If you want the MOST common accident with a motorcycle period it is involving another vehical (most of the time because the other vehical didn't see the motorcyle as stated above)
If you looking for the most common accident being the motorcyclist's fault, it is in a corner. It happens when the motorcycleist does not judge a corner corectly and goes wide into a ditch. That is the most common accident at the fault of the rider. That info is from the ABATE MSF course I took. Sorry that I don't have a link to back it up. I'll see what I can find on it though.
I don't ride as safe as some people would like me to and I still have had 100 times more close calls with an another automobile than me just being stupid. Mostly because when I'm being stupid I'm checking out the area first and trying to eliminate as many variables as possable. I have no control over another vehical pulling out in fron to of me. As far as I'm conserned thats a fact of life. If you ride a motorcycle someone WILL pull out in front of you. Thats just how it is. Motorcycles are small which makes them hard to see and hard to judge their speed.
I don't get why people are so quick to blame the ride to be at fault for most accidents... Why would ABATE and other motorcycle organizations run SO many compains on TV and the radio to look for motorcycles and share the road if most of the accidents where the riders fault..... Just something to think about I guess.
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