As always, the fatality rate is compared to the low, just like oil prices.
Not one peep about other major changes out there...little things like cell phone use while driving cars (two out of three motorcyclists who die in collisions with other vehicles are nailed or cut off by a 4 wheeled vehicle which fails to yield or left-turns in front of them), like the shape shift of the frontal impact area of vehicles, especially with the SUV, removing the bumper as a protruding object, and replacing it with a more monolithic impact area.
When I started riding, cars were built so that no vehicle short of a Semi would ever push the passenger door past the centerline of the vehicle.
The biases of the authors are blatant. The fact remains, that if she was pulling out of a parking lot and he hit the passenger door, he was on her right, on the main thoroughfare, and likely had the right-of-way. If they were both on the main roadway, she left-turned or tried to cross in front of him.
Now, whose fault would that be?
Read the eyewitness account in #78.
"LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt tells LBReport.com that the motorcycle driver (aboard a GSXR-style high-performance motorcycle) was near the LBCC entrance/pedestrian crossing on Carson St., facing west between two cars (straddling two lanes of traffic) when -- the new witness indicates -- the motorcycle driver revved his motor, then took off "like a rocket."