Arizona Motorcycle Safety & Awareness Foundation expands its road-related programs

For more than 10 years, Arizona Motorcycle Safety & Awareness Foundation (AMSAF) has played a leading role in the effort to reduce the number of crashes and fatalities because of distracted driving and
a lack of motorcycle training.
 
AMSAF works with numerous business partners and sponsors including local businesses, healthcare entities, the State of Arizona, police departments, legal and other entities, and individuals, to help decrease the number of distracted and DUI-impaired drivers and to provide scholarships, statewide, to train motorcyclists how to ride more defensively.
 
“We could not complete our programs without the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety grants,” says Mick Degn, AMSAF executive director.
 
AMSAF steadily built its reputation after creating the first discounted training for motorcycle riders statewide.
 
” Too many riders have no formal training, which is dangerous in terms of defensive riding,” says Degn, “This program gives them the tools they need and provides riders with their needed endorsement.”

AMSAF next developed, and continues to promote, a helmet assistance program that helps individuals garner a high-quality DOT full face or modular helmet for a major savings. The program is growing in popularity and support, with 1,000-plus people already enjoying critical helmet safety. Myriad motorcycle businesses and suppliers embrace the program.
 
The non-profit next became a spokesperson and committed supporter of Share the Road, a statewide Arizona effort to build an even stronger awareness about the need for Arizonans to share the road and not be undistracted while driving. Share the Road is a statewide public awareness effort aimed at focusing Arizona motorists and riders on the critical need to be undistracted when driving.
 
Most recently, AMSAF began partnering with Accident Scene Management to help reduce crashes and fatalities at the scene of the motor vehicle crashes. Accident Scene Management (ASM), DBA Road Guardians, is a non-profit organization established in 1996. The mission of the organization is to reduce injuries and fatalities to motorcyclists through first response education. ASM is the largest and most recognized motorcycle trauma training organization in the world. Its specialists teach academic classes to motorcyclists introducing a logical approach to minimizing injuries. Critical skills such as moving the injured, helmet removal, jaw thrust rescue breathing and tourniquet, and all are demonstrated and practiced.
 
“Since the beginning, AMSAF has believed in education,” says Degn, “Education, safety and awareness are part of our expanding mission to help the community.”
 
AMSAF’s mission is to promote motorcycle safety and awareness and help reduce crashes and fatalities in Arizona. Motorcycle crashes is not just a motorcycle rider problem, it is a community problem. Motorcycle crashes are about 50% the fault of the motorcycle rider. We all must be careful and looking out for the other, no matter if it is a caged vehicle or motorcycle.
 
AMSAF is a nonprofit 501c3 Foundation and we survive to help save lives through your donation, Sponsorship and Grants that we go after. Ride it Forward and help AMSAF grow by giving a donation to our Foundation. Your donation is tax deductible and can help someone.