Would YOU know what to do if you came across a road accident when out on a run?

If the answer is NO, You need a First Bike on Scene course.

No one goes out on their bike looking for an accedent, but thanks to their ability to filter through traffic tailbacks bikers are often among the first at the scene, .

The official time for an ambulance to get to the scene of a collision is 8 minutes.

That’s in an urban area, not over the Pennines or some of the other remote twisty roads we like to use. The air ambulance will be able to get there quicker, but its still going to take time, time that a casualty doesn’t have.

20% of trauma patients die from an obstructed airway. Put simply they can’t breathe, they will die in about 6 minutes. Other than that they would have survived the accident.

That’s over 2000 people who would be alive today if someone had known what to do in the vital few minutes.

First Bike on Scene (FBoS) is a full day course giving essential life saving skills to motorcyclists. Delivered by PARAMEDICS and EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS, FBoS is recommended for anyone who rides a bike and may need to give life saving first aid at a road accident.

FBoS is the only course approved by:

The Faculty of PreHospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The Motorcycle Industry Association and Devitt insurance, who give a 5% insurance discount on successful completion of the course.

the course covers:

• Protecting the scene Trauma and mechanism of injury
  
• Snatch rescue
  
• basic life support (CPR)
  
• Spinal management
  
• Removal of crash helmets, when and how
  

The cost is £60.00 per person, less than a good night out! Courses run throughout the year at our training centre in Barnsley, or for bike clubs and groups we can arrange to come to you, email or ring us for details.

It’s not going to save your life, but it could save your mate or another biker. The more FBoS trained riders on the road, the better it is for all of us.