Glasgow Taxi Cabs Now Carry Rapaid

Glasgow’s taxi drivers are helping save lives by carrying military-grade bandages that can stop people bleeding to death after an accident, fall or even a stabbing. Rapaid bandages have already been installed in thousands of taxis across the UK and they are identified with stickers on the front and rear windows. Cabs carrying them can be flagged down in an emergency and the bandages can be used to stop someone bleeding to death from a serious wound until help arrives.

Glasgow-founded taxi insurance specialist Patons has funded Rapaid kits for an initial 50 cabs in the city. Rapaid founder Alex Chivers distributed the lifesaving kits to drivers at Paton’s Charles Street base – and supportive drivers were queueing up for them.

Dougie McPherson, Glasgow Taxis chairman, said:

Glasgow’s taxi drivers have long been renowned for lending a helping hand to others and this initiative is just another example of this.

All at Glasgow Taxis are proud to support the rollout of Rapaid emergency bandage kits across our fleet and, as the old cliché goes, if it helps just one person in the future, it will have been more than worth it.