Midlife & Motorcycles Don't Mix
According to a Scripps Howard News Service Report, an unusually large number of divorced middle-age men are dying in motorcycle accidents, prompting speculation by experts that many chose to take up the often-risky sport of cycling as a symptom of midlife crisis.
Dead motorcyclists are overwhelming male (90 percent) and disproportionately white (87 percent). Although teenagers and young adults are over-represented in fatal car accidents, motorcycle fatality victims are disproportionately middle-aged with 46 percent in their 40s or older. About a third have attended college, compared to about half the general public.
