Number of motorcycle accidents are skyrocketing

[Wheelie]

Speaking for Norway... It seems like two years of travel restrictions has made every 50+ something (who got their licence in their early twenties, and who has not ridden since) - run out and buy the most powerful bike they can afford - only to be scraped off the road within the hour after having received the keys. And there is a record number of new licence holders as well. The news has a lock on it, with new stories allmost every day. First responders I have spoken to tells me it is an abnormal ammount of accidents and that their impression is that there has been a growth in number of inexperienced riders being the main cause for the increase in accidents. Then again, the numbers have increased for cars as well.

I've seen more idiodic riding this season than probably the last ten years combined... and a bunch of senseless accidents (the last one only two days ago - when a noob female rider was choppered to the hospital after having slid underneath the guard rail after a classic left turn miss).

What's your impression where you are at (excluding places like Vietnam where things possibly can't become more crazy)?