READING, Pa. – On Saturday, the Reading Hospital is partnering with Classic Harley Davidson to host “RIDE READY,” an interactive motorcycle safety and emergency response event.<\/p>\n
“These are lifesaving skills,” said Doctor Jennifer Barney from Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
Barney says the event isn’t about telling people to stop riding motorcycles.<\/p>\n
“We’re really just kind of encouraging riders to ride safely and also if something were to happen, what they could do to help themselves or maybe their fellow rider,” said Barney.<\/p>\n
Last year alone, there were more than 2,900 motorcycle crashes in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Reading Hospital treated 63 motorcycle crash-related injuries from January to June this year. In these cases, only 50% were wearing protective equipment\/clothing.<\/p>\n
“Statistically, those injuries that wore less protection, such as helmets or jackets or gloves, had more severe injuries,” said Barney.<\/p>\n
The event will teach participants hands-only CPR, how to stop bleeding, and what to do if you or someone else falls off a bike.<\/p>\n
Barney says teaching first aid and proper road safety can help save lives.<\/p>\n
“And so whether you’re a bike rider or not, these are things that anybody can really find useful,” said Barney.<\/p>\n
Barney says the most important thing is to always wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle<\/p>\n
“We can fix a lot of things in the trauma bay, but the head- everybody is different, and everybody responds differently,” said Barney.<\/p>\n
The event is free to attend and runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Classic Harley-Davidson in Bern Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – On Saturday, the Reading Hospital is partnering with Classic Harley Davidson to host “RIDE READY,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[103967,22395,26030,74253,38701,3185,86547,115056,128,130,129,2791,2410],"class_list":["post-273524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-classic-harley-davidson","tag-cpr","tag-emergency-response","tag-first-aid","tag-helmet","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-motorcycle-safety","tag-protective-equipment","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}