The population of the USA is around 328.2 million people.
There are four states that begin with the letter 'I'.
Illinois, population 12.67 million
Indiana, pop 6.73 million
Idaho, pop 1.787 million
Iowa, pop 3.155 million
For a total of 24.34 million.
In 2018, the number of motorcycles in use were 12.231 million. Or around 3.7% or the population. Assuming that spread is roughly the same for all states, of the four states beginning with 'I', we have roughly 900K riders.
Males make up 81% of the riders in the USA. This mean in these 4 states, we have somewhere around 172.34K female riders.
Females with the name of Carol seems to be somewhere in the order of 0.8%. So in these four states, we have roughly 1378 female riders named Carol.
To narrow it down further, what are the chanced that two of these females were the same age and both took a motorcycle class within 8 days of one another. Not just any motorcycle class but one specifically for three wheel motorcycles. Then, both of them have a single vehicle accident and both die as a result.
While the news carried both stories in the two different states, no one seemed to find it interesting that these two stories were so closely related.
September 28, 2020 Sunday
Carol McMurray, age 66
Indianapolis woman participating in a training course Sunday at Columbus Municipal Airport
lost control of a 2020 Can-Am Ryker (three wheeler) and struck a metal storage container.
Local paper for Columbus
http://www.therepublic.com/2020/09/28/motorcyclist-dies-in-accident-on-training-course-at-airport/https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-woman-killed-in-crash-during-motorcycle-training-course/531-d26d76ad-781c-4cd0-b62f-a6c317f05595Obituary
https://insideeko.com/carol-mcmurray-killed-death-dead-carol-mcmurray-obituary/ Oct 03, 2020 Saturday
Carol Counelis, age 66
DuPage County woman participating in a motorcycle safety training course at Harper College in Palatine
student killed in the crash hit a curb and was ejected from the motorcycle.
the crash occurred was the three-wheel basic rider course
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-woman-dies-harper-college-motorcycle-course-20201005-5w2t62viwnbqxabblmv5msq2h4-story.htmlObituary
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=carol-n-counelis&pid=196917432