Motorcyclists get a bad press

Motorcyclists get a bad press. Often when they are squished between two other vehicles.
Statistically, we know that most deaths on the road are those of motorcyclists. But why is this?
When you look around you as you drive around, motorcyclists are a minority of road users. And by and large they are focused on the task in hand - that of riding their motorcycle. Ask yourself when did you last see a motorbikist smoking, shaving, putting on make up, eating a sandwich or using a mobile phone on the move? Or reading a map, using a SatNav or trying to read a road map for that matter? Yet all these activities are commonly found amongst four wheeled road users. In fact, other than the odd Harley or Goldwing, which are big enough to count as cars anyway, when did you last see a motorcyclist distracted changing channels on the stereo?
Never, that's when.
Further more I would venture that out of all the people driving under the influence of drink or drugs, it is probably less than 1% who ride motorcycles. After all it's difficult to keep on your feet after ten pints of Stella, let alone drive a car, but balancing a fireblade is totally out of the question.
So we are left with the Governments tag line that speed kills. Well we know that it doesn't in itself. Speed is fine. It is the sudden stop when you run into something hard that kills, and obviously you have a better chance of survival in a big metal box than you do on a motorbike.
But, not all motorbicyclists speed, so, I have come to this controversial conclusion. Motorbikists are killed because they are better drivers and concentrate too much on the driving task.
If they drank a few beers, read a road map, used their mobile and ate a sandwich as they rode along then statistically their chances of survival would be higher - because a lot of drivers seem to do exactly that and get away with it.