Desperado, are these solo accidents or car vs bike accidents that you are seeing? I just ask because it's not just new riders that are a growing problem, but drivers who are not careful enough to watch for motorcycles.

Regarding the motorist part of the safety equation, I'm visiting my mom in San Francisco for Thanksgiving and I have to turn up the "radar" a notch when I drive here because of all the bicyclists in San Francisco compared to down in SoCal where I live. In particular, I make sure to signal and make a little extra effort to look before making right turns or before opening the driver's side door when parked on the street (had a lot of close calls when I used to bicycle here a lot myself). For drivers, just being aware of the possibility of a small bicycle being somewhere near your vehicle is half the challenge of driving safely since bicycles, like motorcycles, can be places where you normally wouldn't expect a car, like a motorcycle splitting lanes down the left side of your stopped car or a bicycle riding at a good clip in the bike lane on your right.