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• Motorcycle Accidents in Washington State: A Growing Problem   
  
• Motorcycle rider conspicuity and crash related injury: case-control study 
  Estimates of relative risk of motorcycle crash related injury and population attributable risk associated with conspicuity measures, including the use of reflective or fluorescent clothing, headlight operation, and colour of helmet, clothing, and motorcycle.
• The effect of motorcycle helmet use law on head injuries  
  The helmet law effectively decreased the mortality and morbidity from motorcycle-related head injuries.
• The Influence of Ethanol Intoxication on Outcome of Injured Motorcyclists  
  Overall, the intoxicated group had a fourfold increased mortality rate. Thus, although intoxicated motorcyclists comprised 25% of the total population, they represent a mere 9% of the helmet-wearing population, and, in contrast, 39% of the severely head-injured victims and a majority (57%) of the mortality rate.
• Effect of motorcycle helmet law on traumatic brain injuries  
  Helmet use increased from an average of less than 20% to over 96%. The rate of TBI admissions to neurosurgery decreased by over 31% and epidural hematomas almost completely disappeared in crash injured moped riders.