A&E message targets us

North Yorks police have launched their ‘2006 Motorcycle Safety Campaign’ in typically positive style – with a man in a wheelchair outside an A&E department.

North Yorks have been responsible in the past for a series of draconian campaigns targeting speeding bikers – which have ended up netting more speeding drivers time after time.
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This time their ‘Motorcycle Safety Campaign’ does carry a message to drivers to be more aware of riders. The biker they have called in to help the launch is a 39-year old victim of a collision with a car in 1998.

The launch – on Tuesday, April 4 – was held at the A&E department of the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton and will be attended by Dr Mike Fenwick, A&E Consultant at Friarage Hospital, North Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable David Collins and David Lindsay, from North Yorkshire County Council’s Road Safety Team.

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From today all motorcyclists stopped by NYP officers will be offered a place on a £50 course, which will be part classroom workshop, part an observed ride with an advanced Police rider.

The course will also be promoted from the Bike Safe display caravan which will visit events and places where riders gather, from the Superbike races at Croft to the Sherburn milk bar.

Mr Collins said: “We have in place the resources and system for catching the idiot minority – the extreme speeders, the wheely show-offs, the selfish boy-racers with race exhausts which wreck the peace for everyone else.

“And we believe we have got the message of updating riding skills to the ‘born-again bikers’ Bike Safe was originally aimed at.

“Now we are moving on to the riders in between those two groups.

“These are the motorcyclists who may not have the skill to match the performance of their machines or who do take the occasional liberty with the speed limit,or frighten themselves with an ill-judged line on an unfamiliar corner. Our aim is simply to share the huge experience of Police motorcyclists with riders like these, then point them towards improving their own skills.”