Dont leave home without ID

[bcipam]

The license copy will do. The Authorities will run a check on it anyway to verify. The insurance card is actually most important. Just trust me on this!!!! Unfortunately I know!

[roughingit]

You must haf your papers!

This law is also true of people just out walking as well. Personally it makes me uneasy...shades of big brother indeed.

[Trekhawk]

You must haf your papers!

This law is also true of people just out walking as well. Personally it makes me uneasy...shades of big brother indeed.

Pleased to see Im not the only one this makes uncomfortable.

[Technotart]

In an ermergency - a case in which life or limb are threatened - you will be taken to the nearest emergency room equipped to handle your level of injury and treated immediately - insurance card or not. You don't get to choose which hospital you go to just because you are concious or have an insurance card, most EMS services have to transport to the closest appropriate level of care for your injury or illness. If it's a 6 of one half a dozen of another sort of thing, you might have a say so, and of course if life or limb are not at risk.

As for ID - always always always carry something with PHONE NUMBERS on it. Your drivers license does not have phone numbers (well it doesn't in Texas anyway, I don't know about other states.)

EMS and ER staff check pockets, bags and shoes in that order pretty much for ID. A seat pack may go unrifled through if no one happens to notice its still on the bike.

I ordered the little metal engraved dog tags.

[Trekhawk]

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I ordered the little metal engraved dog tags.

Technotart - I have one of those and it has all my emergency phone numbers, insurance info, blood group etc. It makes me feel so much better riding knowing if I crash or something they will have all the info they need.

I dont carry any other form of ID - that was pretty much the idea behind the roadid I thought so that you would not have to carry other stuff.

Anyway as I said at the beginning of this thread Im claiming aussie ignorance and leaving my drivers license at home.

[MomOnBike]

I think we have two different issues/concerns going here.

One, I really don't want to think that I always have to carry proof of identity with me. I thought that sort of thing went out with the Soviet Union, and never applied here in the US of A, anyway. humph So I don't. Unless I have my wallet along for other reasons.

From my rather cursury reading of the article in question, the guy probably needed to be pulled over for a bunch of other reasons (riding the one way down a wrong-way street, meth, Gawd only knows what else...), and the cop just added the no papers part as a "being-ugly-in-public" charge. That is, an extra just to make the list longer and more impressive for the judge.

I think I'm just as happy that the guy is off the streets. I don't want people to see me and think "Meth!" when I'm out and about on my bike.

Carrying ID for the EMTs is another issue altogether. We all should. (slinking away guiltily...)

[RTP1031]

I blew up my license a little on a copy machine. I also blew up my insurance card (so I had space to add all my emergency information numbers), placed them back to back and had it laminated. It fits in my underseat bag easily and doesn't get crushed.