![]() Strategies to reduce oversteering to prevent a lowside crash may reduce highside crashes, enhance the safety for riders in MotoGP racing, and be applicable to recreational motorcycle riding.Ĭopyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. Most highside crashes are caused by oversteering to prevent an impending lowside crash. Lowside crashes are lower risk than highside crashes. Lowside crashes had a lower rate of retirement from race, emergent transport, and significant injuries compared with highside crashes. In the topside group, both riders were retired with 1 hospital admission. In the highside group, there were 7 (95% CI, 0.25-0.81) significant injuries. In the highside group (n = 13), 10 (95% CI, 0.46-0.95) retired, 9 (95% CI, 0.39-0.91) were transported to the track medical facility, and 3 (95% CI, 0.05-0.54) were admitted to the hospital. In the lowside group (n = 58), 19 (95% confidence interval, 0.21-0.46) riders retired, 0 required emergent transportation to the track facility or to the hospital, and 1 (95% CI, <0.1-0.9) significant injury was noted. There were 78 crashes: 58 lowsides, 13 highsides, 2 topsides, and 5 indeterminate. We used the exact binomial test examine the association between accident type and retirement from race, transport to medical building, transport to hospital, and injuries sustained.Ĭrash prevalence was 9.7 per hundred rider hours. Basic descriptive statistics were performed on all categorical variables. Specific injuries and hospital admission data were collected using a standardized data collection form. Accident types were defined as lowside (falling toward the inside of the turn), highside (falling over and toward the outside of the turn), and topside (going over the handlebars of the motorcycle). Accident type was determined by race-marshal report and visual analysis of race footage for each crash. This was an institutional review board-approved, prospective observational cohort study of MotoGP riders for 1 racing season in 3 venues. The purpose was to benchmark the prevalence of injuries, categorize crash subtypes, and determine associated injury patterns. These crashes provide a novel opportunity to benchmark and analyze motorcycle crash mechanics, crash types, and associated injuries at high speeds in a cohort of riders who are well protected and in a controlled environment. 6 Seton Event Medicine Institute (SEMI), University Medical Center Brackenridge, 1400 North IH-35, CEC 2.230, Austin, TX 78701 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, 1611 NW 12th Ave Suite 405, Miami, FL 33136.Ĭrashes are a small but regular feature of elite motorcycle racing.5 Seton Event Medicine Institute (SEMI), University Medical Center Brackenridge, 1400 North IH-35, CEC 2.230, Austin, TX 78701 Emergency Department, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Suite 1.114, Austin, TX 78723.4 Seton Event Medicine Institute (SEMI), University Medical Center Brackenridge, 1400 North IH-35, CEC 2.230, Austin, TX 78701 City of Austin EMS, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Suite 1.114, Austin, TX 78723.3 Seton Event Medicine Institute (SEMI), University Medical Center Brackenridge, 1400 North IH-35, CEC 2.230, Austin, TX 78701 General Surgery, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Suite 1.114, Austin, TX 78723.Electronic address: 2 Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Suite 1.114, Austin, TX 78723 Seton Event Medicine Institute (SEMI), University Medical Center Brackenridge, 1400 North IH-35, CEC 2.230, Austin, TX 78701. 1 Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Suite 1.114, Austin, TX 78723 Seton Event Medicine Institute (SEMI), University Medical Center Brackenridge, 1400 North IH-35, CEC 2.230, Austin, TX 78701.
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