If you need reason to wear ID when on the bike

[ThePainInSpain]

Sad but interesting thread, the guy shopes at Decathlon, because Kalenji is a Decathlon brand.

Whilst in Decathlon in Malaga earlier today I commented to the wife that they didn't sell the wrist bands for carrying your contact details and ID, ironic really.

Can anyone tell me where they can be bought from in the UK, I know people going backwards and forwards to the UK all the time and they could bring me one back.

At present I always have my phone with me and the first contact is Aa, which here is the equivalent to ICE in the UK.
Also I always carry my Residencia card, which is basically an ID card with a fingerprint on it and relevant home details.

 

[siadwell]

After reading several stories like this one, I decided to get a RoadID a few months ago in the ankle strap format. It's fairly unobtrusive so I wear it all the time, not just while riding. I know it's a bit macabre but I'd rather my family and friends were informed if something were to happen to me.

Yebbut, what if you have an accident and end up dead in the undergrowth and they don't find you until the foxes have gnawed through your leg and carried your foot off and buried it?

That reminds me, is The Body Farm on tonight?

 

[guttertrash]

Someone who witnessed the aftermath of the accident has posted this on the CTC.

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=55945

 

[funnymummy]

Just one other thought, about keeping trcak of folk....
My son (#1) & I both have the Latitude app on our phones, we can loacte each other quite easily. If one of us is expected home/due somewhere at a certain time, and don't show we can check where we are, a quick phone call will clear up any worries - My son knows that if he calls, gets no answer, no call back within a few minutes & my 'marker' does not move for more then 5 mins - He is to phone for help!

 

[Bluebell72]

Wow funnymummy, that's technology!

I carry my phone, and usually have purse in pannier.

Inside the helmet? If you look as though you've suffered a head injury, the paramedics might not be removing the helmet, it can be better to cut it away.

The son of a friend who is a paramedic in Italy told me how he attended a road accident involving a motorcyclist hitting a road bridge gantry on a foggy night. The guy was unconscious, and when they tugged at the helmet, it came off, with the head still inside.

 

[sdr gb]

I use a Road ID wristband which I've had for a few years now.

A quick search has turned up this site link to iceid which is based in England. The wrist and ankle bands look the same as the ones produced by Road ID but with the plus side of dealing with a British company instead of an American one (although I can't fault the customer service from Road ID).

Hope this is of some use to somebody.

 

[fossyant]

I carry contact numbers with my P***** kit in a plastic wallet.

Ah, just realised it's only in the kit I take out when on the road bikes, so nothing for the commute, or when MTB'ing. Guess where I'm most likely to get flattened.

 

[byegad]

Sad he's not been missed. We as a society seem happy to allow people to live in solitude and presumably loneliness.

I carry an ETA card and my driving licence, not for ID purposes but they'd do, a recumbent trike is too big to put on a bus so ~I'm in the ETAs bike recovery scheme.

 

[deckertim]

I use my work ID card, and have a unlocked phone at all times.

RIP.

The latest update on the Derbyshire Times has named the cyclist.
http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/local/two_killed_in_bike_smash_1_3811019

RIP A very sad story indeed.

 

[ufkacbln]

The phone is not a good idea for the reasons above, plus you don't necessarily know whose phone it is, or whether it is up to date.

Secondly don't worry too much about the delay. Even with ID on the individual it is not uncommon to wait until a positive ID has been made by a relative or friend.


I know when we had deaths on the SAR that it could take time to get the body to a morgue, contact a relative, for them to prepare the body, bring down relatives from a fair distance and then counsel and prepare them for the ordeal of identification, support them afterwards and then sort ou the administration and release details. Then the delay whilst it gets into print or circulated.

This can take several days



Edited... and beware of Latitude other than as a guide. In most phones it acts on the phone signals so is often only partially accurate, and if in an area where masts are limited then updates can be some time (and place) apart.

 

[Zoiders]

It's a good reason to have your bike data chipped.

Dogtags - my shoes are lace and velcro so I would put one under the laces as well.

 

[snorri]

The OP is a very sad case, but it must be very rare for no one to notice a rider is missing.

There was a recent incident locally where a cyclist who lived alone was spotted injured at the roadside by people going to their work in the morning. We still don't know if he had been hit or lost control of his bike, but he had been lying out overnight.

Back to the thread theme, identification would not have been a problem everyone knows him.

 

[Bman]

My Phone contains contacts such as "Mum", "Dad" and "Home". I also carry my wallet with me at all times, which contains my drivers license. I'm pretty sure they can work out who I am from that.

When I was young, and went to my first premier league football match, my dad made me bring ID. I didnt know why until I got a little older and realised. The match was the 1993-94 Merseyside derby, a few years after Hillsborough.

I dont know If I would expect my ICE details to be found in my shoe. Is that really a likely place they will look?

 

[ufkacbln]

Normally one looks for wallets, tags around neck, wrist bands, often as part of a primary or secondary survey. Ankle bands would also get noticed in this scenario

Anything else like shoe tags is not going to be seen in any but the most detailed of assessments.

 

[ufkacbln]

Yebbut, what if you have an accident and end up dead in the undergrowth and they don't find you until the foxes have gnawed through your leg and carried your foot off and buried it?

That reminds me, is The Body Farm on tonight?

Happened on the A3 last year. Investigating another accident, Police found a car in a ditch hidden by undergrowth only yards from the carriageway - complete with a body that had been quietly rotting for about 5 months.

He was wanted for his (alleged) part in a robbery, and when reported missing by his family it was simply assumed he was "on the run"