Actually, if you look at the report that Rice Burner linked from the Florida Department of Highway Saftey and Motor Vehicles, it has some interesting statistics on pages 17 and 18.
It reports the number of accidents per ten thousand licensed drivers of every age from 15 to 29 and from 70 to 85+. The 15-29 age groups have nearly twice the number of accidents per 10,000 licensed drivers than the 70 and over crowd.
For the younger drivers, the highest rate is the 18-year-olds (at 6.79 per 10,000). The lowest rate is the 28-year-olds (at 2.52).
For the geezers, the highest rate is the 83-year-olds (3.13) and the lowest is the 75-year-olds (1.25).
Also, the numbers of crashes involving drinking drivers looks to be around 10 to 20 times higher for the young crowd than the old guys.
None of the statistics on those two pages are motorcycle specific, so it could be that the old folks are still pulling out in front of bikers at a higher rate than the young people, but those statistics are still interesting.
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