MARINE CORPS MOTORCYCLE SAFETY TRAINING

The Marine Corps is working to develop a new motorcycle safety training course that would target inexperienced riders. In an effort to stem deaths and serious injuries caused by motorcycle accidents, Marine Corps Safety Division officials are now developing the Riders Essential Skills Training — or REST — course. Despite a dramatic decrease in motorcycle fatalities since a high of 25 in 2008, accidents and death remain a persistent problem with one Marine already killed just 20 days into fiscal 2015, according to statistics published by the Naval Safety Center. Still under development, REST will work to combat preventable motorcycle accidents that are the result of rider error.