Nowadays schoolchild choosing a briefcase is not just its color or shape. The other criterion is safety. If Germany has legislated for a long time in this field which requires reflective tape on the briefcase, France is dragging its feet.
Every day in France, a dozen children is a victim of a road accident, injured or killed. In a third of cases, this takes place on foot, on the way to school.
Germany, to avoid such accidents, at least 10% of the back and sides of the binder should be covered with reflective bands and 20% of fluorescent materials.
In France, there is none of that. The Road Safety Association has launched an awareness campaign in the form of a manifesto, “zero children killed on our roads,” including asking using reflective material like reflective heat transfer film on the backpack and satchels younger.
Reflective surfaces allow it to be seen at night, 150 meters. The neon allows to be seen when it rains, it is foggy or it is a bit dark. It increases the ambient light and return to motorists.
Christophe Ramond, director of studies and research of the Association Road safety, also adds that “initiatives” were launched “there thirty years with satchels manufacturers are rigged” but there is no “this safety culture in France as there may be in Germany. It may create a European standard that will promote the commercialization of visible and safe school bags for the children “.
A new model of satchel more secure this year was launched. To try to remedy this lack, the Tennessee brand launches a new model of binder, as described in its manager Frederick: “The trick lies in the fact of having placed security cover in the back very discreet, the child does not have to put the time and when it’s on the way to school, he unfolds it and it comes to cover the entire surface of the binder as a safety vest.”
It is also possible to equip oneself his satchel, all the necessary equipment is cycling radius.