Motorcycle Driving, Its Advantages and Hazards

Motorcycles are everywhere in the metropolis.  Streets including highways are teeming with these vehicles daily, so are the lanes and roads in the provinces.

This type of land transport have become very popular primarily due to:

• It is cheaper and easily affordable to an average income earner
• Low fuel consumption compared to other vehicles thus, a big cut on fuel expenses.
• Easier to navigate even in  rough roads and  narrow places. 
• Its size makes travel easier and faster in traffic congested streets and avenues of the metropolis.  
• Lesser parking need as it only requires a very minimal space.

These rationales had boost up the sale of motorcycles.  But upshot of this increase in motorcycle ownership is a step up in road mishaps involving these vehicles.  Government had been adapting measures to prevent these accidents like providing motorcycle lanes in every major thoroughfare and requiring use of government approved standard safety helmets yet there are still motorcycle accident reports in the news almost every day.  Sadly, most of these are not attributable to machine defects but mostly due to human errors, like drunkenness, driver’s arrogance, hardheadedness and non observation of traffic rules and regulations. 

Some of these mishaps even involve unlicensed minors who once aboard a motorcycle are experiencing an extra high feeling that makes them oblivious of the risks of fast driving and the damage it may bring on their lives and on the lives and properties of others.  Sample case is the attitude of some youths in our neighborhood who would drive their roaring motorcycles at high speed unmindful of the dangers they pose to residents of the place particularly to children who play on the side of the streets.  There are cases too where a family of three to four composed of the father, mother and children are all passengers of a single vehicle where some members usually the children are without protective helmets.  Although this practice is not tolerated in the highways and main thoroughfares but this sight is common on inner streets where no traffic enforcers are posted.

A motorcycle is a very light vehicle where the rider’s only protection against harm in cases of an accident is helmet that could only protect the head and not the whole body.  Owners should exercise sense of conscientiousness to ensure not only its passenger’s safety but that of third parties too that may suffer for this carelessness.  A little indiscretion would mean damage to or loss of life hence it would do more good if every hazard safeguard  are exercised and  traffic rules and regulations are diligently observed. 

It would be preferable to be bothered by observing the “must measures for safety” than to be sorry for irreversible damage or loss resulting to carelessness and misdemeanors.  Being a responsible owner (or user) always pays for it will save not only your life but possibly also that of your love ones and third parties who are unwilling victims that had to suffer for someone’s recklessness.