The Texas Motorcycle Safety Coalition met on August 24 to discuss a number of items. Highlights include:

• TxDOT Motorcycle Survival Presentation: Overview & Responses
• Motorcycle Strategic Action Plan Supplemental TMSC Workshop Overview
• Gear Up PSAs Presentation & Feedback
• Identification of Future TMSC Meeting Locations, Dates, and Times
• Associate Designer from KLIM Technical Riding Gear Presents to coalition on New Gear Trends, KLIM Development and Design Strategies, and More
• Learn. Live. Outreach Events

The meeting minutes are now available to download.

The TMSC serves as a public forum for addressing strategies to improve motorcycle safety; discusses effective programs, regulations, and other opportunities to improve motorcycle safety; reviews, proposes, and makes recommendations concerning motorcycle-related legislation; and serves to promote rider safety and inform the public about being aware of motorcycles and sharing the road safely.

Find minutes from other meetings here.

Want your motorcycle club or group members to be safer when riding and reduce the potential for deadly crashes?

Riding motorcycles involves an element of risk. Contributing to the danger is a lack of knowledge amongst riders of what the real risks are and the strategies they can use to avoid crashes. Through the efforts of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, motorcycle crashes have been extensively researched and that research shows that most can be avoided by the actions of a knowledgeable and skillful rider, but we need to share this information to reduce crashes.

TxDOT offers a free on-site presentation of this valuable and life-saving information to your club or group as part of on-going rider safety efforts. For further information or to schedule a presentation, please contact:

Jude Schexnyder
Motorcycle Safety Program Manager
(512) 832-7035
Email: jude.schexnyder@txdot.gov

Let’s all work together to stay riding safe.

During the June TMSC meeting, held in College Station on June 22^nd, the coalition members and guests in attendance worked together to expand one of the motorcycle safety countermeasures presented in the Texas Strategic Action Plan for Motorcycles. The document, Texas SAP for Motorcycles Supplement, reviews the methods used for conducting the working session, as well as the findings presented by the session’s breakout groups. The goal for this working session was to allow for a diverse set of motorcycle safety stakeholders to collaborate on ways to achieve rider responsibility. Similar working sessions that will expand on other countermeasures presented in the Texas Strategic Action Plan for Motorcycles will be held in future TMSC meetings.

Download the PDF.

Join us for the Texas Motorcycle Safety Coalition (TMSC) meeting, August 24, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The meeting will be held in College Station, Texas, at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute in the Gibb Gilchrist Building, room 102. Both members and non-members are invited to attend the meeting.

Please RSVP to attend by emailing Christie no later than noon on Tuesday, August 22 and indicate if you will drive a State Vehicle, Personal Vehicle or Motorcycle so that we can have an accurate headcount and correct types of parking permits. This is very important because the permits have to ordered/picked up from TAMU Parking.

The agenda will be as follows: