Bill Text: NY K00884 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2022, as Motorcycle Safety and Awareness Month in the State of New York

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-11 - adopted [K00884 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-K00884-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 884

BY: M. of A. Rules (Lupardo)

        MEMORIALIZING  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim May 2022,
        as Motorcycle Safety  and  Awareness  Month  in  the
        State of New York

  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  custom  of this Legislative Body to recognize
official months that are set aside to increase awareness of issues  that
affect the lives of citizens of New York State; and

  WHEREAS,  Attendant  to  such  concern,  and in full accord with its
long-standing traditions, it is the sense of this  Legislative  Body  to
memorialize  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim May 2022, as Motorcycle
Safety and Awareness Month in the State of New York; and

  WHEREAS, Each year, motorcycle riders are killed by drivers  who  do
not  see them; greater public awareness must be achieved in an effort to
reduce the numbers of fatalities; and

  WHEREAS, In 2020, there were 5,579 motorcyclists killed  in  traffic
crashes, an 11% increase from 2019, when 5,044 were killed; furthermore,
motorcyclist  deaths  accounted  for 14% of the total highway fatalities
that year; and

  WHEREAS, The number of motorcyclists is increasing  yearly;  further
education is necessary in an effort to teach riders to become more aware
of safety issues and possible road hazards; and

  WHEREAS,   Research   shows  that  motorcyclists  are  significantly
overrepresented in traffic crashes and fatalities each  year;  in  2020,
per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists were about 28 times more likely
than  passenger  vehicle  occupants  to die in a motor vehicle crash and
were four times more likely to be injured; and

  WHEREAS, Motorcyclists 55 years-old and older accounted for  27%  of
motorcyclists  killed  in 2020; over the 10-year period from 2011- 2020,
motorcyclist fatalities among this age group increased by 37%; in  2011,
the  average  age of motorcycle riders killed in traffic crashes was 42,
whereas in 2020, the average age was 43; and

  WHEREAS, It is imperative that there be greater public awareness  of
this serious safety issue, and more must be done to increase activity at
the local, state and national levels; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May  2022,  as  Motorcycle
Safety and Awareness Month in the State of New York; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.