This has apparently been doing the rounds for a few days now but I only heard about it on the radio on the way home this evening. The East Anglian Ambulance service has launched a nationwide campaign to encourage people to highlight the friends and relatives in their mobile phone contact lists that they’d like medics to contact in case of an emergency by simply putting the letters ICE (which of course stands for In Case of Emergency) in front of the name.
This is a simple, straighforward and sensible idea which will take just a few seconds to set up. And if you’re ever in an accident and the police, paramedics or whoever need to contact someone to tell them what’s happened, now they know exactly who they can call.
The chap being interviewed on the radio (sorry, don’t remember his name, I was busy driving!) suggested putting more than one ICE contact number in your phone. Number them in order of importance to you and also put the name and maybe relationship there as well. So for example you could have “ICE 1 Wife Jane”, “ICE 2 Dad John” and so on.
My own addition to this is that it might also be a good idea to put in “ICE 0 Me” followed by your own name, just in case you don’t have any other identification on you at the time.
A stonkingly good idea
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#1 by annie at July 12th, 2005
That’s a good idea. We should have a campaign like that.
Of course, in America, they are only worried about who your insurance carrier is. If you don’t have any, you may as well lay in the street and die.