The National Road Safety Unit and the Municipality of Montevideo initiated a traffic safety campaign aimed at motorcyclists on Friday. The measures include the free delivery of reflective safety vests. It is an educational campaign whose objective to prevent accidents and reduce the number of people injured and killed in accidents.
As reported every Friday in May, inspectors of the commune will be controlling the use of reflective garments in different points of the capital. The campaign aims to spread the obligatory nature of these garments as established by the latest transit law that began in March this year, Unease’s secretary Pablo told the newspaper El Observatory.
Although fines are already applied to drivers who do not wear reflective vests on national routes, this still does not happen in Montevideo. Isthmuses explained that the fines would begin to be applied in the capital starting in July, once the maximum term established by law for the dissemination of these new requirements has expired.
Inspectors of the quartermaster will be distributed in various points of the city, performing the usual documentation control for motorcyclists and the like. The controls will be carried out every Friday in two shifts: between 8 and 12 o’clock and between 3 and 7 o’clock.
During these checks, the inspectors will inform the motorcyclists about the obligatory nature of these reflective garments, and will even facilitate access to them for those drivers who do not have it.
The use of this security element is mandatory for those who travel by motorcycle or similar, as stipulated in article 7 of Law 19.061. This indicates that the “permanent use during its circulation in all public roads” of vest, jacket or reflective bands. If not used, the fine amounts to about 403 pesos (0.5 resettable units) per person.