2:58pm Monday 6th July 2009
By Frances Kindon
MOTORCYCLISTS will be the target of a police campaign aimed at cutting biker deaths this summer.
Officers will be clamping down on speeding at notorious accident blackspots, including the ‘triangle’ to the west of Nantwich.
The area, which includes the A534, A49 and A51, has seen a high numbers of collisions involving motorbikes over previous years, so officers plan to target those riding irresponsibly and educate them about safety on the roads.
PC Paul Burke, from the Cheshire East Local Safety Partnership said: “Motorcyclists continue to be a disproportionately high figure in our local roads casualty numbers.
“Generally, motorcyclists are at greater risk of death or serious injury than other road users and bikers have the highest fatality rate per mile travelled.
“Motorcycles account for less than one per cent of vehicle traffic in Great Britain but fourteen per cent of the total death and serious injury traffic collisions on our roads involve motorbikes.”
He added: “The aim of this campaign is simply to bring down those figures. We also want to reduce the level of anti-social behaviour associated with a small irresponsible minority of riders.
“There is a need to reduce the unacceptable number of people killed and seriously injured as a result of motorcycle collisions.
“The vast majority of motorcyclists are law abiding, responsible people. However, there is a minority who choose to abuse road traffic laws and endanger their lives and others.”
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