A key effort initiated by NHTSA, aimed at promoting motorcycle safety and understanding the factors that contribute to motorcycle crashes, is the State Motorcycle Safety Program Technical Assessments ("State Assessments"), which provide comprehensive reviews of State motorcycle safety programs and practices. During the assessments, reviewers examine the policies States have implemented to promote motorcycle safety and offer recommendations for additional steps States may take to encourage safe riding and reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities. This report reviews the implementation and barriers to implementation of the nine State Assessments completed by NHTSA at least one year before the start of this project. Drawing on information collected from follow-up surveys administered to motorcycle safety officials in these States in late 2007 and early 2008, the report addresses the following questions: • What were the most frequent kinds of recommendations made as part of the State assessments? • Which types of recommendations were most frequently implemented by the States? • What is the impact of those recommendations that were implemented according to the States? • What kinds of recommendations were least likely to be implemented by the States? • What are the reasons why certain recommendations were not implemented ? (Author/publisher)
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