“We do not want to take the driver’s license at 60”, assured Anoka Weed, traffic safety adviser of the police inspectorate Virden / Sterols in safety vest, right from the start. Because on the “flat country” was only a limited supply of buses and trains. “Old rabbits – safe on the road” was their theme in the police commissariat at Ache, and numerous seniors watched closely their talk.
Regarding the different aspects addressed by Weed, which ranged from “cycling” to “accident runoff”, there were also frequent visitors. Most of them then went home a lot more clever and possibly even more cautiously.
In cycling, many people were annoyed by the “often dangerous fast e-bikes and pedicels”. Weed informed that people with electric bicycles who can drive more than 25 kilometers per hour cannot use the cycle track.
Even if there are road dividers at traffic circles, cyclists would normally have to pay attention to the driveway of the drivers. Signs pointed out. Cyclists need to wear a reflective jacket and then will be allowed to drive a one-way street in the “wrong direction”.
Drivers are only allowed to step speed, just four to seven kilometers per hour. “But pedestrians must not block the entire width of the road, as I have observed several times in Ache,” noted the local contact Kanji Braymer. And how do you behave as a car driver when a bus with a switched warning light flashes to a stop? “As long as he is not standing, he must not be overtaken. Then only with a speed step”, Weed explained the audience.
Anyone who uses his cell phone during the car trip risks a fine of 60 Euros – and his life, but also the uninvolved. “Making calls or entering messages in traffic is so dangerous,” warned the security adviser in the police investigation team. Short-term carelessness can also be fatal. A car with a speed of 50 seconds in two seconds just under 30 meters back.
And how should a driver behave when, for example, he has damaged a strange car in a parking lot? “You have to wait until the injured person comes,” said Anoka Weed. Accident is a crime. “Half of these offenses will be clarified, by the way.”
Finally, she asked the visitors in reflective vest, with which handicaps the elderly would have to reckon. The seeing and hearing are usually lost, but also the ability to react and the mobility, they said. “I regularly go to investigations where this is being tested,” a man betrayed. “In the case of a bad result, I would give my driver’s license.” A woman advised to do sports. Weed encouraged driving training, for example at a driving school.