What is a CRASH Card?
The CRASH Card was designed by Paramedics who are passionate about motorcycles. The purpose is to pass on essential information about you, the rider, to paramedics at the road side and medical staff in A & E, in the event of you having a crash and not being able to communicate yourself.
Here at 1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff I have just received mine. It was sent out when I renewed my Bike Insurance.
How does The CRASH Card work?
You will be supplied with a small Green Dot Sticker which you place on the right hand side of your visor or helmet. (I think the helmet is better in case the visor comes free in a collision). The Green Dot sticker alerts Paramedics that you have joined the CRASH Card scheme.
The sticker comes with a small (credit card size- but not plastic) card on which you put your name and contact details together with any essential medical information or history. You then place the card inside the lining of your helmet. The Green Dot Stickers tells the Paramedics what to look for and where.
So if you are unlucky enough to have a crash, and unlucky enough for that crash to be that serious that you can’t speak for yourself then the CRASH Card will do it for you.
Please note if you lend your helmet to a mate make sure you take your CRASH Card out first!
Also remember that the removal of a helmet after a crash is a skilled ‘two man’ operation and unless the casualty is not breathing, should never be attempted without medical or trained assistance. So never attempt to remove another rider’s helmet on your own.
Hopefully you will never need it, and may even forget that it is there….but just in case.
Here at 1st Class Rider Training we support this initiative and I am trying to get a supply of the cards and stickers which we will be happy to distribute.