Backstory: The Hurt Report (1981 – pdf – external link) and Washington State Motorcycle Rider Safety Task Force (2006 – pdf – local copy)
From the Washington State Department of Licensing; 18 August 2010.
I have simply re-created the DOL table “as it is” — my assumption is that “blank” cells in the past are, really, “0″ but I’m not willing to put a “0″ where one was missing.
Here is the latest update as of today for fatal motorcycle crashes:
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | AVG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1.8 | |
| February | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2.3 |
| March | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3.3 |
| April | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 6.8 |
| May | 6 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6.8 |
| June | 11 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 8.7 |
| July | 15 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10.5 |
| August | 12 | 17 | 10 | 17 | 12 | - | 11.3 |
| September | 7 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 10 | - | 8.2 |
| October | 6 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | - | 4.8 |
| November | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | 2.2 |
| December | 1 | 0 | - | 0.3 | |||
| Totals | 74 | 80 | 65 | 78 | 67 | 29 | 65.5 |