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Colorado Motorcycle Rider Education Program                      

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
Approximately 80 percent of all motorcycle crashes result inserious injury or fatalities, and many of these crashes occurbecause of the motorcyclists' lack of knowledge or inadequateskills to safely operate a motorcycle.   Rider trainingcourses are offered in Colorado cities through the MotorcycleOperator Safety Training (MOST) program but this training isnot easily accessible by some residing in rural areas of thestate.  

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
In response, the Colorado Department of Transportation, Officeof Transportation Safety established a mobile rider educationprogram with the primary goals of:

• Training motorcyclists who reside in rural areas
• Assisting the newly created MOST state program

STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES
The mobile unit was developed through the Continuing EducationDepartment of Front Range Community College, Larimer Campus inFort Collins, Colorado.  The Colorado Office of TransportationSafety and the MOST program worked closely with the college indeveloping the program to ensure that the mobile unit wouldbecome an integral part of the state program.  Both the BasicRider Course for beginners and an Experienced Rider Course areoffered by the mobile unit.   Classes are taught on weekendsin order to accommodate the greatest number of students.

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