Police iphone app for safer motorcycling

[Monsieur]

Being overtaken at 980mph en route to seaside yesterday by sports bikers clearly on first ride since september may make this a must-have phone app for some.

Lincolnshire Police have designed an app to help riders ride safely around Lincolnshire roads.

May not be everyones cup of tea but if it is used only once and saves one life then its proved its worth

 

[Twotter]

The money to develop the app might have been better spent on sorting out the accident black spots

 

[B4ndit]

The money to develop the app might have been better spent on sorting out the accident black spots

+1

 

[Micky]

Accident black spots?

It's not the road that's dangerous, just the people using it

 

[Norfolk Tiger]

Accident black spots?

It's not the road that's dangerous, just the people using it

+1

 

[polecat]

The money to develop the app might have been better spent on sorting out the accident hot spots

Made it politically correct for you

 

[Twotter]

Thank you

 

[stolzy]

May not be everyones cup of tea but if it is used only once and saves one life then its proved its worth

Unless the money could have been spent in a less PR friendly way and saved a dozen lives.

In fact it wouldn't be too soon to get a bit of rationality into road safety and its policing in general.

 

[GSTourer]

Unless the money could have been spent in a less PR friendly way and saved a dozen lives.

In fact it wouldn't be too soon to get a bit of rationality into road safety and its policing in general.

Trouble is you will never know whether it has saved lives or not so very difficult to quantify.

 

[Big Nick]

Accident black spots?

It's not the road that's dangerous, just the people using it

+2

 

[sidestand]

Lincs Constabulary's PR and road safety might imptove if they had a few more fully marked up & conspicous patrol cars & bikes out there instead of sneaking around in their 'stealth' units.
You ought to see them on bike race days at Cadwell - all sat around drinking tea in the Bikesafe mobile canteen on double time & a day off in lieu on a bank holiday monday, then sneaking out half an hour before the races finish to do a bit of numberplate measuring.

Then you try to get them out because your car has been done over -you struggle to report it because they can't be arsed to man the police station front desk & get a phonecall a week later asking if they can send a SOCO over.

Anyway - rant over, but I think they could spend their money better than on gimmicks

 

[Rasher]

Anyway - rant over, but I think they could spend their money better than on gimmicks

I think there have been far worse gimmicks in the past, this one is likely to catch peoples attention and perhaps will improve a few riders roadcraft

Not so sure this cost a fortune either, could well be a lot of it was done by bike cops who would have been out and about riding anyway.

Better than the usual pull everyone into a laybe for a visort / plate / exhaust check in the name of safety.

A reserved thumbs up from me

 

[MrIFan]

So it would appear that the majority of people who have responded to this thread think that someone else should do someting to compensate for their, and others, incomptent and inadequate riding/driving skills so that when they crash they can blame somebody else rather than taking responsibility for their own actions? No wonder the country is fucked and the roads not safe to be on!!!

 

[Fanum]

The money to develop the app might have been better spent on sorting out the accident black spots

Yep....Let's take out all the twisties, all the corners, all the cambers.

Let's make all roads dead flat, dead straight, linked with light controlled junctions and lined with crash control barriers.

Nobody will die, and everyone will be able to drive or ride from a to b with no risk.

Life will be much better then.

 

[Twotter]

That's a bit of old fashioned Fanum, and I'm guessing a bit on the pricey side too. I was thinking more along the lines of a few signs on the approaches to locations which have had a higher number of accidents. We have those in places out here in the Fens, and it seems to me to be a way that every road user on that particular stretch of road gains an awareness.

 

[stolzy]

Trouble is you will never know whether it has saved lives or not so very difficult to quantify.

There are people who study these things professionally. I can't imagine its more difficult than assessing health interventions.

In health economics they use the cost per life saved and similar measures - I don't have the impression such a rational approach to road safety exists, but maybe they just like to keep is secret so the planners can indulge their prejudices.