that the risk of injuries among the users of lightweight motorcycles has increased by 46 percent in the three years since the approval of the law.
But once this figure is adjusted owing to the high increase in the number of motorbikes, no rise in the risk for riders of light motorcycles has been observed.
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