The recently adopted amendment to the law concerning traffic imposes an obligation pedestrians wear reflective elements outside of the village. What it actually is, why we wear, where you can order and buy – and how many of us come?
The new requirement applies to reflective elements made of a material from which the reflected light from another source (headlights). Scenario: walk in reduced visibility on the shoulder unlit roads, winding between the two villages. Have a handy flashlight or light the way mobile enough. Reflective elements are meant primarily called. Bracelets or reflective tapes; often they are retractable some are again provided with Velcro.
“Reflective and fluorescent objects are expensive. All sorts of pendants, badges, iron elements, stickers, tape, etc. on hand. For example, take the haberdashery or bicycle stores” informs on its website BESIP. According to media reports the reflective elements are sold in supermarkets, household goods stores, in drugstores, in newsagents, post offices and petrol stations.
Reflective tape that can, if necessary, quick and easy to use, you can also buy in a number of different e-shops. Internet shopping mentor Heureka.cz after entering the term “reflective tape” into your search engine offers the first position of the following products found retractable reflective tape Force dimensions 3×38 cm. Stands from 15 to 89 CZK, usually around 25 to 29 crowns. “It can be worn rolled over ear bag or a belt on your clothes,” he wrote in his mini-review of one customer online store.
Safety features of reflective materials as instructed BESIP best place towards the end of the sleeves, close to the knees and waist level (for example, cyclists also on a bike helmet). Children can then buy clothes that are already equipped with elements of reflective materials, as they are already so equipped satchel.
Graph “Improved visibility increases safety” The reasons which led the legislature to the adoption of an amendment to Act no. 361/2000 Coll. on the road, in the case of reflective elements clearly preventive. Reflective material at night had seen at a distance three times longer than white clothing and more than ten times greater distance than blue dress. These distances; they have a major impact on whether we can avoid the driver or not. Reflective material is able to reflect incident light to two hundred meter spacing. In contrast, pedestrian wearing dark clothes are in the dark on the road almost invisible…
“Every year die on our roads over seven hundred people. And pedestrians, which are heading the campaign, are one of the most vulnerable groups. Every seventh person in our country dies in a traffic accident as a pedestrian. And this is alarming, “he said last October during the presentation of the campaign BESIP” We are? “, Focused on the visibility of pedestrians, Transport Minister Dan.
In 2014, accidents were a total of 112 pedestrians were killed, 65 of them at night. On the night of the accident thus accounted for over 58% of fatal pedestrian accidents – outside of the village but it was 79%.
The aforementioned amendment to the law on road traffic entered into force on February 20 this year.