A Million Cards

The International Helmet Safety Card One Million Cards Produced And Distributed   After three days with our Northern Ireland Biker Safety Card at the Adelaide – Blackhorse Motorcycle Festival in Belfast, news has reached us that one million of the cards have now been produced and distributed worldwide. The card was well received at the […]

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Cards At The Show

The Biker NI Safety – CRASH CARD –will be at this weekend’s Adelaide Blackhorse Motorcycle Festival, to be held over the next three days in the New King’s Hall Pavilion – Balmoral – Belfast. The CRASH Card was originally designed by paramedics through the Ambulance Motorcycle Club. The card was launched at last year’s motorcycle […]

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A Road Safety Emergency?

At the beginning of the New Year, only 13 days ago, we had started to prepare an article which was the result of discussions concerning the increase of motorcycle fatalities in 2013 compared to 2012. The article was entitled “The Long View” and looked at motorcycle fatalities from 2003 until 2013 in response to the […]

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Royal Seal of Approval

Motorcycle Safety Gets a Royal Seal of Approval UK Paramedic and Secretary General of the UK Ambulance Motorcycle Club, Ian Burrell was rewarded for his services to motorcycle safety in the British New Years Honors List. Ian, the founder of the CRASH card helmet safety program, adopted in the USA as Rider Alert, was made […]

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SHARP Wins Awards

SHARP – The Helmet Safety Scheme has won two prestigious road safety awards – the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award and the 2013 FIM (Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme) Road Safety Award. The SHARP testing programme was developed by the Department For Transport (DfT) in Great Britain and provides motorcyclists with two strands of information […]

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Ireland’s Speed Limits Review

MAG Ireland has reported that new proposals published by a Speed Limits Working Group are to address the inconsistencies in Ireland’s speed limits. MAG Ireland welcomes the recommendations “as a positive step in ensuring a balanced and transparent approach to the setting of limits appropriate to the road in question. In particular, we welcome the […]

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Road Safety Week

Yesterday saw the start of Road Safety Week (18-24 November) in Northern Ireland. Announcing the initiative, last week the Department Of The Environment (DOE) Minister Mark H Durkan, said, “Almost all collisions are the result of human error, so we all need to ensure that our attitudes and our behaviours contribute to road safety in […]

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How Many Devices!

A You Tube video from the FBMC – the Belgian Federation of Angry Bikers – highlights in a “comical” way how many devices can be used, to “not” drive with full attention on the road and to other vehicles! The video – see below – is in French, however sometimes actions speak louder than words! […]

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Road Safety – Crime Pays

The Department of Justice has announced that a specially modified car crash simulator – the first of its kind in Northern Ireland – has been launched by Justice Minister David Ford and Environment Minister Mark H Durkan. “The simulator, a modified Peugeot 207, will start with a car journey on a typical Northern Ireland rural […]

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Distracted Driving

MAG Ireland, the Irish Motorcyclists’ Action Group, reports that at its recent AGM MAG Ireland members voted to adopt a new policy on distracted driving in light of the increase in motorcycle accidents. MAG Ireland say, “It is clear from research carried out by the RSA (Road Safety Authority)  among others, that distracted driving (most […]

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