Investigative Research

The Stupid Factor – Revised March 2025 Elaine Hardy PhD I have been involved in vehicle crime analysis but also road safety research for around thirty years. During that time

This paper highlights the potential connections, either directly or indirectly between the protagonists considered in this paper and Russian politics.

The article  “Motorcycles, Crime and Silver Bullets” was written in 2018 for FIM’s Public Affairs website.  As the website appears to have been taken down, the article has with it – disappeared.  There was a lot of information regarding motorcycles, legislation and security, so once again for the benefit of motorcyclists who wish to know […]

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the resale of Category C (S) and D (N) vehicles is not controlled because there is no mechanism to determine whether these recycled vehicles are repaired to a degree such that they are secure and safe to drive. The concern is that these vehicles may be involved in road […]

The analysis of a global survey of 1578 motorcyclists who responded from 30 countries in Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and South America and in eight languages in 2019 has been published in a comprehensive report. Riders of motorcycles, scooters and mopeds who had been involved in a collision over the last ten years were […]