Police issue safety warning to bikers (From York Press)
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Police issue safety warning to bikers
10:17am Friday 1st June 2012 in News
BIKERS are being urged to ride safe this bank holiday weekend as new statistics show the shocking toll of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on the region’s roads.
Extra police will be patrolling the main motorcycle routes throughout the county over the extended bank holiday weekend as hundreds of bikers are expected to descend on North Yorkshire.
They will be carrying out speed checks as well as handing out advice on the dangers of irresponsible riding.
In the past six years, 79 bikers have been killed in York and North Yorkshire with a further 622 seriously injured.
Insp Vicky Taylor, of North Yorkshire Police, said: “Motorcyclists are more than welcome to come to North Yorkshire as long as they stay within the law and ride responsibly.
“Over the years, far too many bikers have lost their lives on our roads and it is vitally important that we try and prevent any further unnecessary deaths.
“Speed limits are there for a very good reason and I urge all road users - not just bikers - to stick to the rules of the road and help prevent any further tragedies.
“Too many bikers don’t make it home. Make sure that you aren’t one of them.”
A new bikers’ guide to North Yorkshire can be viewed at northyorkshire.police.uk/bikers
Comments(11)
MouseHouse
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12:50pm Fri 1 Jun 12
Kevin Turvey
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1:59pm Fri 1 Jun 12
Most motorcycle accidents involving a car and a bike are NOT speed related!
Driver education and training are the root cause of the problems but this is never addressed.
Attempting to treat the symptoms not the disease as usual!
Car drivers - use your mirrors on a regular basis not just after you have already turned! Concentrate on your driving not on your phone,fag,conversati
on,Sat Nav, sight seeing!
Think of others also using the public road.
Caravan drivers please pull over and let faster vehicles (ones behind you) pass when you can.
Jiffy
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2:58pm Fri 1 Jun 12
Kevin Turvey wrote:Well said Mr Turvey
How about the car drivers with poor observation skills that also cause accidents? Do they not need to be warned to be more observant? Most motorcycle accidents involving a car and a bike are NOT speed related! Driver education and training are the root cause of the problems but this is never addressed. Attempting to treat the symptoms not the disease as usual! Car drivers - use your mirrors on a regular basis not just after you have already turned! Concentrate on your driving not on your phone,fag,conversati on,Sat Nav, sight seeing! Think of others also using the public road. Caravan drivers please pull over and let faster vehicles (ones behind you) pass when you can.
spiritofyork
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3:44pm Fri 1 Jun 12
Kenskoi
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6:04pm Fri 1 Jun 12
york_chap
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6:58pm Fri 1 Jun 12
These few seem to view any vehicle, whether it's doing 40mph or 60mph as something that must be overtaken no matter what. Waiting for 3 seconds until it's safe just won't do.
Most reasonable motorists are rightly tolerant of motorcycles and do check their mirrors, but what I think some of the bikers don't realise is that when you're travelling down an A road at 55mph opposite oncoming traffic, you just do not expect a huge bike to come screaming past a few inches from you. When the bike in question is constantly weaving in and out of traffic at 60-70mph, even checking your mirrors doesn't guarantee you'll see them.
Given the acceleration of some bikes out there, when pushed hard they can appear and be upon you within 3 or 4 of seconds of checking your mirror and seeing an empty road. Often, you can't hear them until they're right upon you either which doesn't help.
PKH
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10:13pm Fri 1 Jun 12
Kevin Turvey wrote:There are also a fair number of serious/fatal accidents where it is just the bike rider running off the road due to excess speed on bends etc.
How about the car drivers with poor observation skills that also cause accidents? Do they not need to be warned to be more observant?
Most motorcycle accidents involving a car and a bike are NOT speed related!
Driver education and training are the root cause of the problems but this is never addressed.
Attempting to treat the symptoms not the disease as usual!
Car drivers - use your mirrors on a regular basis not just after you have already turned! Concentrate on your driving not on your phone,fag,conversati
on,Sat Nav, sight seeing!
Think of others also using the public road.
Caravan drivers please pull over and let faster vehicles (ones behind you) pass when you can.
piaggio1
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11:27pm Fri 1 Jun 12
Pedro
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3:38pm Sat 2 Jun 12
piaggio1 wrote:They are putting up cardboard signs along the B roads in which bikers-going-nowhere constantly get their kicks. Hope it works for one or two, won't for most.
most of em had bikes in the 70s,and have come back to bikeing recently,not noticing how the bikes have proggressed,as in ,faster.safer,we call em ........born agains.weekend warriors,the bike never see,s winter,usually see em at shiptonthorpe cafe/petrol ,all brand new leathers.latest gadgets on the bike,as a rally going scooterist i dont give em a second look.on parr with caravanners to me ,sorry but it,s true
deathwatch
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12:47pm Sun 3 Jun 12
spiritofyork wrote:What a stupid comment from a brain-dead, narrow-minded idiot! I ride and train with the Institute of Advanced Motorcyclists and try to promote safe, responsible motorcycle use. "spiritofyork" is typical of the sort of low IQ prat who thinks everyone who uses the roads and is not in a car " SHOULDN'T BE ON THE ROAD". A ridiculous comment from an ignorant cretin. There ARE bad, dangerous motorcyclists out there - just as there are bad, dangerous "four-wheeled" road users, lorry drivers, cyclists, pedestrians etc. If ALL road users read the Highway Code and observed speed limits and left a 'two second' gap between themselves and the road user in front, (instead of tailgating them), we'd have fewer incidents and fewer people killed or seriously injured. In addition the penalties for drink driving, using phones whilst driving, driving without due care, etc., are paltry and insufficient. Does "spiritofyork" think motorcycle paramedics and police 'shouldn't be on the road', or the volunteers who ride 'Blood Bikes' (totally charity funded by the charity 'White Knights'), who are out on motorcycles, in their own time, not getting paid, saving lives?
Just like their other two-wheeled cousins, they are nothing but a nuisance. If it hasn't got four wheels IT SHOULDN'T BE ON THE ROAD.
If every commuting cyclist forced to use 'four wheels' the roads would be gridlocked.
Pedro says...
12:25pm Fri 1 Jun 12