NMC urges UK authorities to take heed to bike licence...

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YESTERDAY the information broke that the EU Parliament had ignored widespread recommendation from foyer teams throughout Europe and the UK on revamping now out-of-date bike licence laws.

The article overlaying that story could be discovered right here, together with a supporting web page outlining precisely what the European Fee did/didn’t do could be discovered right here. Briefly, the NMC requested to streamline testing and coaching, placing an emphasis on on-road testing and danger evaluation. Predictably, the European Fee ignored the recommendation, principally leaving testing and coaching in the identical place it has been for fairly a couple of years.

Now the Nationwide Motorcyclists Council (NMC) have known as for the UK authorities to take the lead on bike testing and coaching, and never let the prospect to replace laws go us by. It highlights the UK has ‘slipped down the highway security rankings’ in comparison with European counterparts, dropping from first to fifth primarily based on accident information, and claims that is the UK’s likelihood to show that round and change into ‘leaders in bike security coverage’.

A press release on the NMC web site features a assertion from NMC Govt Director Craig Carey-Clinch mentioned:

“The NMC is in energetic dialogue with the Division for Transport and its businesses on a variety of measures that may make an actual distinction to security. Basic to that is the popularity of motorcycling as a optimistic element in present and future transport insurance policies, as it will unlock security funding each nationally and domestically which could be focused on rider-friendly highway infrastructure, schooling of all highway customers and optimistic measures for mobility by those that selected to journey. The UK can also be able to revise coaching and testing laws so that prime requirements could be linked to an up to date regime which is simpler for novice riders to know and simpler to entry, as set out within the NMC’s proposals.

“The Authorities’s new Motorbike Strategic Focus Group is a really optimistic first step in direction of creating higher total transport and highway security insurance policies and we will probably be urging the group to contemplate the place the UK can change into world leaders in creating proactive insurance policies in direction of bike use and security.”