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Cycling on public roads? Here’re some tips for you

The road system in our country does not only regulate the circulation of motorized vehicles on public roads, but also that of bicycles or vehicles with animal traction. That is why in this article we will present the rules that the cyclists must respect for traveling on the roads in Romania this year.

A first condition to be met by those who want to cycle on public roads is a minimum age limit. In particular, according to the Road Code, the driver of a bicycle must be at least 14 years old.

Then another obligation for those who travel by bicycle is to equip them with lighting systems or, as they are known, a headlamp and a stop. Bicyclists cannot use bicycles that have no illumination and reflective-fluorescent devices at night.

In order to be used on public roads, a bicycle needs an efficient braking system, a functional steering system, equipped with audible warning systems (car horns are forbidden) with at least one reflective device red on the back (some reflective materials) and orange cat eyes on the spokes of the wheels.

According to the Road Code, cyclists can circulate on all public roads in Romania, except for motorways. They can only run on the bicycle track if there are such tracks in that area or on the right side of the road or the first lane, but only in the direction of travel. Bicyclists can also travel on the sidewalks, but only if they are equipped with bicycle tracks or public parks and gardens, provided they do not disturb the pedestrians on the alleys.

Additionally, when riding on public roads, cyclists are required to have the ID card on them. The authorities also recommend that bicyclists wear safety clothing, such as approved helmets.

Instead, cyclists cannot travel in winter conditions, i.e. when roads are covered with ice, or snow, or across a pedestrian crossing road while on a bicycle. Therefore, crossing the pedestrian crossing of cyclists can only be done if the bicyclist goes by the bicycle.

Cyclists also have a number of restrictions or prohibitions, namely:

Not to learn or practice cycling on intensive roads;

Not to go with both hands raised on the handlebars or with both feet raised on the pedals;

Not to run more bicycles in parallel along the way;

Not cycling if they have consumed alcohol, narcotic drugs, or drugs with similar effects;

Do not cling or be towed by a running vehicle;

Not to carry other people on bicycles (except for children under seven years of age);

Not to carry or to haul any object which, because of its size, jeopardizes or endangers the driving of the bicycle or the movement of the other road users;

Not to run overnight without wearing fluorescent or reflective vests;

Not to run on a road, if there is a parallel trail or a bay on which you can ride a bicycle.

Bicyclists who do not comply with the rules that apply to them and are present in the road traffic laws in our country risk the fines provided in the third class of sanctions, that is, they may receive between six and eight points. Given that in 2018 the fine has the value of 145 leis, the fines that cyclists may receive for violation of the rules are between 870 and 1,160 lei.

Immaculate School. It rolls before the holiday

Every year, the pupils of the CM2 classes of the primary school of the Immaculate end their year of introduction to road safety by a beautiful bike ride.

“We did upstream several actions,” says the Chief Warrant Officer Jacques, commander of the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Brigade Departmental Gendarmerie.

“Citizenship of law, internet license – they all stalled – good safety behaviors in the bus and finally an awareness of the practice of cycling, with a theoretical part in class, and a practical part in the playground to know if they were able to go on the road. This is the last sequence, the great epic.

On the program, by a convoy of 6, controlled distance, helmet and mandatory yellow reflective vest, and several accompanying adults, gendarmes, teachers and parents. With a good pace, students arrived on site faster than other years. They did a relay race to wait for the picnic hour where the 7 students who for the first time since the operation had not passed the practical test, had to work at the school.

After the meal, the BPDJ launched the challenge of the orienteering race and the teams had the opportunity to search at their own pace for letters arranged in the wooded area and to reconstruct a phrase on the theme of safety: “the cyclist has a fragile head. The return continued in a good mood.

In order to cope safely, the police give important tips.

The new school year is imminent. For the youngest among the students begin a exciting new period of life and many great challenges. One of them is the way to school, and in order to cope safely, the police give important tips.

Explore school way together:

Even before the first day of school, parents and their child should explore the future school route to explain the correct behavior in traffic and in hazardous areas. It is important that always the safest way is used, even if this is perhaps not the shortest. When changing the street side children should use crossing aid, such as traffic lights or pedestrian crossings. Even when coping with the school route, “practice makes perfect” – the more often the path is walked together, the better the child gets used to the right traffic behavior.

Conversely, children also adopt false and dangerous behaviors, so adults should always lead by example. Likewise, the wrong behavior of other road users serves to explain to the child how to do it right. Eye-catching, colorful, reflective clothing helps children to be seen better and faster by other road users. Reflecting tapes and applications on clothing and satchels additionally enhance the effect.

School bus:

Even if the child goes to school by bus, parents should pay attention to the proper behavior and warn them of danger: never cross the street in front of or behind the holding bus, but wait until the bus continues and clears the view is. When disembarking on passing cyclists and passing pedestrians pay attention and not jostle when boarding and keep enough distance. Although the waiting time on the bus can sometimes be long, time should not be spent playing games.

Drive with the car:

When traveling by car, it is important to ensure the proper securing of all passengers. Children up to the twelfth year of age and a height of less than 1.50 meters need a suitable child seat – without proper security. Children in the car have a seven times higher risks of being seriously injured or even killed by an accident.

Missing or inadequate security can be punished with up to 60 Euros and a point in Flensburg. If several children are affected, it can be punished with 70 Euros and a point in Flensburg.

The child should only get in and out on the side facing away from the traffic. Every road user should be particularly attentive in the coming weeks around the beginning of school. And it is important to wear a reflective vest when cycling outside at night. Even as a pedestrian or cyclist, children can be a good example. The field of vision of a child is one third smaller than the adult.

Distraction – mobile away on the way to school:

Children and adolescents are now reluctant to use the mobile phone. The accessibility of their children is important for parents, but the cell phone on the way to school has lost nothing in the hand and should stay in the satchel, so that the small road users fully focused on the way to school and the traffic. For adults, it also means: be a role model, keep your fingers away from the phone!

School accidents:

In 2012, there were still 171 school-leaving road accidents, but the number dropped to 124 in 2015. In 2016, the number increased to 133 and in 2017 there were 138 accidents of this kind. 19 people were seriously injured and 115 slightly injured.

Through various actions such as the “pedestrian pass” in day-care centers and schools, the action “little feet on the way to school” or the use of honorary school route guides, the police and various partners are supporting this exciting time in the lives of the smallest road users.

Nearly half of those killed on the roads are pedestrians

A woman and a man were the last passers-by to be run over on the Costa da Morte. it happened on February 6. But so far in 2018, there are seven the outrage accounted for. There were two victims: Roberto and Evaristo.

Victims of abuse, far from being reduced, remain dangerous in time, to such an extent that they represent almost half of those killed on the roads in the area. In 2016, four of the nine victims were registered. And so far this year, two out of five. In Traffic of the Civil Guard, they have a well-defined profile of the deceased and wounded: a person of about 70-80 years, who circulated without reflective vests and did it outside the enabled steps. In some cases, they traveled in the middle of the night on the roads that are forbidden for passers-by, such as the highway and on the Costa da Morte highway. The latter registered its first and only decreased since its implementation at the end of July 2016. It happened on October 11, 2017, when José 76 years old and resident of Valona lost his life. He walked through the middle of the two lanes, and without any reflective clothing.

Before this rebound of the accident rate, with pedestrians involved, the Provincial Traffic Headquarters in collaboration with the Subsector of Traffic of the Civil Guard, yesterday began a prevention campaign in the DP-1914. The objective is to raise awareness among residents of the problems and the risk of violating the instructions on road safety. This campaign included the delivery of reflective vests, among neighbors of the area.

Lieutenant of Traffic of the Civil Guard and responsibility of the detachment of In Corunna, Jose Manuel Lopez participated yesterday in the campaign of sensitization initiated in Cabrillo. “The data are worrisome both at the provincial level and the Costa da Morte. At the provincial level we have 10 pedestrians who died in 2016; six in 2017 and three so far this year. These are very worrying data because, in most cases, they were abuses in which the victims were not wearing something as simple as a reflective vest .

According to the head of the detachment, these ominous statistics are even worse in a mural like the Costa da Morte: “Population aging and dispersion act as an aggravating factor. People need to run their errands and have to go on general roads, with a great movement of traffic. These pedestrians, either walk or vehicles that do not require a driver’s license, with the risk that entails .

This campaign aims to be an awareness of the need to follow the indications on road safety. “It’s no use having the reflective vest with reflective materials at home. You have to use it whenever you go out. It is the only way to be visible to drivers because the risk of being run over is very high. If you add to that a poor public lighting, adverse weather conditions and the use of dark clothes, the possibility of danger increases exponentially. “

The policemen handed out reflective elements

You can encourage the use of reflective materials in many ways. This time, policemen from the Rude highway encouraged to improve their safety during the “Safe Intersections” operation.

Uniforms the pedestrians to take care of their safety during the pre-Christmas rally. Police officers from the RW road route appeared on pre-Christmas Thursday in the area of the main intersections of our city. Their aim was to increase the safety of pedestrians and drivers, especially at intersections. Pedestrians promoted the use of marked pedestrian crossings and wearing reflective vests that improve visibility. Uniforms reminded everyone that wearing retro-reflective elements is not only an obligation, but also an indication of common sense on the road. These were successive actions of the policemen from the roadside, to make the road users aware of the dangers they would face, to remind the existing regulations and to improve the safety on our roads.

Remember that a pedestrian who is moving on a dark road without reflections is practically invisible. The driver is able to notice such a person only from a distance of 20-30 meters. However, if it has reflective tapes, the driver can already see it from over 150 m. You want to come home safely – WE WORK REFLECTIONS!

Witness of the death at Pesky brood

The driver on Tuesday night struck a married couple who were not wear reflective vests near Pesky brood. The man was dead, the woman fought for life, but died shortly after the accident. The witness described the entire tragic event.

“A lifetime experience, seeing how someone is knocking a car,” she confided to a witness through Facebook and shared a photo she had taken from her own car window. “Framer in place of the dead, his lady’s open cranial bone fracture, to the arrival of the ambulance in consciousness, but the rescuers had to resuscitate after a while,” she described the horror she witnessed.

“Human life is so fragile, it’s enough if people were seen on the road, no illumination, no reflective materials, nothing,” the woman added. According to local people, however, the crossing of the road is commonplace at the site of the tragedy.

“Very often in this place people in dark clothes, who are unfortunately many times seen in the last moment, are very sad, everyone should think about their health and really have reflective clothing,” one of the many discusses. Read more here

“The driver who struck them have a psychological trauma in life, collapsed at the scene of an accident, and I was in shock,” said the witness. “Two members of the post-traumatic care team were called to the accident, the firefighters provided psychic assistance to the car driver, illuminated the scene of the incident, and cooperated with the Czech Police in the investigation and subsequent obstruction of the road,” Yaroslavl Gabriel said.

According to the witness, a woman of sixty-eight years old did not have the chance to prevent the tragedy: “The driver could not have been able to see them.” The police have not yet spoken about the cause of the accident, but according to the spokesperson, investigators are intensively working on the case.

People started cleaning with the help of volunteer firefighters

On Saturday, around 14:00, people at various ages began to gather at the fire department, all of them were wearing the same reflective clothing. First of all, this year, volunteer firefighters, in cooperation with the municipality, joined the event Let Us Clean the World, Let’s Clean Up The Czech Republic.

The idea came from the coach of young firemen Ditka Matos. “We remembered the last minute, so there was no more reflective material from the organizer, but the kids were enthusiastic about this idea, and instead of regular training they enjoyed the outdoors so we did not hesitate and started preparations,” she explained.

First we asked for a blessing village, then we created a poster where we specified the time and place of the meeting. We called our clean up to clean up Kosice and its surroundings. “We had a little worry that we do not have much to do, because this afternoon was a football match on the local court, but the opposite was true,” Ditka Matos said with a smile.

After careful recalculation, 43 volunteers were involved not only from the fire department, but as a separate unit, members of the hunting association worked, as well as municipal representatives, parents with children and other citizens. Not one bag of 50 has gone to the crush – so, on average, one full one weighed about 20 kilograms, we managed to help out of 1000 kilograms of rubbish. Tonnage of waste is no longer a number.

The commanders of the five teams at the start were given maps with their tracks and their descriptions, each of whom drew plastic bags and a string that did not have a working glove or reflective vest. The first route was probably more difficult to clean. It was in the direction of plan and lunacy and the section around the pond soberly. Jerome Ferny, Mayor of Jerome Ferny and his team of “grown-ups” got this on his hips. He reminded me of the end of the joke: “Thank you very much, we chose the worst of us, we did.” His cleaning team consisted of his wife Yaroslavl and daughter Lucie, the mayor of SDH Kosice Vaclav Kroner and her husband Herrick appreciated the excellent organization and their whole team: “The cooperation was great, the participants were nice and they worked like dragons. The enemy was just a wind. “She added one observation:” On a Saturday bike ride, we recorded a mess on the Doubt – round route, if not to join the next time and the cottage. ”

The waste was left on the road in black bags and, as reported in the radio, our pickers picked it up. At about 16 o’clock, a full Avid village was leaving the collection yard. Panel and his hunting team filled the litter of their small tractor. Among the biggest attractions, teams included boats, monitor, enamel bucket, golf ball, boots, car seat or car fender. The reward for all was a great fire on the fire for children, adult lemonade with beer. Thanks to all who helped both the organization and those involved in the cleaning, it was a really good afternoon and we are looking forward to next year.

Bikers welcomed Saturday’s security event

The brisk riding of bikers has become excellent. Bikers have been praising the preventive activity aimed at safety and the importance of wearing safety clothing.

More than a hundred bikers got to the airport near Bernice on Saturday, 19 May morning. There they received reflective vest, and then accompanied by a police force for about a hundred kilometers long ride. There was a nationwide preventive activity aimed at the safety of bikers. The project bears the name Let’s start together or Kalama down.

The program then continued on the Jihlava’s polygon, where the goal was to drive together. “Within the training center area, demonstrations of safe driving and active safety training were conducted for individuals,” said police spokeswoman Dana. Bikers arrived and did not take part in the rides. Among other things, the former motorcycle racer and nine-time Rally Dakar with his family.

He also brought a small Honda Money Motorcycle with which he set a world record of 160 kilometers per hour nine years ago. This time his son, Kistna’s eight-year-old son, was beating along the Jihlava polygon. Wife of Vera then introduced a special electric tricycle for immobile people that Kaftans himself developed and manufactured.

As part of security awareness, a motorcycle vest was also presented, which has reflective tapes and in the event of a fall would blow the airbag. The vest can be used repeatedly thanks to remove CO2 bottles. “The participants in the Jihlava preventive project were highly appreciated and most of them said they would like to be back in a year because such activities really have meaning and purpose,” said Kirstin.

Attention, drivers!

Winter has got its rights, and drivers are forced to wear winter tires. So far no fines have been issued, but police say they will be penalizing drivers.

Also, no driver should go into traffic if his car is not properly equipped. There are objects that are legally required to be held in the trunk. Otherwise, drivers may face ugly fines and penalty points.

The medical kit, the fire extinguisher, the reflective vest and the two reflective triangles required for signaling in the event of a breakdown or accident should not be absent from any luggage compartment, and preferably within the shelf life.

All these equipment is mandatory, and their lack can lead to damaging fines.

The penalty provided by the Road Code for those who do not have appropriately equipped machines is 4 or 5 points, equivalent to a fine ranging from 580 to 725.

“Thus, for the period January 1 – December 31, 2018, the fine is paid at the amount of 145, as it is today, without increasing according to the gross minimum salary in the guaranteed economy”, writes in a statement of the Executive.

In other words, nothing changes in the amount of fines this year compared to last year. The fine was still 145. It should be noted, however, that the capping is only set for 2018. This means that if no new capping comes in, by January 2019 it will increase to 190.

With a fine of 290 or 435, drivers who speak on the phone while driving without a “hands-free” device, as well as those who do not signal when changing the direction of travel, will still be sanctioned and passengers who do not wear seat belts. Also, pedestrians who violate traffic rules (without wearing safety clothing)may be filed with the same amount.

Fines of 580 or 725 apply to drivers who do not give priority to pedestrian crossings, switch to the red traffic light or overpass the traffic lights off the traffic lights / crossing the railroad level to overcome the legal speed of 21-30 km/h for the transport of minors without adequate safety systems (safety belts or chairs for children), but also for situations such as non-observance of the signs and markings, and lack of medical kits, reflective triangles, hi vis vests and fire extinguishers .

A slightly higher penalty, that is, from 870 to 1,160, applies for exceeding the legal speed by 31-40 km / h, for not respecting the rules on passing priority, overtaking or changing to the red traffic light if there is a accident with material damage. Other examples of facts that could be fined with amounts in this range are: driving with an expired car license or running a car with a lightning or audible warning system.

The biggest fines for individuals are those in the fourth class of sanctions, where the fines that can be applied are between 1,305 and 2,900 and apply to: drivers that exceed.

We have to wear reflective vests after dark

Yesterday we informed about the mysterious figures standing by the roads. From a distance, they look like real people, but they are really only wire-shaped silhouettes that have been put on safety clothing. Today we were able to solve the mystery of metal ‘ pedestrians ‘.

We found a few places, in which pairs of wire silhouettes were placed, and our Readers informed about the next ones.

Today we already know that typical pedestrians were sent to the root roadside by the Active for Development Association, and our assumptions about the “mission” of metal people were hit.

Unfortunately, there have been many accidents involving pedestrians and, in order to meet the situation, we decided to do something – says the president of the Association, Andrej. – The mere distribution of reflective vests does not bring much effect. You must also try to reach people’s consciousness. During the brainstorming, during the Association meeting, an idea was created to visualize the visibility of pedestrians in a reflective vest and without.

As we wrote yesterday, wire silhouettes appear on the roadside in pairs. In any case, one of the characters is wearing a reflective vest and the other is wearing a dark blouse or T-shirt. As long as both men are quite visible during the day, the situation changes dramatically at night. From a distance, we can see the figure in a reflective vest, while the second one can be noticed only from a close distance.

President of the Association reveals that around twelve pairs of metal silhouettes have already been prepared. Some of them are on the road. Others will just be there. It may also happen that where pedestrians will change their places. The members of the association made the wire silhouettes themselves.

In our association, we have people who professionally do different things. Some work as welders, locksmiths, they are experts.

We would like the human habit of wearing vests when leaving the house after dark. When I go outside in the winter – I take my hat. Even when I do not have it at hand, I’m looking for it. It’s good for it to be the same with the vest. In some Western countries, a man who comes out without a glare is called a suicide.

The campaign enjoys the support of local entrepreneurs and is not limited only to roadside figures. We managed to obtain funds for which the association will purchase reflective vests. However, according to Andrej, mass distribution of them may not bring results. That’s why every member of the organization will carry a dozen or so vests in his car. Whenever he sees a pedestrian without any reflective materials on him after dark, he will give him a vest and encourage him to put it on.