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Reflective elements will be mandatory, wear them on your feet

Pedestrians will have to wear reflective elements in the dark or fog on roads outside the village. The sanction in the law, which will now be assessed by deputies, is proposed from 1 500 to 2 500 crowns. Experts advise having glowing surfaces on your feet.

 

With reflective material elements that can reflect the incident light from the vehicle’s lamps, the pedestrian is visible to the driver up to 200 meters. Conversely, if the clothing is black or blue, it is only 18 meters. However, the reflective elements do not work much in fog, rain or snow.

 

In some countries, the mandatory use of reflective vests for pedestrians has reduced the number of deaths. Reflective elements can reduce pedestrian exposure to a fatal accident up to ten times in poor visibility. In addition to a vest, a suitable solution is a backpack or jacket with reflective elements.

 

“We found it better to move the light area,” says Robert Sťastný from Skoda Auto. “Reflective tape elements are better to have on the limbs we move than on the body or backpack,” he adds.

 

The amendment was approved by the government

In poor visibility, significant reflective elements will be mandatory outside the municipalities. The Ministry of Transport originally wanted the obligation to apply also within the municipalities, but this obligation was dropped from the proposed amendment at the Government Legislative Council.

 

“We should explain to pedestrians that this is for their safety, but our legislators have convinced me that we need a sanction,” said Transport Minister Dan Tok. After approval by the government, the amendment goes to parliament – read more here.

 

Pedestrians are the most vulnerable in November

“Every pedestrian should know that in dark clothes, he is almost invisible in the dark on the road. A driver who does not see the pedestrians in time cannot respond quickly and avoids pedestrians safely,” explains Katarína Ardová from Goodyear.

 

The most common clashes of cars with pedestrians occur in autumn and winter due to reduced visibility. According to statistics, November is the riskiest month for pedestrians.

 

Even if drivers drive only one-fifth of the total mileage at night, nearly 50 percent of all major road accidents happen at night or in the dark.

You will not miss the children at the crossing

Valasské Mezirici commemorated the day of victims of traffic accidents on Monday, November 18, with the preventive action of BESIP entitled To Be Seen. Police officers and constables handed out reflective tapes and other elements.

 

This time the traditional event fell on Monday. At seven o’clock in the morning stood at the crossings on the streets, Masarykova and also in nearby Kelč municipal police officers and police officers from the district department of Valasské Mezirici. “They distributed less than two thousand reflective tapes and other elements to school children. We wanted to remind the schoolchildren that being seen is particularly important for their safety, especially in autumn and winter,” said Soňa Valchářová, Head of the Traffic Administration Agenda of the Town Hall, described the course of the preventive action.

 

“Along with the current mapping of accident sites (more in an earlier press release here), the Being Seen event is a further step towards reducing the accident rate in our city. Children are among the most endangered traffic participants and it is very good that the BESIP Commission, together with police officers and police officers, focuses on their safety,” added Deputy Mayor.

Do not buy reflective vests at the market, experts warn. Some are not visible in the dark

Some reflective vests that are commonly sold here are not visible in the dark. Researchers from the Brno University of Technology found out. For example, vests bought at the market. They have a label on attests, but they are non-functional. Pedestrians outside the village have been obliged to wear reflective elements in the dark for more than a year.

 

Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT test reflective vests with reflective tape in the field. They use a special camera device to create a so-called brightness map. It shows how much the character is contrasting with the surroundings at night. “What you can see here is a luminance analyzer, which is built on a digital SLR camera, which is specially adapted for this case, and then we analyze the photograph using the software,” explains Jan Škoda, head of the lighting technology laboratory.

 

Two helmets went into the darkness, 80 meters from the car. It must be seen at such a distance that the driver can react to the pedestrian at a speed of 90 km. The technician with the device in the car-focused photographed and analyzed the device. “From the brightness map, it can be seen that there is only one vest visible, the other is not visible,” Jan Skoda described the measurement result.

 

Buying a cheap vest is gambling with life

“A few crowns can mean the difference between life and death. The colleague is wearing a vest from the market hall and he was not able to see it on the record,” said Michal Belák, an expert in Traffic Accident Analysis at the Institute of Forensic Engineering. A quality vest costs about two hundred crowns and drivers can buy it, for example, at a gas station or a car shop. These, according to researchers, can be trusted. Reflective elements can be seen on vests at night at a distance of 300 meters. For the highest quality even a kilometer away.

 

Even a certificate with a certificate will not guarantee the quality of the vest

The vest costs about fifty crowns. Most of them have the necessary attestations on the label. That he will be seen in the dark, but still not guaranteed.

 

It is just that the vest has an attestation when checking the Czech Trade Inspection. If it lights up in traffic, it doesn’t know anymore. Pedestrians outside the village have been obliged to wear reflective material elements in the dark for more than a year. The fact that she could not be seen cost the life of a pedestrian, for example, in the accident last year in the Břeclav region. She walked in darkness only in dark clothes. Overall statistics, if people wear reflective elements, but the police do not register.

 

No risk of wearing reflective elements!

Revolution on the road! Today, at midnight, a new duty began to apply to pedestrians, who now have to wear reflective material elements at night and in poor visibility to be well visible, otherwise, they face a fine of up to two and a half thousand crowns. But as we found out tonight, pedestrians hardly know about it, so they don’t.

 

People do not know about the new regulation at all, or simply because they are to have reflective elements on them. People returning home along the road at night are not visible at all. From today on, police officers can impose a fine of up to two thousand fines on unenlightened pedestrians;

 

For example, some pubs are already thinking of getting reflective tapes or reflective vests for their regulars and lending them for their night return home.

 

Police throughout the country in the coming days and weeks plan special night events focused on pedestrian controls. In one breath, however, they promise to be a little more benevolent about fines for offenses.

 

For example, the measure has already been introduced in Slovakia, and in five years of operation, the number of killed pedestrians has decreased by almost half. Over the past three years, more than five hundred pedestrians have died in the Czech Republic, of which more than three hundred at night.

 

Reflective tape can save a life. A person on the road is almost invisible to the driver without reduced visibility. Also, if the pedestrian is wearing dark clothing, the driver’s reaction time is halved.

 

The number of accidents in which pedestrians die on the roads is alarming every year. On the last Thursday in the evening under the wheels of the car died a man, which the driver probably overlooked. The reflective tape might have saved his life.

 

For example, the newly-baked mother Kateřina from České Budějovice leaves nothing to chance: “Not only does our stroller itself have some reflective elements, reflex points, but I have added tapes to the stroller because I want us to be well seen when it’s dark or dark.”

 

But even wearing a tape has its principles. It should be located on the side facing the center of the road so that the driver who is driving against can see exactly where the pedestrian is and how far it reaches.

 

Reflective jacket for cars: obligation and penalties

Reflective life-saving jackets are mandatory to wear when you get out of the car parked outside the built-up areas and in poor visibility conditions.

 

The reflective vest also called a life-saving vest, required by law since 2004. The Decree of 30 December 2003 of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport establishes that those who get out of the car of a stationary vehicle in conditions of poor visibility (low illumination, fog, snow or heavy rains) is required to wear the jacket.

 

It is advisable to keep the jacket in the vehicle if possible not in the trunk so that it is within reach for wearing it before getting out of the car.

 

Reflective jacket, which one to choose?

The Highway Code provides in article 162 the use of the reflective jacket or alternatively high visibility retro-reflective braces.

 

What should the reflective jacket be like?

The 2003 decree established that jackets and braces must comply with the CE mark and UNI EN 471.

No matter the color, which can be yellow, orange or red, as long as it is fluorescent and has strips that reflect light.

 

The obligation of the reflective vest

 

Always art. 162 paragraph 1 of the Highway Code imposes the obligation of the reflective vest on drivers of all vehicles except cycles, two-wheeled mopeds, and motorcycles. Normally, quadricycles are not excluded, so those driving for example quads and mini-cars must have a jacket.

 

This also applies to foreigners, even if the decree focuses on vehicles registered in Italy, leaving drivers of foreign vehicles the possibility of having a non-homologated jacket.

 

In paragraph 4, the art. 162 of the Highway Code indicates that the jacket or shoulder straps must always be used by drivers outside built-up areas, stationary on the roadway, on emergency lanes and lay-bys, at night and during the day in cases of poor visibility, when they go down from the car, and in all signaling operations, how to position the triangle.

 

Once out of the car, the vest is also mandatory for other passengers besides the driver.

 

Lifesaving jackets: sanctions

It is advisable to keep the reflective vest in the door to wear it even before getting out of the car.

 

Those who break the rule can run into administrative fines ranging from 41.00 to 169.00, which for the driver goes to reduce even 2 points from the license.

 

In any case, it is not mandatory to have the vest with reflective tape in the car and show it during the checks, while it is for the triangle.

Safety check for fishing boats in autumn and winter

Masan Happo-gu, Changwon-si, has joint safety checks with related organizations such as Korea Maritime Safety Agency, Changwon Maritime Police Station, and related agencies to prevent the risk of fishing accidents such as the increase of fishing boats in autumn and worsening of maritime damage in winter. Unfolded.

 

On this day, safety inspections were posted on old and fishing vessels, which were vulnerable to fire. The focus was on checking.

 

Also, minor matters, such as trash bins, were corrected at the site, and safety training was conducted at the site, such as wearing life jackets with reflective tapes and banning drinking in preparation for worsening winter weather.

 

Yun Bum-sik, Director of Fisheries and Forestry, said, “With this joint inspection, we will raise awareness about safety accidents and provide guidance and promotion, which is a continuous fishery on maritime safety.”

Police alerted first-graders and other road users

To move children from home to school and from school to home as safely as possible, with the first day of the new school year, the staff of the Police Department of Istria began to act “Respect Our Signs”. The action is aimed at protecting children in traffic and preventing their lives being endangered, especially by the youngest who participate in traffic for the first time independently. Police activities at a press conference in front of the Giuseppina Martinuzzi Elementary School in Pula were presented today by Head of the Road Traffic Safety Department Josip Lukic and Assistant Chief of Prevention at the Pula-Pola Traffic Police Station Dubravko Slibar, while School Principal Susanna Cerlon emphasized the importance of implementing preventive measures action for student safety in traffic.

 

Head Lukić pointed out that during September 2017, during the action, no traffic accident occurred in the school zone at the time of arrival or departure of the students, in which the children participated. In the last year, 48 children aged 1 to 14 years have been killed, which is 6% less than in 2016, when 51 children were injured. The children were most often injured as passengers in vehicles: one child sustained serious injuries and 29 children sustained minor injuries. As a bicycle rider, eight children sustained minor injuries, while pedestrians were slightly injured by ten children. It is certainly important to point out that 63% of children are killed as passengers in their loved ones’ vehicles. “Experience so far indicates that children are one of the most vulnerable categories of road users, whether it is crossing the street, playing on the roadway, whether on the way to school or as passengers in a vehicle. A moment of carelessness often has dire consequences for the youngest,” Lukic said.

 

As in previous years, police officers, in cooperation with the representatives of the competent authorities for road maintenance, inspected all roads and traffic signs in the school zones to renew or replace the worn traffic signs by the beginning of the school year.

 

“At the beginning of the school, twenty-minute lectures and talks will be organized with the principals, pedagogues, and teachers with the students of the first grades of elementary schools. During the interview, police will hand out gifts to the children, and this year they are reflective yellow raincoats with reflective tape,” Assistant Silber said. The main objective of the lecture is to familiarize the youngest traffic participants with the basic rules for safe traffic. Also, the police will be present at the first parent meetings of primary school students, where parents will be advised of desirable traffic behaviors, as their children most often imitate them alone, which is why parents must obey traffic regulations.

 

During September, every day, especially during the start and finish of first-grade students, police officers will carry out enhanced traffic monitoring at driveways and intersections near schools to make it easier for children to get and leave school. In addition to preventive activities, the police will also act in a repressive manner in primary school zones, and will primarily monitor the speed, improper parking and compliance of pedestrian obligations on pedestrians at marked pedestrian crossings.

 

WAY TO SCHOOL

Practice your way to school with strict adherence to traffic regulations and safety rules. You are a role model to your child and it will imitate you in everything, and so in traffic behavior. Explain in a child-friendly manner the purpose of the pedestrian crossing, the change of traffic lights and their meaning for changing the movement of vehicles, as well as the role of a traffic policeman. Do not rush your child on the way to school, because getting to school faster is not the safest.

 

CHILDREN’S CLOTHING AND SCHOOL EQUIPMENT

If you are able or have not yet equipped your child for school, pay attention to the colors when purchasing children’s clothing. Lighter-colored clothing is easier to spot in traffic, especially for reduced visibility. It is also useful that the school bag has reflective straps or glasses (cat eyes) that are of great importance at night. In rainy weather, it is recommended to wear a raincoat as the umbrella reduces the child’s visibility.

 

CHILDREN AND BIKE RIDING

Before the age of nine, do not just put your child on a bicycle on a public traffic surface. A child of this age is capable of cycling only under controlled traffic conditions, therefore, in playgrounds, parks, areas with reduced traffic flow. Follow a child on a bicycle from nine to 14 years of age and do not release it to a public traffic area – it is not yet a “mature” cyclist and his or her fast reactions may be tragic for him or herself, but also other road users. A child under 16 must wear a safety helmet when riding on the road!

 

CHILDREN IN THE CAR

The Road Traffic Safety Act stipulates that children less than 150 cm in vehicles must be transported in a separate seat/stand, which is secured to the vehicle with a seat belt or special buckles. Exceptions are children less than 150 cm tall and at least 135 cm high, which need not be placed in a safety seat/pedestal, but may only be transported in the rear seats and must be fastened with a seat belt. The prescribed fine in case of non-compliance with this provision is HRK 500.

 

Please note that properly used child seats reduce the risk of a collision by up to 70% and the risk of serious injury by up to 60%. Therefore, use child seats even if the ride takes only a few minutes. Also, you must use the rear door lock to prevent the child from opening the door while driving.

 

We hope that the preventive action “Respect Our Signs” carried out by the Istrian Police during September will result in more responsible, tolerant and attentive behavior of drivers in traffic, especially in the areas where schools are located, and ensure a safe and safe arrival and departure to school for our students and a more enjoyable start to the school year. We urge all road users to obey the traffic regulations, and in particular, we urge drivers to exercise caution, that is, these days they pay attention to children in school zones and on their way from home to school so that we can all contribute together to safer participation of children in traffic.

Cyclists’ high-visibility jackets

High visibility clothing may increase the chances cyclists have an accident rather than keeping them safer, research has suggested.

 

A study of 76 accidents by academics found “no evidence” that those who wore polarized clothing “were at reduced risk”.

 

Jesse Norman, the transport minister, last week said a government consultation in the new year would look at whether cyclists should be forced to wear helmets and high-visibility vests.

 

But research from the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Nottingham University found “increased odds of a collision crash” among cyclists in reflective clothing, the Sunday Times reported.

 

The study suggested riders wearing the safety clothing with reflective tape “may have adopted more exposed road positions, in the belief that they were relatively conspicuous”.

The results “should be treated with caution” however, as it was based only on a small group of volunteers, researchers said.

 

Other research has reached the opposite conclusion.

 

A larger study in Denmark of nearly 7,000 cyclists found they had 47 percent fewer accidents causing injuries if a bright yellow jacket.

 

Cycling campaigners have also warned against making helmets compulsory, insisting that accident statistics do not back up the case.

 

They argue that the safety equipment can give both cyclists and drivers a false sense of security, while the issue detracts from bigger threats like careless drivers and dangerously pot-holed roads.

 

More than 100 cyclists were killed on British roads last year, the latest figures show.

 

A further 3,397 were seriously injured, a five percent increase in 12 months.

 

Hi-Vis Workwear ANSI Class 3 High Visibility Safety Jacket

The first option for the best high visibility rain gear that is worthwhile to invest in is the ANSI Class 3 WJ9012-2XL High Visibility Bomber Safety Jacket from New York Hi-Viz Workwear. It is a fantastic choice if you truly want to own a jacket designed to bolster your visibility and guarantee your safety.

 

It falls under the Class 3 type of visibility jackets and adheres to the rules and regulations set by ANSI when it comes to this protective equipment. That said, I am certain that it will not let down its users in terms of giving them protection. I am incredibly amazed at the 100 percent waterproof nature of the jacket, too.

 

Apart from its visible lime color, it also features reflective tape around two inches wide at the arms, back, and front portions. This further increases your level of visibility. Another amazing reason to love this waterproof reflective work jacket is its snap-off adjustable hood, which is made to be convenient to put on and adjust.

 

I am also very delighted with the presence of the molded adjustable cuffs in this hi-vis winter jacket with reflective material. Such cuffs feature easy-to-use hook and loop closures. I am also sure that you will be pleased to know that this jacket comes equipped with a few pockets. This will help you bring some important items with you without any hassle.

 

It comes with a clear ID pocket as well as a pocket intended for mobile devices, like a phablet. Furthermore, this highly protective jacket boasts of its high waterproof and breathability rating, making it great to incorporate into your safety gear collection.

 

Bus Driver for First Student Gets Reflective Belts for her Students

A school bus driver for First Student, based in Helena, Montana, recently felt the need to make school bus stops safer on her route. She decided to act after at least 7 kids were killed at bus stops nationwide last fall, or while loading/ Unloading their school buses.

 

Katee Horner has only been driving for a few months and quickly fell in love with the job and the children.

 

“I didn’t know if it was something I wanted to do when I first started, but I fell in love with it and all the kids on my school bus,” Horner said.

 

As Horner was thinking of ways to make the bus stop safer for the children she transports, she was reminded of the days she wore a reflective belt for various training exercises in the United States Army. In the army, the belts were referred to PT belts, physical training belts, and they were worn when running or conducting other activities so that cars were able to see them.

 

“Montana is very dark in the winter. If I am wearing a reflective vest in my school bus yard while I am getting ready to go out on my bus run, those kids aren’t even five minutes away from me waiting to be picked up, also in the dark,” Horner said.

 

First Student Location Manager Bevann Hamill added that some students are picked up in rural areas, where there are no sidewalks or lights. Especially in the winter there, it can get very dark. Horner said that half the time kids are standing on a dirt road.

 

Horner made it a goal to get as many kids as she can on her route a reflective belt. She also spread the word around to parents, asking them to help out where they can.

“It went from the kids on the busiest roads first, because they are the most at danger, and then I just went all around my entire bus route,” Horner said. “I am excited that so many parents like the idea. I also Had other local businesses find out about it and decide it was a very good idea too. They also wanted to help me get all my kid’s reflective belts.”

 

Hamill said when Horner presented the idea to her, she wanted to expand it to other routes and students. The transportation manager for Helena Public Schools and Hamill split the cost and bought belts in bulk.

 

“Even if in early summer here, it is bright in the day. But the colors on your clothes blend into all the new colors—the greens and yellows, they are blending in,” Horner said. “But the reflective belt with reflective tape is still making And I have about 75 percent of my kids still wearing them. I also have a few kids that are close enough to walk home, and they wear them when they walk home from school too.”

 

Hamill added that Horner has even seen kids on their bikes riding around and wearing the belts. “Especially the younger kids, they like them,” Hamill said. “She has gotten positive feedback from the kids and the families.”

 

Horner won second place for her idea in the nationwide safety category for First Student’s “Be First Awards.” Horner said she was honored to just be nominated, and even being chosen as a finalist was “super exciting.”

 

Horner was nominated by her peers and was selected as a finalist. Over 600 nominations were made in 7 different categories.

 

“Isay, second place is good enough for me, as long as the word gets around that the safety of our kids is number 1,” Horner said. “And that we need to get our kids more visible to other people, especially in the rural areas. To save a life, you can’t put a price on it. Yeah, the reflective belts, depending on what kind you get, might be anywhere from $4 to $10, but it’s nothing compared to a child’s life.”