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andydp
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 Posted: 08/11/06 - 07:24 Post subject: On a serious note - IDs on the road
Local story about unidentifiable jogger. Its a shame it took two days to ID the person. As an aside, why he didn't go run in the State Park is beyond me.
Well worth paying the $ 12 - $ 15 for a "Road ID" of some sort. One fellow at work carries his driver's license and $ 20.00. I have a Road ID on my shoe and carry a cell phone and some $$ in my little bike bag.
Dead jogger's identity eluded police
Pedestrian struck, killed by vehicle was in town for business meeting
By KENNETH C. CROWE II, Staff writer
First published: Friday, August 11, 2006
MALTA -- An out-of-town engineer took no identification with him Tuesday when he went for a run, complicating investigations after he was struck and killed by a vehicle on Route 9.
Two days after a driver was charged in the fatality, police were able to identify the victim as 44-year-old Adam Lawas of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
Lawas was in Saratoga Springs for a meeting at Ball Container Corp. Tuesday. After his meeting wrapped up, Lawas called his wife, Christine, at home with their three young children in Canandaigua, Ontario County.
Full story here:
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=507514&category=SARATOGA&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=8/11/2006
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gretriever
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 07:44 Post subject:
Road ID doesn't mean anything.
Let me rephrase that. This guy could have had that and the appropriate ID on him (which I always understood to mean driver's license and health insurance card) when he was hit. The people who hit him, if they were ne'er-do-wells, could have taken all that from him before taking off.
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andydp
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 07:48 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | Road ID doesn't mean anything.
Let me rephrase that. This guy could have had that and the appropriate ID on him (which I always understood to mean driver's license and health insurance card) when he was hit. The people who hit him, if they were ne'er-do-wells, could have taken all that from him before taking off. |
Its more likely you'd get hit by a hit and run or someone would stop to help after you did get hit. The situation you describe is very rare. Its more likely there would be witnesses or the driver would stop. Whatever you want to bring with you its better to have something on you than absolutely nothing like this guy did.
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TreKay
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 07:49 Post subject:
I need to stop procrastinating and get one, I have wanted one for a while.
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cdnhollywood
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 09:09 Post subject:
I wear an ID On Me (www.idonme.com) all the time now. Well worth the $10.
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 10:20 Post subject:
| TreKay wrote: | | I need to stop procrastinating and get one, I have wanted one for a while. |
I've got the one that velcros around shoelaces. Make sure to tack it on whenever I'm on a long run, out of town or hitting a trail. Keeps the mrs happy 
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Pug
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 11:37 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | TreKay wrote: | | I need to stop procrastinating and get one, I have wanted one for a while. |
I've got the one that velcros around shoelaces. Make sure to tack it on whenever I'm on a long run, out of town or hitting a trail. Keeps the mrs happy |
I have that same Road ID, so unless my shoe goes flying (and if the police saw me with one shoe, hopefully they would look for the other), I'll be identified. There's no way to protect against every eventuality, but at least I'll be identified in the most likely incidents.
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akern
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 11:41 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | jrjo wrote: | | TreKay wrote: | | I need to stop procrastinating and get one, I have wanted one for a while. |
I've got the one that velcros around shoelaces. Make sure to tack it on whenever I'm on a long run, out of town or hitting a trail. Keeps the mrs happy |
I have that same Road ID, so unless my shoe goes flying (and if the police saw me with one shoe, hopefully they would look for the other), I'll be identified. There's no way to protect against every eventuality, but at least I'll be identified in the most likely incidents. |
I have one for my shoe and one for my wrist. The minute I get hit, my shoe and arm will never be seen again.
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TreKay
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 12:54 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | TreKay wrote: | | I need to stop procrastinating and get one, I have wanted one for a while. |
I've got the one that velcros around shoelaces. Make sure to tack it on whenever I'm on a long run, out of town or hitting a trail. Keeps the mrs happy |
Yep actually my wife bugs me about it, I tell I know I know I'll bring something and yet never do. I do need to get it though, especially with fall coming and running in the dark!!
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Cappy
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 14:20 Post subject:
| TreKay wrote: | | jrjo wrote: | | TreKay wrote: | | I need to stop procrastinating and get one, I have wanted one for a while. |
I've got the one that velcros around shoelaces. Make sure to tack it on whenever I'm on a long run, out of town or hitting a trail. Keeps the mrs happy |
Yep actually my wife bugs me about it, I tell I know I know I'll bring something and yet never do. I do need to get it though, especially with fall coming and running in the dark!! |
Takes about five minutes to order online 
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robp
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 14:29 Post subject:
I've got Akern's phone number tattoo'd across my ass - she promised to tell everyone.
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akern
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 14:36 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | I've got Akern's phone number tattoo'd across my ass - she promised to tell everyone. |
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 20:06 Post subject:
I have a roadid that attaches to my shoe but I dont move it every day as I rotate through all my shoes though.
I think I read over in the other place that someone recommened using either the wrist or necklasce since Police and EMT are trained to look for medic alert bracelets.
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Cappy
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Posted: 08/11/06 - 20:52 Post subject:
| Floridaboiler wrote: | | I think I read over in the other place that someone recommened using either the wrist or necklasce since Police and EMT are trained to look for medic alert bracelets. |
Yup that is true, specifically bracelets
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