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Campaign plan to cut motorbike death toll
Monday 23rd November 2009, 12:47PM GMT.
A major campaign is to be launched in a bid to cut down the number of deaths involving motorcyclists on north Shropshire’s roads, safety experts revealed today.
The Go Safe campaign will be launched in March by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service in partnership with other safety groups.
Details of the new campaign were revealed on Saturday at a meeting at a pub near Market Drayton between bikers, local residents and the emergency services.
Fire, police and road safety professionals attended the Stormy Petrel pub, which is popular with bikers, to talk about plans to reduce motorcycle road deaths in the county.
About 25 residents, who had complained about bikers and how they used the area’s roads, as well as a number of bikers, also attended the meeting.
With eight motorbike riders killed this year on Shropshire roads, a series of safety events planned over the next few months aimed at cutting the death toll were outlined.
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fat lot of good that will do lets have real
prosecution for bad driving coming home this year–on the a49 a group of bikers overtook -on severe bends at speeds of 80 round the next bend–splat
the leader ran into a car comming towards him
the m/cyclist was luckily just looking sorry for himself
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