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Written by Alex   
Tuesday, 06 December 2011 12:39

Applying the green dotAn Ambulance Motorcycle Club safety initiative has proved so successful, it's won an international award and hopes are it's set to go global.

The CRASH (Caution, Road, Accident, Serious and Help) card, which allows riders to store personal and medical information inside their helmet, is a free initiative designed to provide the emergency services with important rider-specific information for faster treatment in the event of an accident.

 


“The card has been designed by serving paramedics who have been on both sides of an accident as the injured rider or attending as help,” explains Ambulance Motorcycle Club chairman, paramedic and Essex biker Ian Burrell.

Once filled in by the rider, the card is placed securely within the helmet. A sticky green dot which comes with the card is then placed on the outside of the lid, to inform accident attendees that the card's contained within.

With over 500, 000 cards issued so far, CRASH is currently the most popular medical alert in the UK. Its success has already seen it gain widespread use in the USA and most recently the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for 2012. With plans to roll CRASH out to Scandinavia in early 2012, hopes are it will eventually become a globally recognised safety initiative.

Comforting news for ABRs travelling the world over!

Get yours here: www.ambulancemotorcycleclub.150m.com

 

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Don't rely on it
RoadTrekker
This year while touring the Dolomites my mate had a near death accident and ended up underneath a VW Passat afer taking a corner on the Grossglockner pass a bit wrong. Anyway when the paramedics arrived we showed him a medical card with all his personnel medical information on it to help them. The Austrain Paramedics who could speak English turned to us and said that as was not written in German they did not understand it or except it.
So he moral here is make sure that your medical history is written in the language of the countries that you are visiting otherwise it will not help.
The other problem is educating the emergancy services to know where to find this information and how to use it as every system has a different way of doing things. So unless it is a world wide agreement (which will never happen) this will never be effective apart from your home country like the UK. All the paramedics and police will have to be trained to look inside your helmet - Doh! How long will that take to happen?
There has been an internationaly recognised medic alert system available for many years called Medic Alert for more information go to http://www.medicalert.org/

At the end of the day you are relying on a paramedic who is concentrating on dealing with your injuries not rummaging around for bits of paper with information on it, if it has not been distroyed in the accident.

Good health and safe riding


Strange world
RoadTrekker , December 23, 2011
Don't put it there!
Henning!
I would not, as image shows, put the green sticker on something that is the first to come of at an accident!
Place it on the helmet behind the visor if non tinted one is used and if tinted is used somewhere on the helmets pain there it won't come of easily!
Henning! , January 21, 2012

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