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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Biggles on February 25, 2015, 08:40:20 PM

Title: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: Biggles on February 25, 2015, 08:40:20 PM

We all need to be pulled back to reality occasionally, especially when no one has had an acco for a while.
This blog has all the statistics and advice you'll need to top up your awareness reserves.

http://therideadvice.com/where-injured-motorcycle-accident/ (http://therideadvice.com/where-injured-motorcycle-accident/)

Just the usual advice, but with the facts to illustrate it.
Click on the big green info-graphic panel to get the whole picture.

Title: Re: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: Abe on February 26, 2015, 06:22:38 AM

Very interesting stat's there Biggles.

Title: Re: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: tj189 on February 26, 2015, 07:05:05 AM

Thanks for the link Biggles, always worth re reading this type of information  :thumb

Title: Re: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: Old Steve on February 26, 2015, 09:02:25 AM

You don't have to convince me.  I came across a rider of a 250 sports bike who had been going a kilometre or so to the shops and chose to wear thongs/flip flops, short beach shorts, tee-shirt, helmet and no gloves.

A vehicle ahead of him did not have a fixed cap on it's diesel tank and diesel spilled on the roundabout.  The rider was only doing 30 km/hr or so, low sided and slid out of the roundabout into the gutter at the edge of the pavement.

He suffered:

Foot injuries from abrasion
Knee injury from abrasion, patella visible
Thigh and calf injuries from abrasion
Shoulder injuries from abrasion
Hip injuries from abrasion
Elbow injuries from abrasion
Bad hand injuries to the palms from abrasion (riders instinctively put their hands down)

And that was a relatively low speed crash, a simple slow low sider.  When I delivered him to A&E at the base hospital, the registration nurse said, "No gear?  Self inflicted injuries then."

I wore ATGATT before I saw this, and I'll always wear ATGATT now no matter what the heat.  If it's too hot to wear gear then it's too hot to ride.

Title: Re: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: hobs on February 26, 2015, 09:09:47 AM

Hi guys,

A sobering reminder from the website to reinforce the issues of being alert and aware of possible consequences whenever and however we ride.

 http://therideadvice.com/where-injured-motorcycle-accident/ (http://therideadvice.com/where-injured-motorcycle-accident/)

Title: Re: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: hobs on February 26, 2015, 10:41:07 AM

Thanks Bill,

thought I was posting the right address.
This is pretty confronting. Warning that it is graphic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaezU-TAQs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaezU-TAQs)

Title: Re: How to minimise injuries in a crash
Post by: JuST Peter on March 09, 2015, 09:59:48 AM

Quote from: hobs on February 26, 2015, 10:41:07 AM

Thanks Bill,

thought I was posting the right address.
This is pretty confronting. Warning that it is graphic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaezU-TAQs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaezU-TAQs)

You weren't kidding about it being graphic. it's almost but not quite enough to turn me off bikes