Highway Care is now offering its BikeGuard Motorcyclist Safety Barrier, a system intended to help tackle motorcyclist road casualty figures. Although motorcyclists make up 1% of traffic, they account for 19% of deaths on UK roads for example and this new system is designed as one component of the safety solution.
February 6, 2012
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1529 Highway Care is now offering its BikeGuard Motorcyclist Safety Barrier, a system intended to help tackle motorcyclist road casualty figures. Although motorcyclists make up 1% of traffic, they account for 19% of deaths on UK roads for example and this new system is designed as one component of the safety solution. The BikeGuard product is a continuous barrier attachment, designed to protect motorcyclists from impacting the support posts of existing safety barrier. With BikeGuard in place, a motorcyclist impacting the barrier will be redirected along the continuous smooth surface of the attachment, and no longer be highly vulnerable to potential injuries caused by impacting the vertical support posts of the existing barrier. BikeGuard is used in places wherever a motorcyclist is most likely to suffer a fall.
Tight curvature bends are the most likely location a motorcyclist may come off, which could be due to a tightening radius, diesel spill or a wet drain cover. BikeGuard can be attached to OBB, TCB and W-beam safety barriers.
