191358 Resource 106829 108325 108325 1196700313152 1196700313152 Controlled Groin Injuries Revisited

No One Wants to Talk About It

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Hurt report says more than 13% of motorcycle accidents involve groin injuries.&nbsp; My guess is that for accidents that involve other vehicles cutting off the motorcyclist, the number is much higher.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no protective gear that I am aware of, and the manufacturers don't seem to be designing with this problem in mind.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nonetheless, for a motorcyle going 25 mph or more at the time of impact, stopping by hitting your groin on the gas tank as the bike stops dead on the side of a vehicle is a recipe for a bad injury.&nbsp; Worse, for a motorcycle going faster than that, some kind of fracture of the pelvis is predictable.&nbsp; Likewise, this seems to be related to hip injuries.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't know what to do about it, but I certainly hope this becomes a factor for the motorcycle safety investigation that is seeing a resurgence.<br /> 10 application/xml false fractured pelvis groin injury hip injury Motorcycle accident motorcycle safety protective gear Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mpadway 12.197.80.190 false true false false true 201650 false false true false false false true 106829 blog blogsite/MichaelPadway/web