Safety ratings on motorcycle helmets have been released to coincide with Motorcycle Awareness Month.<\/p>\n
The Consumer Rating and Assessment of Safety Helmets (CRASH), a consortium of Transport for NSW, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and Transport Accident Commission (TAC), tested 30 helmets against a range of criteria including protection and comfort.<\/p>\n
\u201cMotorcyclists are much more exposed than motorists if they\u2019re in a crash which is why choosing the best helmet is so important,\u201d said Minister for Roads Andrew Constance.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far this year, there have been 51 motorcyclists killed on NSW roads. This is eight more than during the same period last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2018, 16 per cent of all road fatalities (54 fatalities) and 12 percent of all road injuries (2,096 injuries) were sustained by motorcyclists. When you realise motorcycles only account for around four percent of all motor vehicle registrations these statistics are concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ratings for helmets and clothing can be viewed online at www.crash.org.au<\/a> \u00a0and www.motocap.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Safety ratings on motorcycle helmets have been released to coincide with Motorcycle Awareness Month. The Consumer Rating and Assessment of Safety Helmets (CRASH), a consortium of Transport for NSW, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and Transport Accident Commission (TAC), tested 30 helmets against a range of criteria including protection and comfort. \u201cMotorcyclists are much more exposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}