In case of injury in a remote location?

[DRM]

I have a Road I.d bracelet with name dob and contact numbers on it as well as a bit of medical info, they also have a free app that allows someone to track you and will contact them if you stop for 5 minutes without disabling the alarm first, when going into the cafe etc.

 

[fatjel]

I always carry my drivers licence and a phone so if someone finds me they know where to send the bits.

I do quite enjoy being many miles from anywhere with only my bike and initiative to get me home

 

[Prometheus]

Greetings from a sunny Manchester.


Recently I've had a spectacular crash
Me and the bike did a full somersault
Then I slid along the tarmac and luckily up a grass bank.
So something which gave give your GPS position
to the ambulance would come in very handy
So I downloaded

OS locate

Then sent a crash test dummy down a Ravine on an old track bike
Bad accident Arm torn off.
Sat next to Fred in the Ravine I text the coordinates to a mate,
who was sat waiting with a OS map.
After half an hour he reckons that my position indicated, is a quarter of a mile West
and one mile North from where I really am.

How can this be my GPS position on the phone is spot on!

I've heard many stories in the past of ambulances not been able to find people.
So I was wondering has anybody else had tested out:
any of these systems, actually in the field?
And what results did they get?

 

[numbnuts]

Greetings from a sunny Manchester.


Recently I've had a spectacular crash
Me and the bike did a full somersault
Then I slid along the tarmac and luckily up a grass bank.
So something which gave give your GPS position
to the ambulance would come in very handy
So I downloaded

OS locate

Then sent a crash test dummy down a Ravine on an old track bike
Bad accident Arm torn off.
Sat next to Fred in the Ravine I text the coordinates to a mate,
who was sat waiting with a OS map.
After half an hour he reckons that my position indicated, is a quarter of a mile West
and one mile North from where I really am.

How can this be my GPS position on the phone is spot on!

I've heard many stories in the past of ambulances not been able to find people.
So I was wondering has anybody else had tested out:
any of these systems, actually in the field?
And what results did they get?

Good point I do geocaching and with my Garmin GPS give a position we use Lat/long, yet when people use their Apps on the phone they say they can't find it. Yet my position is right with Garmin and several GPS sites Google ect all I can think that some Apps are out or the signal they get is not strong enough to give an accurate reading.