Month: November 2017

Cirque du Soleil assembles the tent with wear safety vest

This Thursday, July 13, they lifted the iconic blue reflective material and yellow tent from Cirque du Soleil in the Port of Asunción. Approximately what will be the stage for the Mauna show, the flags of the artistic group wave, in addition to the national pavilions of Canada and Paraguay?

 

The expectations of the process; journalists, photojournalists and reporters received a helmet and reflective safety vest on arrival at the construction site.

For the first time in Latin America, and with the support of the Municipality of Asunción, the participants accompanied and experienced the visual and technical deployment of the facility, which will last for 8 days.

 

The invitation to meet behind the scenes and preparations for the circus was made weeks before. The Company Head, Amelia Lavoie, was available during the tent installation, for interviews.

 

Flags of Cirque du Soleil, from Paraguay and Canada, wave on the property.

The awning has capacity for 2,600-seated people, who will witness the magic of Mauna on Wednesday July 26. There are reflective signs for the guiding.

 

 

New rules with reflective vest to avoid the robberies

They will make a caravan on the Posadas waterfront, in rejection of a new national regulation that requires the wearing of helmets that have the vehicle and passenger’s license number engraved. They will even have to wear a reflective vest that also indicates the domain.

 

The government modified by decree the regulation of the national transit law with the aim of facing the “motorcycle,” the use of motorcycles to commit violent robberies. Decree 171/2017 establishes “the domain identification of the motor vehicle adhered in letters and reflective element numbers, without matching the background color of the helmet” and specifies that this identification must be placed on both sides of the helmet.

 

The motorcycle groups of Posadas expressed their rejection of this new norm that would come into force in June and called a protest caravan on the waterfront “Monsignor Jorge Kemmerer” this Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. The meeting point will be in front of the monument to Andrés.

 

In a dialogue with Misiones Curator, Leandro Borges, organizer of the mobilization, said that they do not agree with this measure, considering it a way of “removing the freedom” of motorcyclists. “We want to walk without a patent, this measure is also contradicted by the homologation of helmets, which states that we do not carry a sticker,” he said.

 

Against motorcycles

Among the measures that will begin to apply throughout the country for the control of more than 7 million motorcycles, is the obligation to have identification of the patent in both the driver’s and passenger’s helmets and in a reflective yellow vest, in case of circulate two people.

 

These requirements will be accompanied by coordination with the service stations, which will not be able to refuel those who do not comply with the regulations. The new regulations are based on the diagnosis that indicates that most of the illegal acts perpetrated by motorcyclists are carried out when more than one person is transferred.

 

The breach of the rules will be considered a serious fault and will involve the immediate hijacking of the motorcycle. In addition, if the owner does not remove the seized motorcycle within 60 days after its retention, it will be decontaminated and compacted.

The useful things to bring in the car

If you go on a road trip, do you know exactly the elements that, as a rule of Traffic, you must carry in your car to drive? In addition to this mandatory safety equipment, we also recommend other accessories that may be very useful for your safety.

 

The cars have to carry some elements that are obligatory and that always have to be in the vehicle in case we should need them at some time. In addition, it is advisable to carry other accessories that in case of emergency can get you out of trouble.

 

Mandatory equipment

Two portable approved hazard-signaling devices (so-called, by their shape, triangles).

A high visibility reflective vest also approved. It is advisable that the vest is inside the passenger compartment (not in the trunk), so you can wear it before getting off the car.

The wheel can be of normal size, auxiliary (cookie wheels), or be replaced by an safety kit. Tools needed to change the wheel. Remember that it is compulsory, to travel in certain places, to carry a set of chains (whether metallic or textile) or winter tires. If the vehicle is public transport, mixed or merchandise, or a maximum authorized mass of more than 3,500 kg, you must carry an extinguisher.

 

Moreover, is the car insurance, glasses and spare lights?

Since the last reform of the Traffic Law came into effect, it is no longer necessary to carry additional glasses in the car, or to include the car insurance receipt between the documentation papers. The traffic agents can consult the informative file of insured vehicles (FIVA), to check if the vehicle has insurance in order. However, although it is not mandatory, our advice is that you include the proof of insurance payment with the rest of the vehicle’s documentation and some spare glasses. It costs nothing and can avoid problems if you forget your glasses or, for whatever reason, the existence of the insurance did not appear or it was possible to connect to this computerized file at the time to obtain the information.

 

As for the replacement lamp set, it is not mandatory either, just like the high visibility vest. There are more and more cars with Xenon or LED lights (replacement can only be done in a professional workshop) and, with respect to “normal” bulbs, it is becoming more and more complicated to disassemble them.

What to do after an accident

After traffic accident or a simple hit on the road many drivers are not clear on how to act. The road is dangerous so you need to be care when you meet an accident and remember to wear a high visibility vest when you go off the car.

 

In a car accident with another vehicle, even if it is a blow without serious consequences, you have to carry out certain procedures in order to receive the corresponding compensation from the car insurance company. However, at those times, even filling a friendly part can be complex. To guide you in these steps, we tell you everything you should do if you suffer an accident on the road and there is another vehicle involved.

 

What to do after an accident

It indicates the place of the accident. Before starting, the negotiations remember to sign the vehicle with the prescribed triangles and put on the reflective vest so that the rest of the drivers can see you. It is important to fill out the forms in a safe area, without risks for those affected.

 

Collect evidence. After checking that there are no injuries and that traffic is not being obstructed, it is advisable to collect data such as the license plate, the make, the model and the color of the opposite vehicle, whether or not we sign a friendly accident report. In addition, it is convenient to take pictures of the vehicle’s damage or collision point to help our car insurance company know what happened.

 

Notify the authorities if there is no agreement. If discrepancies occur between the drivers involved and a common version not reached, it is best to contact a police in safety vest and a municipal agent who will prepare a report.

 

Police fine motorcyclist for not wearing reflective vest

Do motorcyclists have to wear a reflective vest?

That is the question that Mafias Bah monde, 23 years old, has after Friday when he went out for a ride in Temuco on his motorcycle and fined by border police for not wearing a reflective vest.

 

“I was on my way to Librans when I ran into a couple of border police who performed a routine check, they asked me for the papers and since I had everything up to date and in order, I remained calm,” the young man explained to LUN.

He added that “we were finishing when they look at each other and ask each other: ‘What do we do with the reflective safety vest? Did we pass the infraction or not? The border police were not clear what to do.”

 

Bah monde indicated that at the crossroads, one of the border police decided to take the radio and ask, obtaining as a response a ‘yes’, so he must appear at the local police court next January 12. Despite the clarification, the doubts regarding this issue is due to the fact that article 75 of the modified decree 164 of the Ministry of Transport does not specify which vehicles the vest must have.

 

It should be remember that the only obligations of motorcyclists’ clothing are those that appear in Decrees 231 and 234 of the Traffic Law, which are relate to the biker’s clothing and the use of reflective helmet.

 

 

José wear reflective vest protect children on road

The ‘semaphore man’ of Quito has spent 20 years regulating the traffic of the N-232 to the hours of entry and exit of the school. Today he receives a tribute.

 

The children greet José Maria Garcia ‘Machala’ while he, without taking his eyes off the road, checks that the vehicles have stopped when they reach the zebra crossing located next to the entrance to the school Fernando, which he has been attending five times a day for the past 20 years. In all this time, he has only missed his appointment in “very few occasions.” “If someday I do not come, people miss me,” he said. Dressed in a reflective vest, and with the help of a stop sign, warns drivers to stop when they travel on the N-232 national road to allow children to cross. “I am delighted and I am doing it because I love my people very much, and I will be there as long as I can,” he explained, while continuing to monitor the traffic.

 

To recognize their selfless work, the City Council and the association of mothers and fathers of the school have organized this afternoon a tribute at the house of culture. Most of them are wearing the high visibility vest. It will be an emotional act, which will coincide with his 73th birthday, in which he will be give details of the children, an audiovisual project will be screen, and there will be “some surprise.” Next, you will also discover the plaque that has been place in the place that bears his name, and which was decide after a popular consultation in which there was a great deal of the neighbors. The mayor, Morales, stressed, “If someone deserves this recognition, it is Machala.” Not only in Fifth, know his work. Many people who travel through the crossing has met once with the ‘traffic light man’: “It is already a typical image of Quito.”

 

José Maria was a municipal worker and decided to continue providing this retired service: “Many cars and heavy trucks pass through this national highway,” which is a way to increase the safety of pedestrians, said the local official.

 

Of the same opinion they were shown yesterday afternoon at the doors of the school Maria Pillar and Susana, grandmother and mother of students, who acknowledged and appreciated their task: “We are much calmer knowing that he is here stopping the cars. The children pay much attention to him; he is a very dear person in the locality and with wearing a yellow vest.” It is usual to see him minutes before school entry and exit times, but he also collaborates to regulate traffic if there is any exit from the students.

 

These are the characteristics that reflective vest should have

From January 1 on all vehicles must wear with a reflective vest, measure that seeks to reduce traffic accidents and collisions of drivers when they get off the car.

Those who do not comply with the regulations will be committing a slight fault and will have to pay a fine that varies between 0.2 to 0.5 UTM.

 

In order to comply with the law, it is necessary to be clear about the characteristics of the vest that must wear. As of January 1, it will be mandatory to wear the reflective vest on the vehicles; can you identify the reflective vest required by law?

 

Characteristics of the vest

– Yellow fluorescent material

-It must have bands of retro reflective material with a width greater than 50mm

-The vest must be in a place accessible from inside the vehicle, so that the driver who gets off the car does so with this element.

 

According to the decree, these alternatives can use:

– Two horizontal bands bordering the torso separated by a minimum distance of 50mm and bands that joins the upper band of the torso from front to back, passing through each shoulder.

– A horizontal band that is surrounds the torso, and bands that join that from front to back over each shoulder. The 50mm distance should maintain.

– Two horizontal bands are surrounding the torso, separated by a minimum distance of 50 mm. The lower part of the lower band must be at a minimum distance of 50 mm from the lower edge of the safety vest.

 

The reflective vest use for the visualization theme

After the presentation of the six schools that will participate in the final phase of the second school competition “In the voice of children”, last Tuesday in the communal building, NORTE in reflective uniform spoke with the Director General of Transit and Transportation of the Municipality of Rivera.

 

Mauricio referred to the school safe transit contest. He expressed that the contest “is a great success”, because the Department of Rivera is the only country level with this modality, where the Intendance and the Departmental Inspection of Primary act together.

 

“The objective is to generate culture in transit, transfer it to the population, since it is the fundamental tool to lower the accident rate. The idea is to show what is being done from Rivera to the world, “explained the head.

Gonzalez emphasized, “There are already more than 36,000 views in a week. This will serve as an example for the whole population and for the world, being a message of the children, who teach us how to behave in transit.”

 

Referring to the accident figures in the Department of Rivera, he said that this occurs more with motorcycles and mopeds. “In our car park there are more than one hundred thousand vehicles, between the two cities, and sixty thousand motorcycles circulate. For being more dangerous, we are working on the use of the reflective vest, for the visualization theme, “he explained.

 

The Director of Traffic and Transportation noted that “the driver must slow down, respect traffic signals, not use the cell phone”, although he recalled that “there is a correct signaling from the Transit Division, which in two years has been applied a lot and it has the backing of the Departmental Intending. The idea is to continue advancing and counting on the support of the public.”

 

Returning to the theme of the school competition “In the voice of children”, said that the contest “is one more stage of the work of Road Education in schools. Officials go to schools to educate children on road safety, and work with teachers, principals and later in the year, the contest takes place. ”

In Dilbert Cholula’s photographic shot, Education officials give a talk about traffic in the initial education school “Green Land School”.

Cyclists would forced to wear reflective vest

Senators entered a project that provides “the use of high visibility reflective vest during the night and when visibility conditions make it necessary.”

 

“During the night and when visibility conditions make it necessary, bicycle drivers should always wear a high visibility reflective vest.” This is the main slogan of the bill that senators Alejandro Navarro, Lily Perez, and Antonio Horvath entered Congress.

 

Transit establishes, it will have to be studied by the Commission of Transports and Telecommunications. They emphasize that “in spite of the advantages, the bicycle presents like means of transport many cyclists and people. In general, they have difficulties to use it on a daily basis, among which is the insecurity of their cities, whose geography is not adequate to circulate in their streets, except that the drivers of vehicles do not respect their pace and therefore can be victims of an accident traffic”.

 

In addition, the legislators indicated, “Law No. 18.290 says nothing in relation to mandatory safety measures for bicycle drivers during their driving at night and when visibility conditions make it necessary, taking into account the statistics.”

In the same line, they explained, “the security elements allow to prevent traffic accidents and / or reduce the possible damages and injuries that they may cause. In this sense, the implementation and proper use of security elements such as the high visibility reflective vest ostensibly reduce the risk of injury in the event of traffic accidents.”

 

“The use of reflective material considerably reduces the possibility of being run over on public roads, especially in situations of poor visibility, alerting drivers to the situation of risk. If using the high visibility vest allows a visibility of 150 meters, distance that allows to avoid the reflective, it is reduced to about 30 meters when it is not carried, which prevents an adequate reaction from the driver”, highlighted the senators.

Traffic victims in the interurban roads increase by 8%

The number of fatalities in traffic accidents so far in 2017 in Andalusia has reached 167, eight percent more than in the same dates of 2016, year in which 154 reached, according to provisional data from the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) made to 24 hours on interurban roads. On the other hand, in the Andalusia community have occurred so far this year 155 accidents, 12 percent more than the same period last year, where 139 accidents occurred.

 

At the end of October, the month recorded 119 deaths (28 more than the entire month of October a year ago, when 91 deaths were recorded), which makes this October the worst since 2010. That year 174 people died and only in 2011 and 2013, more than a hundred people died in that month (114 and 103, respectively).

 

In this way, October could become the month with the highest number of deaths in 2017, surpassing even those of summer, months that more fatalities usually register on the roads due to the increase in the number of journeys on the road due to the summer period , since June closed with 123 deceased, July with 121 and August with 103. Even the police in safety vest have more work on road,

 

On the other hand, the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard will develop this week in Andalusia a campaign to prevent pedestrians from leaving their vehicle after a breakdown or accident, since more than 10 percent of those killed in accidents road traffic were pedestrians.

 

During this campaign, the agents of the Traffic Association of the Civil Guard will develop specific surveillance and control actions, as well as an information and awareness task with the delivery of a triptych, to try that there are no deaths. To ensure the safety of the driver and other road users, it is mandatory to carry two hazard warning triangles and at least one high visibility reflective vest.