Video: Air bag jacket 'could save lives'

news.bbc.co ^ | By Dan Whitworth Newsbeat motoring reporter

[JoeProBono]

Dozens of motorcyclists' lives could be saved every year if air bag jackets were made compulsory, accident and emergency doctors have said.

The jackets are the equivalent of car air bags and inflate if the rider is thrown off during a crash.

[JoeProBono]

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[Moonman62]

More lives could be save if they didn’t drive like idiots.

[svcw]

Yea, air bags. I have been in two car accidents. One, the air bag deployed and I was taken by ambulance to the hospital because I had a sever allergic reaction to the material in the air bag. The second car accident, the seat beat snapped my collar bone and detached two muscles in my shoulder.
I just looooove safety devices.

[Krankor]

[acoulterfan]

LOL!

[nbhunt]

in my state, usually they don’t even wear the helmet.....it’s not mandatory. It use to be, but they changed it a few years back. Under 18 is mandatory.

[SECURE AMERICA]

I rode motorcycle for years in the state of Pennsylvania until the day the required helmet law went into effect.
Sold my bike and rode no more. Then when the mandatory helmet law was repealed I bought a new bike and we have ridden thousands of miles since.
You ride a motorcycle for FREEDOM. Not to be wrapped up in a oversized inflatable condom....

[JoeProBono]

Concept Airbags

[autumnraine]

I want one of those for my son and husband!!

I am going to google them now.

[Jack Wilson]

I read somewhere that these aren’t available in the US because of liability fears by the manufacturer(lawsuits when they don’t work perfectly every time).

[dainbramaged]

Medical types refer to them as donorcycles.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Richard Kimball]

Oh. Good. Grief. These clowns won’t be happy until everyone is rolling around in a hamster ball. All day. With air bags.

[mamelukesabre]

I’ve known two chics badly injured while riding on back of a motorcycle.

One was rear ended by a car

one fell off like in your clip.

I knew both of them very well, and they were both hurt about the same time. I immediately put the biggest, heaviest, ugliest, safest sissy bar on the back of my harley that I could find.

I don’t want anyone getting hurt on my bike, that would be horrible. Now I’m going to research these airbag jackets. Not for myself, but for my passengers.

[JoeProBono]

[Squawk 8888]

the seat beat snapped my collar bone and detached two muscles in my shoulder.

If you hit hard enough for the seatbelt to break a bone, think of what the windshield could have done to your head...

[AlaskaErik]

I rode motorcycle for years in the state of Pennsylvania until the day the required helmet law went into effect.

My sentiments, exactly. The day Alaska enacts a helmet law is the day I stop riding.

[Daffynition]

I am honored.

[martin_fierro]

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It's all fun and games until the jacket accidentally deploys.

[JoeProBono]