Many deaths from motorcycle accident injuries could be prevented claim accident and emergency doctors if air bag jackets were made compulsory.

Air bag jackets are the bikers’ equivalent of a car airbag, they should inflate if the rider is involved in a bike accident and thrown from their bike.

In 2007 motorcycle accidents claimed the lives of 561 riders on our roads.

Despite motorcyclists amounting to only 1% of users on our roads, they make up 20% of fatalities from road accidents.

The Department for Transport although welcoming the safety jacket says that they do not have any plans to change the law to make them compulsory.

One version of the jacket sold by Point Two works by attaching a lead from the jacket to the bike. If the rider falls off the lead detaches causing a replaceable CO2 pressurised canister to inflate the jacket in a fraction of a second, protecting from the neck down to the coccyx of the rider.