When you look at this article in its complete form you see deaths have increased 81 percent (In the three years after Florida repealed a law requiring riders to wear helmets, motorcycle deaths increased more than 81 percent statewide compared to the three years before. And the deaths of riders younger than 21 nearly tripled, the study found.)

But the same article goes on to say that motorcycle ridership has increased 91 percent(New motorcycle registrations in Florida spiked from 219,000 in 2000 to 417,000 last year - a 91 percent jump, according to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Meanwhile, new car registrations in that period rose only 18 percent.)



Now that sounds like a 10 percent decrease in motorcycle fatalities to me, not an increase.













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