The following table is based on the tables 7, 8, 9, 10, and 35 of Traffic Safety Facts 2001 by U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:

Vehicles Involved in Crashes by Vehicle Type, Crash Severity, and Registration

Vehicle Type	Crash Severity						Crash Total		Registration
	Fatal		Injury		Property Damage Only
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Passenger Car	27,429	48.8	2,279,000	62.5	4,399,000	59.2	6,705,000	60.3	128,714,022	58.4
Light Truck	20,722	36.9	1,218,000	33.4	2,679,000	36.1	3,918,000	35.2	79,005,848	35.8
Large Truck	4,793	8.5	90,000	2.5	335,000	4.5	429,000	3.9	7,857,674	3.6
Motorcycle	3,249	5.8	57,000	1.6	14,000	0.2	74,000	0.7	4,903,056	2.2
Total	56,193	100.0	3,644,000	100.0	7,427,000	100.0	11,126,000	100.0	220,480,600	100.0

Using figures in the table above, we can calculate crash involvement rates for all automobiles and motorcycles.

Automobiles: Crash Involvement Rate (All Automobile Crashes per All Registered Automobiles):

11,052,000/ 215,577,544 x 100 = 5.13%

Motorcycles: Crash Involvement Rate (All Motorcycle Crashes per Registered Motorcycles):

74,000 / 4,903,056 x 100 = 1.51%

Motorcyclists' crash involvement rate is already significantly LOWER than that of automobile drivers.

The reason people say that motorcycles are dangerous is not that motorcycles crash more but when motorcycles crash, consequences are more catastrophic than those of automobile crashes because motorcycles as vehicles essentially offer no protection while automobiles do to some extent.

As the motorcycle crash involvement rate is so low already, it's no wonder reducing it even further is difficult if not entirely impossible.