Celebrating safer riding

WSB champ James Toseland is backing National Motorcycle Safety Week, which begins on Monday (March 13) – and the launch of a new emergency medical ID card for riders.

The week aims to maintain the good progress we’ve all been making with reductions in bike accidents – and to encourage all road users to think about ways of improving safety for all.

Given the gloom and doom trotted out about bikes and accidents in the media it’s worth recalling that if you take into account an increase in both the number of bikes on the road and the number of miles we are riding, the casualty rate shows a nine per cent FALL for riders in 2004.

From 1993 to 2003 the casualty rate per 100m kilometers ridden fell by 22 per cent – and that’s according to the DfT.

But accidents are still happening and Toseland will be joining week sponsor’s General Legal Protection to launch joint support for ‘PULSE’ – a project dedicated to developing a comprehensive system to help the emergency services cope with seriously injured motorcyclists requiring emergency medical treatment.

By becoming a Pulse member you’ll be allocated a unique number that will be printed on a photoID card to be carried at all times. If you have the misfortune to be involved in a serious accident, the emergency services will call Pulse and access important information on a 24/7 helpline.

This information includes blood group, diagnosed conditions, prescribed long term medication, name of doctor, as well as name, address, date of birth and next of kin.

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