A Texas motorcycle safety and awareness campaign
The 250 mile loop east of Lubbock starts off with flat road through cotton fields. Eventually, you will find yourself riding on long and sweeping curves circling the Double Mountains. Much of the scenery, once traversed by Native American tribes, Spanish explorers, and various settlers, has been untouched for decades, so you do have to be on the lookout for wildlife. At the end of the 250 mile ride, you find yourself back in Lubbock, close to where you started.
This route had fatal and incapacitating crashes between 2010 – 2017. In Texas, drivers are not assigned “at fault” in a crash, but law enforcement can assign ‘factors or conditions’ that contributed or may have contributed to a crash. Multiple ‘crash factors and conditions’ can be assigned to one, some, or all vehicles involved in a crash.
The following tables represent data extracted from the Texas Department of Transportation’s Crash Records Information System (TxDOT’s CRIS).
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The following list is a summary of the crash events and conditions that have been described by officers investigating crashes along this route. The investigating officer provides his/her opinion of how the crash happened and will emphasize or explain, as necessary, any pertinent facts that are not fully explained elsewhere on the crash report. This section is meant to supplement the above data tables by providing further insight and “clues” into what factors and conditions contributed or may have contributed to crashes along this route.