On Identification - Happy Running Safety Month
By: Eva Mossberg
Photo taken and submitted by Eva Mossberg
RoadID: A dog tag for humans for when found in a less than ideal physical and mental condition, allowing emergency medical technicians easy access to personal identification, medical information, and emergency contacts.
After many years of putting myself out there: running in the road at, or before dusk in the dark; cycling on narrow, windy, sometimes slippery roads, cars zipping by at sixty miles per hour; swimming in an ocean stirred up at times by a hurricane, chest-high surf breaking on top of my head without warning, I finally went to www.roadID.com to order what I consider a form of cheap and simple life insurance:
I breeze through line 1: Name and year of birth. Easy!
I get stuck on line 2: City/State - hmm... My family is an ocean away, I recently moved across the state, I own a house 125 miles away from where I work, but I live locally. Where is the home of a gypsy? After some deliberation, I settle on entering the address where my car is registered.
Line 3: Emergency contact. Darn it. For me, this process is getting harder line by line. Family members three thousand miles away can barely help in an emergency; my emergency contacts of six years now lives two hours away; I don't feel comfortable providing the names of my new-found friends - they barely know me! I sigh and decide that an accident can happen anywhere, so location doesn't matter too much... Fortunately, roadID has the option of an interactive account which can be updated online anytime, so if I move, have to add medical information, or new emergency contacts, I can easily do so.
Payment and Shipping Method: Phew, back to easy stuff.
I fill it out and hit send.
Three days later it's in my mail box. I activate it online, put my fire engine red, 3M reflective, washable roadID bracelet on my wrist, ready to take on the world. This time with an added layer of safety, because no amount of reflectors and lights help you once you have been hit...
After many years of putting myself out there: running in the road at, or before dusk in the dark; cycling on narrow, windy, sometimes slippery roads, cars zipping by at sixty miles per hour; swimming in an ocean stirred up at times by a hurricane, chest-high surf breaking on top of my head without warning, I finally went to www.roadID.com to order what I consider a form of cheap and simple life insurance:
I breeze through line 1: Name and year of birth. Easy!
I get stuck on line 2: City/State - hmm... My family is an ocean away, I recently moved across the state, I own a house 125 miles away from where I work, but I live locally. Where is the home of a gypsy? After some deliberation, I settle on entering the address where my car is registered.
Line 3: Emergency contact. Darn it. For me, this process is getting harder line by line. Family members three thousand miles away can barely help in an emergency; my emergency contacts of six years now lives two hours away; I don't feel comfortable providing the names of my new-found friends - they barely know me! I sigh and decide that an accident can happen anywhere, so location doesn't matter too much... Fortunately, roadID has the option of an interactive account which can be updated online anytime, so if I move, have to add medical information, or new emergency contacts, I can easily do so.
Payment and Shipping Method: Phew, back to easy stuff.
I fill it out and hit send.
Three days later it's in my mail box. I activate it online, put my fire engine red, 3M reflective, washable roadID bracelet on my wrist, ready to take on the world. This time with an added layer of safety, because no amount of reflectors and lights help you once you have been hit...
Be safe!
