Month: January 2019

SAXON FIRST CLIPPERS RECEIVE SAFETY VESTS

School in sight. Kids in view. “, This is the motto of this year’s security campaign for first graders of the ADAC Foundation, in which more than 36,000 – from West Germany 760,000 – safety vests are distributed to first graders in Saxony.

As a prelude, Saxony’s Minister of Education Christian Pizarro visited the 95th elementary school “Caroline Neuter” in Dresden today. Together with representatives of the active partners, he presented the West to 104 ABC shooters. Minister of Education Christian Pizarro thanks the ADAC Foundation and the Deutschmark Post DHL Group for this important event: “The best protection for our new school students is to be seen. The girls and boys with vest are visible at dusk up to 150 meters for motorists. That’s five times as far as dark-clad children, “says Pizarro. The Minister also pointed out that traffic education was firmly anchored in the elementary school curriculum. Thus, in the first to fourth grade in the subject “Minehunter” the most important traffic rules and behavior are taught.

Wearing a safety vest with reflective tapes gives children and parents extra security when, in the fall, many first graders first master the way to school in the dark. Elementary school students often cannot properly assess the dangers on the roads and because of their height, they often lack an overview. In addition, the directional hearing is not yet pronounced and the field of view is limited. So the children can not always recognize approaching road users “out of the corner of their eyes”.

The signal effect of the belonging safety vest of the ADAC Foundation makes children visible from afar for all other road users. An effect that protects you not only on the way to school but also during your free time. It’s necessary to carry reflective materials.Helmet Bishkek, the board member for traffic and technology of the ADAC Saxony, sees the parents primarily responsible. “The safety vest only serves its purpose when worn. That should just be a matter of course. ”

The entire logistics – shipping, customs clearance, packaging, and shipping – from 30,000 parcels to 16,000 elementary schools will be provided free of charge by Deutschmark Post DHL as a contribution to cooperation. “We are proud to be involved in this important task. With our expertise as a logistics provider, we ensure that the safety vests arrive wherever they are needed: directly in elementary schools, directly with the girls and boys who, as first graders, often make their first independent steps as road users, “says Ina Dietrich , Head of the Department of Transport at the Deutschmark Post Dresden branch.

CHT survey shows more than 20% of cyclists ride at night without lights

Bicycle fires play a vital role in preventing accidents. A TCS survey carried out in the nine largest Swiss cities shows that there is still much to be done in this area. Thus, more than 20% of cyclists were driving at night without lighting and putting themselves in danger as well as other road users. In Geneva, there were even more than 50% of bicycles without traffic lights. With this survey, the TCS wants to send a clear message as part of the “Day of Light” and help raise awareness of this fundamental issue.

Of the bicycles surveyed, nearly 80% were properly equipped with front and rear lights, but the lighting was sometimes insufficient. The results differ a lot in different cities. The city of Aura (AG) is at the top of the list: 100% of the bikes tested were correctly equipped. Geneva, where barely half of the cyclists controlled circulated with adequate lighting, inherited the red lantern.

“Cyclists without fires do not only compromise their own safety. While driving without lighting, they also endanger other road users. Poor visibility is a common cause of accidents. Many of them could be avoided at little cost, “says TCS Communication & Campaign Manager Helmet Gruyere.

The risk of an accident is three times higher at night or in the dark than the day. If you add rain, snow or a backlight, it can even be multiplied by ten. Adequate lighting is important for two reasons: it increases the safety of cyclists because they themselves can better identify hazards, and it allows other road users to notice them earlier.

Rules in Switzerland

When it comes to bicycle lighting, the rules are clear: the bicycle must have a white light at the front and a red light at the rear. Both lights must be non-flashing and visible at a distance of 100 meters. In principle, the majority of commercially available bicycle lights meet these legal requirements. Nevertheless, there are better or less adapted lighting according to the needs and the different types of bicycles (see the TCS (2016)). In any case, it is important to be perfectly visible.

The importance of reflective clothing

In poor visibility, a person wearing dark clothing is seen by motorists only 25 meters away. In this case, it is often too late. Clothing with reflective tapes or reflective elements is visible at 140 meters and gives other road users more time to react. The fashion industry and distribution have realized that it is impossible to generalize the reflective vest for practical and aesthetic reasons. But today, there are many products on the market that reconcile style and safety. The MADE VISIBLE campaign supported by the Road Safety Fund wants to encourage this development by offering on its website a useful overview of the solutions available and easy to implement on a daily basis.

The “Safe holidays 2019” campaign has started

Pupils from five provinces already have winter holidays. As every year, at that time, the police and inspectors of the Main Inspectorate of Road Transport are inspecting coaches carrying children to rest. They implemented as part of the “Safe holidays 2019”.

“The most important in connection with the beginning of winter holidays are safe to access to the place of rest of children and young people and all those who accompany them,” said Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk on Saturday.

On Saturday, in the parking lot at 7 national roads, the Minister of Infrastructure and the Chief Inspector of Road Transport participated in the control of coaches starting this year’s campaign “Safe holidays 2019”.

From Saturday to January 27, there will be holidays for students from the following provinces: Pomeranian, Lesser Poland, and Greater Poland.

The minister reminded that the 16th Road Transport Inspectorate, apart from the normal activities on national roads, pays particular attention to the safety of children who are going on vacations and holidays.

“Checks are not aimed at restrictive action on drivers and bus owners. The aim is to ensure that the buses are in a proper technical condition, do not pose a threat to other road users, especially to passengers whom they are transporting,” Minister Adamczyk emphasized.

“It is important that the drivers who manage these buses meet all the standards have the appropriate qualifications, certificates, not overtired, which is extremely important and they were in an absolute state of sobriety,” he stressed.

Minister Adamczyk added that today entrepreneurs already know that no bus, which children and young people go to wintering grounds and return from them cannot have faults.

“Parents who send their children to rest should be sure that they will be safely and safely return from this rest,” emphasized Adamczyk. Chief Inspector of Road Transport, Alvin, said that inspectors will control coaches until the last days of holidays in all provinces.

He added that parents who want the vehicle to be checked should contact the Provincial Road Transport Inspectorate in advance.

Buses will also be controlled in holiday resorts. ITD inspectors throughout the winter holidays will check, among others technical condition of vehicles braking and steering system, their correct lighting, tires.

A year ago, during the holidays, the Road Transport Inspection inspected 1,300 vehicles, 53 registration documents were stopped, 21 coaches (about 1.6%) were in a very bad technical condition and a driving ban was issued. All drivers were sober. Inspectors imposed 296 criminal penalties.

Alvin reminded that drivers should be rested and respect the permissible working time, and if they are going on a long route, have an alternate. Daily, the driver can drive a maximum of 10 hours twice a week, on the other days of 9 hours, and after 4.5 hours of continuous driving should take a minimum of 45 minutes break.

Małopolskie Province Governor Pieter Wick said that in 1300 facilities in Małopolskie, children and youth from all over the country will be resting. He appealed recalling the recent tragedy in the escape room so that the guardians and parents would pay attention to how they spend their children’s time.

The Deputy Marshal of the voivodeship, Lukasz Smock, said that the advantages of Małopolskie make everyone go towards the winter capital – Zakopane. “Resorts, Highlanders are prepared to receive guests, young people, tourists, and the slopes are snowed,” said Smock.

Adamczyk appealed to entrepreneurs dealing with transport, drivers and all persons who go on an individual vacation: do not hurry, let’s drive safely, equip the cars with car seats and everything necessary to transport children, keep the sense on the road.

On Saturday morning, the Minister of Infrastructure was handed over to all drivers who had no control, handed a plush crocodile – an ITD mascot, and the children received reflective vests, armbands with reflective materials, and scarves.

Tips to walk safely in the dark

The darkest days of the year are rapidly approaching. For many runners that mean training before the sun rises, or after work, when it is pitch dark. With our tips, you also keep it safe during those dark running training sessions.

  1. Fluorescent is the new black

The more striking your clothes, the greater the chance that other road users will notice you from afar. So let your black standard outfits hang in the closet and put on your most flashy sports clothes. Fashion guru Jani may not like it, but you will receive bonus points from us if you combine fluorescent with reflective material. Nowadays there are even sprays that lay a temporary reflective layer over your clothes. Handy!

  1. Invest in lighting

With fluorescent and reflective clothing, you are already well on your way. What is much safer? Taking care of your own lighting! This makes you appear on the floor in front of you so that you see where you have to put your feet. And, of course, drivers see from a great distance that a runner is arriving. Do not just think of white front light such as a headlight, but also a red backlight, for example, a run light that you comfortably wear in a “harness”.

Sdis deploys new outfits for its firefighters

The new outfits distributed to firefighters no longer have reflective strips. The Departmental Fire and Rescue Service evokes reinforced security measures.

The Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) has been providing new uniforms for professional firefighters and volunteers for a year. Indeed, the SPF1 uniforms replaced by the TSI uniforms (for “service and intervention clothing”). This change aims to “modernize the old military outfit used for forty years and that came to an end,” says the commander David Roux.

The end of the reflective strips makes react

The Directorate of Civil Security, attached to the Ministry of the Interior, has made several adjustments to propose an outfit being modern, comfortable and ergonomic. But apart from the shape of the collar and the trousers, the absence of reflective strips near the shoulders and ankles challenges.

And a volunteer firefighter, Chief Warrant Officer Luc Darden, jumped up: “When we come to an accident and get out of the truck, the first thing we put on the ground is the foot. “Without reflective tape on the lower limbs, firefighter Braid fears for his safety and that of his colleagues while they are brought to intervene in villages sometimes not provided with public lighting:” I am afraid that motorists do not see any more firefighters on the roadsides, especially at night, and there are deaths. As a team leader, when we go to six I want us all to come back. ”

The two reflective strips placed at the height of the shoulders and legs met the high visibility standards of yesteryear, but “these have evolved,” says Commander Roux. A dramatic event notably upset the precautions taken in terms of visibility and safety in a general way. On November 29, 2002, five firefighters died during a road accident, all mowed by a car launched at nearly 160 km / h on a limited portion of 90 km / h.

The Ministry of the Interior then entrusted Colonel Christian Porn, head of the Civil Protection Inspectorate, with the task of studying and making proposals to improve the active and passive safety of the workers. The recommendations include improved visibility of personnel and vehicles in intervention.

No bands but a reflective vest

New recommendations made in terms of high visibility and in addition to a reinforced markup and new instructions addressed to fire and rescue centers in case of intervention on public roads, the firefighters equipped with yellow or red reflective vests that they put on over their TSI or SPF1 outfit.

“The vest ensures the safety of the agents and the visibility of the latter is ensured as long as they are in their vehicle thanks to the markup (a perimeter of security is assured thanks to cones),” pleads the commander David Roux, while specifying that the reflective materials have not disappeared on the outfits used to fight fires.

Finally, the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service specifies that the new TSI outfits are made from fireproof materials and that the number of closures and pockets has been revised upwards.

Half a thousand vests went to kindergartens and nurseries

300 reflective vests were founded by the Bridgestone factory and the rest of the city.

Reflective vests with images of a koala bear and an elephant have reached children from Stargard kindergartens and a municipal nursery today. Some of them were funded by the Bridgestone factory.

“We know how important safety is, we produce tires,” says Pieter, president of Bridgestone Stargard. “We often take part in various actions aimed at promoting safety, including wearing reflective clothing with reflective fabrics by pedestrians and cyclists.”

The children did not hide their satisfaction with the vests.

“They are great! the little ones were happy. We will wear them on walks.”

For over half a thousand nurseries and kindergarten children, vests were picked up at the City Hall by the headmasters or employees of these institutions.

This is another preventive action in the city. Recently, reflections with reflective tapes were handed out to the cyclists by the municipal police, as well as members of the presidential advisory team, who handed them over to the oldest inhabitants of the city.

The Senior in the Dark passed the bypass

A 90-year-old woman died in a cervical hospital, which was hit by a car on the highway on Monday. The Senior traveled through a bustling road in places where it was forbidden by signs, in the dark and without reflective vests.

The accident happened on Monday, at about half past seven. Toyota’s twenty-six-year-old driver drove in Prague, and near the department store, he collided with a pedestrian.

“One hundred and the eighty-year-old woman suffered very severe injuries. First aid was given to her by the South Bohemian Medical Emergency Rescue Service crew. Subsequently, the rescue workers transported it to the hospital, “police spokesman Milan said.

This morning, a report from the hospital came out saying that the senior had succumbed to the injuries. “The police have started criminal proceedings for suspicion of committing a crime of negligence,” Milan said.

The woman went to places where traffic signs were forbidden. At the same time, the darkness and the senior did not have reflective clothing or reflective materials.

“We remind all pedestrians and cyclists to remember these elements,” Milan pointed out.

On-site police officers took a breath test with a negative result while listening to witnesses.

According to Milan, the police can hardly exclude whether a woman would commit suicide in this way.

Instead, pedestrians choose quite often despite the ban. About two months ago, another woman died when she crossed over. This year, 67 people died on South Bohemian roads.

3 urgent challenges to overcome the crisis of yellow vests

The yellow vests confirmed the democratic possibilities of the digital. And the fact that the lives of precarious citizens cannot be adjustment variables.

To think about the mobilization of yellow vests is first to recognize the complexity. Behind the apparent unity of a symbol, the fluorescent chasuble, the movement is actually plural, contradictory, diverse, touching, chaotic, disturbing. It would be fair to see not a lake whose surface is frozen but rather a lively and moving river, as Arthur Rimbaud opposed “the black and cold wolf” with “surf and currents”. The place is the unacceptable violence we saw last Saturday, in Paris among others. But these drifts should not hide the fact that yellow vests who wear reflective vests with reflective tapes know how to assemble in a responsible way. Their demands are sometimes confusing but they also carry a glaring demand for social justice and a more participative democracy: denunciation of class contempt, improvement of purchasing power, the crisis of consent to tax.

This plasticity and spontaneity have a corollary: fragility. The extremes try to infiltrate it. They all play, with minor variations, small identical music. “The elites have betrayed”. “The elites are deaf”. “The elites are disconnected”. The ecological emergency is evacuated in a silent cynicism. This dangerous speech, everyone can measure the effectiveness of our fellow citizens in precarious situations, destabilized by decades of crises and a pessimism forged by inequality and lack of prospects. There is an echo to these attempts at recovery: the misunderstanding and disinformation between which the power seems to oscillate. One day qualified by a minister of “guys who smoke cigarettes and ride diesel”, another time reduced to far-right thugs in a hurry to fight, the majority of yellow vests see their sincerity denied and their claims discredited. This trait is accentuated by a media treatment that is now primarily the first place to excesses and slippages.

In the course of a lifetime, it is increasingly difficult for workers or employees to access the status of a manager, for example, an inequality that is also reproduced between generations.

The recognition of this plasticity-fragility is a base around which can engage a suture work. It is to be conducted in three directions.