Road Safety Officers hold motorbike awareness day | Diwrnod Ymwybyddiaeth Beiciau Modur

Road Safety Officers hold motorbike awareness day

CARMARTHENSHIRE County Council road safety officers have been out talking to motorcyclists as part of an initiative to reduce the number of casualties involved in motorcycle collisions.

The total number of motorcyclist casualties on Welsh roads declined in 2016, when compared to 2015 figures (12 per cent decrease).

There were 61 motorcycle casualties in Carmarthenshire in 2016 accounting for 9.2 per cent of the all Wales figure*.

They joined officers from partner agencies at the Owl’s Nest Tea Rooms in Llandovery on Sunday, April 8, to give information and advice.

Those in attendance included the Institute of Advanced Motorists, RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders, Motorcycle Action Group Cymru, Mid and Wet Wales Fire and Rescue Services, Dyfed Powys Police, GoSafe, Cruse Bereavement Care, Blood Bikes Wales  and neighbouring local authorities.

The council encouraged a number of bikers to sign up to their free motorcycle courses Dragon Rider Cymru and Biker Down! Cymru, and gave out dozens of Motorcycle CRASH Cards.

Cllr Hazel Evans, executive board member for environment, said: “The day was a great success with many motorcyclists engaging with us and our partners. Further awareness days will be held throughout the year, as well as other motorcycle events in the county.

“The Council is working with partner agencies to assist with efforts to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed and seriously injured on our roads. It is a priority for the council and partner agencies and much work is underway to educate both motorcycle riders and other drivers in relation to safety and road skills.”

For further information on the courses and events, which are free of charge thanks to road safety grant funding from Welsh Government, visit the council’s website – www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/motorcycling – or Facebook, www.facebook.com/SouthWestWalesMotorcycling and Twitter, www.twitter.com/CarmsRoadSafety .

• Sunday 6^th May – Bikesafe Pembrey Track Experience – Pembrey Race Circuit
• Sunday 3^rd June – West End Café – Llandovery Castle Car Park
• Saturday 7^th/Sunday 8^th July – Llandovery Motorbike Weekend
• Sunday 19^th August – Owl’s Nest Tea Room Diner – Llandovery *(source: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/motor-cycle-user-casualties/?lang=en

Diwrnod Ymwybyddiaeth Beiciau Modur

MAE swyddogion diogelwch ffyrdd Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin wedi bod yn siarad â gyrwyr beiciau modur fel rhan o fenter i leihau nifer y bobl sy’n cael eu hanafu mewn damweiniau beiciau modur.

Gwelwyd gostyngiad yng nghyfanswm y beicwyr a gafodd ddamwain ar ffyrdd Cymru yn 2016, o gymharu â ffigurau 2015 (gostyngiad o 12 y cant).

Cafodd 61 o feicwyr eu hanafu mewn damweiniau beiciau modur yn Sir Gaerfyrddin yn 2016, sy’n cynrychioli 9.2 y cant o ffigur Cymru gyfan*.

Roeddent wedi ymuno â swyddogion o asiantaethau partner yn Owl’s Nest Tea Rooms yn Llanymddyfri ddydd Sul, 8 Ebrill, i roi gwybodaeth a chyngor.

Yn bresennol, roedd Sefydliad y Gyrwyr Safon Uwch, Gyrwyr a Beicwyr Safon Uwch RoSPA, Motorcycle Action Group Cymru, Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru, Heddlu Dyfed-Powys, Gan Bwyll, Gofal Profedigaeth Cruse, Beiciau Gwaed Cymru ac awdurdodau lleol cyfagos.

Roedd y cyngor wedi annog nifer o feicwyr i gofrestru ar gyfer cyrsiau beiciau modur am ddim, sef Dragon Rider Cymru a Biker Down!Cymru, ac wedi dosbarthu dwsinau o Gardiau CRASH Beiciau Modur.

Dywedodd y Cynghorydd Hazel Evans, yr Aelod o’r Bwrdd Gweithredol dros yr Amgylchedd: “Roedd yn ddiwrnod llwyddiannus iawn, wrth i nifer o yrwyr beiciau modur ymgysylltu â ni a’n partneriaid. Bydd diwrnodau ymwybyddiaeth ychwanegol yn cael eu cynnal drwy gydol y flwyddyn, yn ogystal â digwyddiadau beiciau modur eraill yn y sir.

“Mae’r Cyngor yn gweithio gydag asiantaethau partner er mwyn helpu i leihau nifer y gyrwyr beiciau modur sy’n cael eu lladd neu eu hanafu’n ddifrifol ar ein ffyrdd. Mae hyn y flaenoriaeth i’r cyngor ac asiantaethau partner, ac mae llawer o waith yn cael ei wneud i addysgu beicwyr a gyrwyr eraill ynghylch diogelwch a sgiliau’r ffordd.”

I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am y cyrsiau a’r digwyddiadau, sydd am ddim diolch i gyllid grant diogelwch ffyrdd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, ewch i wefan y cyngor – www.sirgar.llyw.cymru/cartref/gwasanaethaur-cyngor/teithio-ffyrdd-a-pharcio/diogelwch-ffyrdd/dragon-rider-cymru/ – neu Facebook, www.facebook.com/BeicioModurDe-OrllewinCymru a Twitter, www.twitter.com/CarmsRoadSafety.

• Dydd Sul 6 Mai – Profiad Trac Bikesafe Pen-bre – Cylch Rasio Pen-bre
• Dydd Sul 3 Mehefin – West End Café – Maes Parcio Castell Llanymddyfri
• Dydd Sadwrn 7/Dydd Sul 8 Gorffennaf – Penwythnos Beiciau Modur Llanymddyfri
• Dydd Sul 19 Awst – Owl’s Nest Tea Room Diner – Llanymddyfri *(ffynhonnell: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/motor-cycle-user-casualties/?skip=1&lang=cy)