Highlights the importance of wearing reflective band

Still applies to “see and be seen.” Visibility of pedestrians and cyclists is one of the key moments of their safety. The focus should be on the consistent use of retro reflective elements, it is good that today are aware of the manufacturers of clothing and footwear and lots of sports items of clothing already has incorporated these elements of production.

 

In addition, this year is in effect the amendment of the operation where the movement outside the illuminated portion of villages and towns, the use of reflective materials required. But worth mentioning is also the lighting control functionality on our wheeled darlings. And these are bicycles, motorcycles and cars. It is good to check if everything is lit as it should, if possible, get your check if we have the headlights properly adjusted. With wrong oncoming headlights can dazzle, but does not have lights lit up the necessary distance. Worn light dish or plastic housing dimmed considerably reduces the efficiency of light. Even the bulbs need to be replaced after several years.

 

Increasingly, we will also meet mostly with morning fog and driving in fog is one of the most dangerous. But that’s probably all aware of them.

Slowly changing, stability and weather related adhesion. Wet road in the evening or in the morning has fewer grips than in the rain. And to that we would fall leaves from the trees and it was really slippery, braking can have in extreme cases up to several times longer braking distances.

Therefore, among other things, it is worth checking the tread depth on tires, hot in summer and when loaded the car on the way to vacation wear out much faster than in normal operation. Worn tire combined with the slippery road, it is a deadly cocktail.

 

After the holidays is probably the most people rested than during the current year. Therefore, they should be seen on the roads and sidewalks just calm, smiling and concentrating people. Unfortunately, this is but usually not.

Stress at work after returning, piled and unfulfilled tasks dispatching children to school and have to trouble-laws or envious neighbor, they can play even with individual. To sum up in one sentence, calm and smiling, with the vehicle in proper condition, knowing the risks of autumn and the eternal problem of visibility we feel on the road much better and safer.

 

“We are?” – We want to see you next time!

“Every lost life is wasted, especially when many accidents can be easily avoided. Therefore, BPA sport marketing company decided to support the campaign “We are?” Reflective vest can save lives not only fans who returns home after dark from a hockey match, “explains Jana – Chairman and CEO of BPA.

“Sport is an ideal form of education, and we are pleased to be involved in promoting traffic safety. Each of us is a driver and realizes that extending reflective elements to help the company to greater safety on our roads, “explains Chairman HC Sparta reasons why the campaign also supported his team.

 

Patrick Karmas, managing director of PSG Slim, adds: “We care about the safety of fans not only during the hockey game, but also the way to the stadium and back. The campaign” We are? “Has a great sense of safety, so we fully support.”

Mark Chile and Team HC Ocular Trine: “Security is not only our fans, for us, a very important thing. Hockey matches usually ends at a time when it is dark outside, and therefore consider campaign promoting reflective elements, and thus better visibility of pedestrians, as very valuable. ”

 

“It’s not just an obligation for pedestrians to use reflective elements, which is valid from February 20 this year. We want to be reflective tape or other reflective elements become as commonplace as in winter gloves or hats. It’s a small thing, which is, however, the value of human life, “says the head of Road Safety Pastor Martin and adds:

 

“After every match and in the winter on matches is heading to stadiums tens of thousands of people. We are therefore pleased that, thanks to the clubs every stadium will be able to remind fans that the reflective tape them can save lives. “

Reflective tape for pedestrians: why are we wearing?

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.