Sarasota,FL : Most likely to die in a motorcycle crash on November, Wednesday 8th 2017

When Ron Havens takes a road trip on his Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, he sees a lot of riders like himself guys over 60 who rode when they were young and are back at it now that they’re retired.

And some are not as skilled as they imagine.

“The people our age think we’re really good riders and we don’t take courses,” said Havens, 73, of Springfield, Illinois. “And the bikes are bigger now than what I rode in the ’70s — bigger, faster, with more acceleration.”

National statistics on motorcycle fatalities show a curious trend: Whereas in 1975, 80 percent of motorcycle fatalities involved riders 29 years old or younger, now the age group with the most fatalities is 50 and older, at 35 percent, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit highway safety research group funded by auto insurance companies. Ninety-one percent of those killed in 2015 were male.

The total number of motorcycle fatalities also has been rising. It accounted for 14 percent of all deaths on U.S. roads in 2016, with 5,286 fatalities, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA. This was 5 percent higher than 2015 and more than double the number from 20 years ago.

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Most likely to die in a motorcycle crash