Riders CRASH card receives award
By: Web Editor
THE phenomenal success of the free CRASH information card for bikers has won a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for 2012.
The annual award recognises achievements and innovations that will improve road safety, and the CRASH (Caution, Road, Accident, Serious and Help) card was presented with an award recently at the Ace Cafe London.
The card can be placed securely within a helmet and a green sticker can be fixed to the helmet to indicate that the card is contained inside. It contains vital information about riders, such as their medical information and history, which could speed up treatment.
Members of the Ambulance Motorcycle Club came up with the idea of the card. Club chairman paramedic and Essex biker Ian Burrell said: “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.
“If a biker is injured and unable to talk coherently because of concussion or having been knocked out, how does the ambulance crew find out who the patient is, what medication they take, or medical history? What information does the 999 call centre need?”
CRASH is now the most popular medical alert in the country and is still growing in the UK and USA – the organisers hope to have given out half a million cards by Christmas.
How can I get hold of one?
Either go to www.ambulancemotorcycleclub.150m.com or there are 10,000 cards available at the upcoming Motorcycle Live show at the NEC, Birmingham, thanks to Midlands Air Ambulance.
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judge dredd Says:
January, 8th 2012 at 09:14 pm
Its been done in some areas previously and whilst a good idea the small green spot may not be seen or present in the circumstances of a damaged helmet,
The info one writes on it isnt very
comprehensive so i would suggest that if there is anything one feels would be of benifit to the emergency services like having a very slow heartbeat of say 40 bpmin. or allergy or heart condition or asthma or unusuall blood group etc then write it down onto paper and staple it to the card.
That way they may be able to diagnose problems earlier.