The two-wheel exception to falling traffic deaths By Dale McFeatters

One of the more beneficial side effects of a slowing economy and rising gas prices is a decrease in traffic fatalities.

Last year traffic deaths fell to 41,059, the lowest since 1994, and the fatality rate -- 1.37 deaths per 100 million miles -- was the lowest ever, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

But there was one conspicuous exception to the fall in traffic deaths and in its own way related to high fuel costs -- motorcycles.

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