First day of spring...a cautionary tale...

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DrNick

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 Wickham, Hampshire
Looked like a lovely day outside - I was of course at work...

I work at the regions major trauma centre where I am an intensive care registrar - today I attended 5 level 1 major trauma calls of which 4 were motorcyclists no doubt brought out by the sunshine...

So to the motorcyclists on here - please take care...
To the drivers - take that second look for motorbikes when pulling out of junctions...
 
DrNick said:
Looked like a lovely day outside - I was of course at work...

I work at the regions major trauma centre where I am an intensive care registrar - today I attended 5 level 1 major trauma calls of which 4 were motorcyclists no doubt brought out by the sunshine...

So to the motorcyclists on here - please take care...
To the drivers - take that second look for motorbikes when pulling out of junctions...
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Must be awful, keep up the amazing work.
 
DrNick said:
I work at the regions major trauma centre where I am an intensive care registrar - today I attended 5 level 1 major trauma calls of which 4 were motorcyclists
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:o heavy day and :thumbsup:
Hope they pulled through.
Hope a nice nurse made you a cup of tea (you being a male doc and all, I get nothing, make my own). Also hope you managed to get home and put your feet up.
 
I always take care pulling out of junctions, but will someone tell these maniac bikers to stop doing 60mph in 30mph zones?

In a village where I used to live (near Mallory Park) weekends were made dangerous by these mad b4st4rds roaring down the main street at ridiculous speeds.

Rant over.
 
DrNick said:
Looked like a lovely day outside - I was of course at work...

I work at the regions major trauma centre where I am an intensive care registrar - today I attended 5 level 1 major trauma calls of which 4 were motorcyclists no doubt brought out by the sunshine...

So to the motorcyclists on here - please take care...
To the drivers - take that second look for motorbikes when pulling out of junctions...
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As a motorcyclist it makes my heart sink every time I hear of another being hurt or even worse. Sound advice Dr Nick, thanks.
 
Hope they pulled through.
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2 were ok and just went straight to theatre, 1 will still be under my care in ICU today and the other I left in neuro theatre but looked like he had an unsurvivable head injury - saw the pics the helicopter guys had taken - country lane, E-class pulling out - cyclist hit screen with head, flipped over car and continued to travel some distance. So easily done, especially with cars having such huge A-pillars these days - make a blind spot about the same size as a motorcyclist.

Hope a nice nurse made you a cup of tea (you being a male doc and all, I get nothing, make my own)
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I am very well looked after :wink: but not just by the female ones :poke: :poke:

Rant over
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I agree with what you say dr_john, - wasnt meant to be a criticism of anybody. Just the shear number yesterday surprisingly got to me.

Lets see what today brings....!
 
Good, sadly "annual" advice. A mix of the odd myopic driver couple with a bike travelling fast and quite literally clear road one second, bike fast approaching the next. Add into the mix that many weekend warriors put their bike away in Autumn and Winter and come out in Spring very rusty ridingwise...although they don't think that they are!
The best time to ride a bike to get to really know it and the art of throttle control is in the wet....and yet what appears to be a big selling point for bikers is "never seen rain".
Keep up the amazing work all of you who put us back together when things go wrong :thumbsup:
 
I only had a couple of scooters so can't call myself a biker but THE only thing stoping me getting an R6 is money right now.

At 29 I have certainly adapted the way I drive to contemplate all possibilities. I would not be able to buy a bike thinking I will end up dead/disabled.

Naive?
 
DrNick said:
Looked like a lovely day outside - I was of course at work...

I work at the regions major trauma centre where I am an intensive care registrar - today I attended 5 level 1 major trauma calls of which 4 were motorcyclists no doubt brought out by the sunshine...

So to the motorcyclists on here - please take care...
To the drivers - take that second look for motorbikes when pulling out of junctions...
Click to expand...

I'm working at a major trauma centre in Sydney and we see patients flown in from all over New South Wales as well as from within the city. There don't seem to be as many motorcycle injuries here as in the UK, but the injuries sustained from car accidents are much more severe. I used to work at King's College Hospital (a major trauma centre in London) and the patients with the most severe injuries were usually local pedestrians and cyclists, falls from a height, and bikers from Brands Hatch or the roads of Kent and Sussex. Car occupants would only sustain life threatening injuries when involved in very high speed RTCs typically involving collisions with immovable objects such as trees or trucks. Here in Australia, the majority of severely injured patients are the drivers of cars. Many have head, spinal and long bone injuries from relatively lower energy collisions. I think this is probably a consequence of the average age of cars being greater, with twenty year old vehicles a common sight even in the affluent areas of the Lower North Shore. I'm sure crash barriers must be used less widely too, perhaps due to the vast distances between towns and cities.

I think we're fairly fortunate in the UK as the roads are safe and the provision of health care in regional trauma centres is both excellent and rapidly available through air ambulance services. I have the option of working in a country town at weekends. At a mere 400km inland from Sydney it is not terribly isolated, yet some patients have a round trip of 700km when they visit their local hospital!
 
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