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Motorcycle Safety Plan for Massachusetts Rider

The state's motorcycle safety program is known as the Massachusetts Rider Education Program (MREP). The program's mission is to reduce the number of motorcycle-related fatalities and injuries and the resulting economic loss in Massachusetts by increasing the statewide availability of Motorcycle Safety Foundation-approved rider education courses, as well as by increasing public awareness and the number of education initiatives. The program also addresses the issues of impaired riding, helmet and protective riding gear use, driver-motorcyclist roadway sharing, and permit and licensing testing. Massachusetts is one of 46 states with a state-sponsored rider education program.

The program provides instructor training, promotional and technical assistance, and training motorcycles to a statewide network of eight sites operated by private contractors. The sites are located in Bedford, Beverly, Bourne, Brockton, Haverhill, Seekonk, West Boylston, and Westfield.

About 250,000 licensed motorcyclists, who had approximately 160,000 registered motorcycles, composed the program's customer base in 2000. MREP sites trained 6,350 students in 2000, a 16 percent increase from the year before. The program trained approximately 31,000 students between 1990 and 2000.

Along with the Commonwealth's universal helmet law, MREP training has helped to reduce motorcycle-related fatalities by 37 percent and injuries by 30 percent between 1990 and 1999. The improvements in safety took place even as the number of registered motorcycles in Massachusetts increased by 54 percent.

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