Exactly, and they get thinned out pretty quickly. I rode motorcycles for 25 years, 5 of those years I didn't own a car, crossed the continent many times, rode to Alaska (and back, dammit!), yada yada. I'm sure I logged 300k or 400k+ miles on motorcycles, big screaming 1000cc plus ones, and I was a pretty big student of motorcycle safety.

I remember one study I read some years back, I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like 90% of the motorcycle accidents happened in the riders first 1k miles, then something like 90% of the remaining accidents happened within 10k miles. So if you made it out to 11k miles, you were something like 99% less likely to get in an accident than a noob hopping on a bike for the first time.

This was probably a combination of filtering out risk takers as well as the advantages of experience.

I know that after a while, I essentially rode a motorcycle with the attitude that a car couldn't hit me even if they were trying to. It is a lesson I try to apply to bicycling.