Revolution on the road! Today, at midnight, a new duty began to apply to pedestrians, who now have to wear reflective material elements at night and in poor visibility to be well visible, otherwise, they face a fine of up to two and a half thousand crowns. But as we found out tonight, pedestrians hardly know about it, so they don’t.
People do not know about the new regulation at all, or simply because they are to have reflective elements on them. People returning home along the road at night are not visible at all. From today on, police officers can impose a fine of up to two thousand fines on unenlightened pedestrians;
For example, some pubs are already thinking of getting reflective tapes or reflective vests for their regulars and lending them for their night return home.
Police throughout the country in the coming days and weeks plan special night events focused on pedestrian controls. In one breath, however, they promise to be a little more benevolent about fines for offenses.
For example, the measure has already been introduced in Slovakia, and in five years of operation, the number of killed pedestrians has decreased by almost half. Over the past three years, more than five hundred pedestrians have died in the Czech Republic, of which more than three hundred at night.
Reflective tape can save a life. A person on the road is almost invisible to the driver without reduced visibility. Also, if the pedestrian is wearing dark clothing, the driver’s reaction time is halved.
The number of accidents in which pedestrians die on the roads is alarming every year. On the last Thursday in the evening under the wheels of the car died a man, which the driver probably overlooked. The reflective tape might have saved his life.
For example, the newly-baked mother Kateřina from České Budějovice leaves nothing to chance: “Not only does our stroller itself have some reflective elements, reflex points, but I have added tapes to the stroller because I want us to be well seen when it’s dark or dark.”
But even wearing a tape has its principles. It should be located on the side facing the center of the road so that the driver who is driving against can see exactly where the pedestrian is and how far it reaches.