Watch for motorcycles. But if you're not going to, at least use your damn blinkers.

[Glassunion]

72. Why is the watch for motorcycles campaign silly? 56% of all motorcycle fatalities are from

drivers not watching for motorcycles. 78% of those fatalities are head on collisions the majority of which are are cars turning left across the motorcycle's path, or pulling out in front of the motorcycle.

Are the watch for pedestrians or bicycles campaigns silly too? Car drivers kill a lot of them each year too.

Motorcycles, pedestrians, and bicycles have every right to share the road with cars. Cars, trucks and SUVs are not a special class of vehicle with more rights than others. Some of us take public transport to work, others walk, others ride bicycles, some of us ride motorcycles, and the rest use passenger vehicles. Not one of those groups are any more special than the other.

The issue primarily is that in our cars we can be oblivious to world around us. We are in our quiet, air conditioned boxes, with a plethora of distractions. Such as our phones, radios, info-tainment systems, GPS, etc...

Saying to watch for motorcycles (pedestrians, bicycles) is not saying that you in your car are less special. It is saying that people are not watching as well as they should, and they are killing thousands of people each year.