Motorcycle jacket Airbag

[dot.hawkes]

My son has just heard something on the news about it being a new law about the motorcycle jacket airbag system.
I can't find it online, anyone got a link?
This would have saved danny's life 31st August 2007, he was killed instantly when his heart valve was shattered when he hit the lamppost with his chest.
It is too late for him but it sounds like a real lifesaver.

[ChuckFickens]

http://www.wairbag.com/

[DrFilth]

the test has raised fears the Government might look to make airbag jackets compulsory


MIGHT LOOK TO MAKE

we have a enough laws in this country


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don't forget the bbc removed the video that proved speed cameras caused crashes.

[SeaJayPea]

They're a great idea. Motorcycles are just 1% of the vehicles on our roads, and 20% of the fatalities. Anything that can be done to reduce this appalling statistic has to be a good thing.
I'm not saying that motorcyclists are responsible for 20% of the deaths, just that they're more vulnerable to other people making mistakes.
It's not law yet, Dot. Indeed, there are no plans to make them so. But, given the fact that they are proven life-savers, it can only be a matter of time.

[SeaJayPea]

Just found this, very interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/n ewsid_7886000/7886427.stm

[dot.hawkes]

Thanks CJ very good link, but the guy doing 130mph on a race track?!!! Danny was doing 28mph in a 40 limit (as I recall from the inquest).

[losingravity]

( I'm not saying that motorcyclists are responsible for 20% of the deaths, just that they're more vulnerable to other people making mistakes )

Why not give the car drivers who say I Did Not See Him bigger sentences or fines .Just over 5% of accidents are caused by speed . Why not start targeting the other 95% in road safety videos

( But, given the fact that they are proven life-savers, it can only be a matter of time. )

Will the fact that i may have one of these Jackets on make you more likely to pull out on me

[dot.hawkes]

Yes that's a really good piont of view because that is another issue we have highlighted in our village, we have joined the THINK BIKE campaign and there are signs on vehicles and businesses now that weren't there before, but it isn't a sign i see much elsewhere, do you know the one I mean ?

[dot.hawkes]

http://www.multiprint.uk.com/shinysideup/conta cts.html

[losingravity]

Thank You for that link .

[losingravity]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsres ults/mcn/2009/February/9-15/feb1209-air-bag-mo torcycle-jacket/

[TWR]

I am not tying all the motor cyclists with the same brush, but do brains come with these new Air Bags? from what I have seen on a Summers day in Lanc's & It will be the Country over the Dk heads on these bikes deserve everything they get but I feel for the other motorist's that are innocent that get involved.

[DrFilth]

I am not tying all the car drivers with the same brush, but do they keep their brains inside Air Bags ?

IF YOU CAN NOT SEE ME WITH A HEADLIGHT ON what chance has a kid or animal got ?


SORRY MATE I DID NOT SEE YOU ?

heard all this crap 1000 times over the years



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in over 30 years on the road had 1 bad accident . sorry mate i did not see you . lucky there was a family out for a walk and saw what happened.


sorry mate i did not see you = i blind dozy car driver. ffs muppets

[TWR]

I'm afraid it's not me Mate that travels at 100 MPH, sod every body else, carving people up, taking chances, causing others to brake because you have no brains MATE, 38yrs Driving, A.D.C. Regular HGV assessment tests, No accidents, Yes, I can see Motor Cyclists that ride within the LAW MATE, But I cannot see you when you fly in between traffic just to be one minute closer to your maker MATE, Enjoy your BOX they are now lined with silk.

[DrFilth]

ffs you muppet i was doing 32 in a 40 on a clear day . it was the muppet in the car that was speeding . hence the police prosecuted him for a couple of things not me.

how many hit and runs by bikes ? how many by cars ?

more muppets drive cars than ride bikes .

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safe in our little box we can play with the radio / cd /satnav and even comb our hair in the mirror while we drive . hungry no probs we can even have a sarnie and a drink in our safe little box.
wet road , no probs we are safe in our little box
sharp bend ahead no probs i pay road tax i will keep my speed up, anything in front on the road , tuff


once again MUPPETS drive cars

[DrFilth]

According to statistics from the Association of British Insurers, 1 in 10 motorists has had an accident with an uninsured driver. Uninsured drivers are ten times more likely to drive while drunk and three times more likely to be convicted of driving without due care.

The Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) will pay compensation to victims of hit-and-run road traffic accidents or where the driver responsible for the accident was uninsured, provided you can show proof that you have made every effort possible to trace the driver and claim compensation from them.

Because claiming compensation for a car accident where the other driver is untraced or uninsured can be complicated, you should hire a road traffic accident solicitor


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[DrFilth]

Statistics
In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport collects and publishes statistics and reports on accidents, including an analysis of hit-and-run accidents.

Their evidence indicates that hit and run accidents occur most often on roads with a speed limit of at most 40mph. On these roads, 8% of fatal accidents were hit-and-runs in 2002, rising to 14.7% of slight accidents. However there is also a pronounced effect due to time of day; between 12am and 3am the number of slight accidents that were hit-and-runs rose to 20%.

Hit-and-run drivers were more likely to be driving vans than cars; to be young males; and were far more likely to fail a breathalyzer test than other drivers, if apprehended



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[DrFilth]

38yrs Driving, A.D.C. Regular HGV assessment tests, No accidents

cars try not to hit hgv's . a muppet in his little box sees muppet in bigger box and thinks to him/herself i will find something smaller

try riding a bike for that length of time with no little box around you to protect you.

then come and brag ?



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[DrFilth]

A DfT strategy paper claimed speed was "a major contributory factor in about a third of all road accidents". The "excessive and inappropriate speed" that helped "to kill about 1,200 people" each year was "far more than any other single contributor to casualties on our roads".

The source given for this claim, to be repeated as a mantra by ministers and officials for years to come, was a report from the government's Transport Research Laboratory, TRL Report 323: "A new system for recording contributory factors in road accidents".

Not many people would have looked at this report, since it was only available for �45. But some who did were amazed. The evidence the report had cited to support its claim that speed was "a major contributory factor in about a third of all road accidents" simply wasn't there. Many other factors were named as contributing to road accidents, from driving without due care and attention to the influence of drink; from poor overtaking to nodding off at the wheel. But the figure given for accidents in which the main causative factor was "excessive speed" was way down the list, at only 7.3 per cent.

So startling seemed the government's exaggeration of the TRL's figures, based on data provided by eight police forces, that it set off an increasingly fractious debate. A leading role in this was to be played by Paul Smith, an engineer turned road safety expert, who was so shocked by the government's misuse of its own experts' statistics that in 2001 he set up a website, (www.safespeed.org.uk) dedicated to analysis of why, in his view, the government's misconceived policy, far from making Britain's roads safer, could only make them more dangerous.


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still want to blame speed muppet

[TWR]

To conclude, What church do you belong top? what time do you start? I give my opinion to a question, to what we hear in our area every summer, I never said ALL MOTOR CYCLIST From Burnley to Gisburn "" another death"" Gisburn to Settle "another death" Settle to Kirby longsdale you may know this site, devils Bridge more deaths, to your reply, I do not have Sat Nav, I do not use my radio, My concentration is in what I am doing my A.D.C & what I have stated has taught me that, I regards myself as a safe driver who does not take chances does that conclude your Muppet's in general statement?

[DrFilth]

get on the A54 /A537 much better for bikes, i shall name you saint TWR as you must be the only one that has never tried to tune the radio/look at map/ sat nav /comb hair/ eat sarnie/ smoke /drink/ change cd/mini disk/wind window down and have a chat with other trucker on M56, drive in 3rd lane on M56/ etc,etc

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