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Motorcyclists are required to wear reflective vest

The measure was announced at the beginning of the year, after the publication of bad figures of road mortality. It is now official: drivers of two or three motorized wheels will have obligation from 1 January 2016 to have on board a yellow vest, such as motorists, according to a decree published Sunday in the Official Journal.

Officially called “high visibility vest“, “retro reflective vest” or “fluorescent vest” by some, this accessory must be within easy reach of drivers “on them or in a storage of their vehicle (net, trunk …) “And they will have to” wear it when they come down from their vehicle following an emergency stop, in order to improve their visibility “, the decree specifies.

Fine from 11 to 135 Euros

Compulsory since 1 July 2008 for motorists – such as the red triangle – the fluorescent yellow vest, in conformity with the regulations in force (CE marking), must be lined by the driver before leaving his vehicle in the event of immobilization on The causeway or its surroundings as a result of an emergency stop.

Offenders will incur a fine of € 11 in the absence of a vest on board, € 135 if they do not wear it as a result of an emergency stop.

The measure, several times announced, had been the object of a shield of the French Federation of angry motorcyclists (FFMC). This encourages incentives to travel with appropriate equipment such as reflective vest (gloves, jacket with backbone, boots …).

Wear safety vest to avoid road accidents on Easter

To avoid accidents when traveling by car during these Easter holidays, wear safety vest and follow the following recommendations of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation.

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– Check the tire pressure, the state of the battery and fluid levels of the car.

– Rest enough before driving.

– All occupants must use seat belts.

– Maintain in good condition the emergency kit in case of failure, such as reflective vest, warning triangle, jack, tools and spare fuses.

– Respect traffic signals and speed limits.

– Keep safe distance with other vehicles.

– Exceeds only the left and only in the sections where it is permitted.

– At the slightest sign of fatigue, stop at least 15 minutes or the time it takes to recover.

– Wear a high visibility vest to enhance visibility and keep yourself to be seen easily.

Safety vest make you safer on the way to school

The pupils of the first classes of Gruenberg School got reflective safety vest on Thursday. Policewoman Christine Neumann presented the more than 100 students from five classes their Awe-inspiring.

In keeping with the beginning of autumn were the youngest accept their safety vests. The bright yellow vest with hood is fitted from the front, rear and sides with reflectors.

To illustrate the students how important it is also to carry the vest and not to leave home, caring Kerstin, class teacher of 1e, the policewoman Christine Neumann for the handover of the West. Before handing they sharpened students the importance of safety vests.

“The West are in the dark winter months especially important,” said the cop, “” often, students are seen late in winter with dark jackets of motorists.”Neumann has been involved in youth work of the police and is familiar with such cases. Especially the very young students would often overlooked by motorists, especially when they do is deceive dark clothing.

Then it would be at the Gruenberg School closing. “If possible, invite the children to the West now every morning on the way to school wear,” predicts Kerstin. But even on day trips is to be used the high visibility vest. On their own initiative, the idea to buy safety vests for the first year was implemented.

The teacher took advantage of an offer from the ADAC. “Each year can be ordered Basic Schools ADAC safety vests for the new first-graders,” said the teacher, “we have now used this offer.”

The West got the school even free. This was made possible the existing since 2010 Project “Safety vests for school” of the Automobile Club. Since 2010 the Foundation supports “Gerber Engel” the action. With the high visibility vests to the safety of children in traffic greatly improved. While children are seen with normal clothes only from a distance of about 30 to 40 meters, they illuminate the motorist now already from a distance of about 100 meters towards.

To make safety vests for the students even more attractive, the ADAC has come up with two mascots for the reflective vest. Traffic Detectives Felix and Frieda, who can also be seen on the vest, are that motivate children to wear the vest.

The inspection sticker of safety vest

The “GTÜ automotive testing” headquartered in Jock is a service-oriented company for vehicle tests of all kinds. The two graduate engineers Rolf and Joachim Steer in safety vest are experienced test engineers.

Who had an accident with his car and need an expert opinion by recognized and certified experts, is also spot-on. They advice on all matters related to motor vehicle and take time for the individual needs of their customers – regardless of whether you have minor or major concern.

Important information: As of July, a general safety vest requirement in Germany. Only motorcycles and scooters are exempt from this requirement. The safety vest must the new Euro-standard “EN ISO 20471” meet and have reflective strips.

Let motorists z. B. performs their main investigation o. Ä. In May or June at the “GTÜ automotive testing”, they get paid a high visibility vest. The GTÜ security experts advise not to wait until the mandatory date, but to get up quickly for him and his rider safety vests.

The safety vest is not harassment. If a breakdown or accident the shining piece of fabric increases its own security enormously. Who wears a safety vest, is five times perceived earlier, the security experts GTÜ. Especially when setting up the warning triangle, when changing tires or on the way is no luminous vest a significantly higher risk of being overlooked – especially in the dark.

Who on the highway or country road has broken down, should create the safety reflective vest before leaving the car. The GTÜ advises better stow the West under the driver’s seat, in the bins of the doors or in the glove compartment.

Road safety: Caution on the road in this year end

If a 16% decrease in fatalities is observed, the numbers of accidents and injuries are rising. In addition, the number of motorcyclists without safety vest killed is clearly increasing compared to the same year.

While the main factors of accidents are excessive speed and not adapted to driving conditions, 60% of accidents in light vehicles took place under the influence of alcohol or drugs, weekends and early morning. The number of young people killed (16- 27 years) is 35% against 47% in 2015, from the Beginning of the year.

Strengthening road checks

Reeve ad late awareness campaigns complemented by monitoring roads to fight against road accidents. Parallel operations “SAM” will be conducted at various events to encourage the organization of return by appointing a designated driver “one who leads, not drinking.” Breathalysers will be also distributed to road users on the site of festivities to enable them to check their driving ability. Police and gendarmes will be mobilized on the roads department and intensify their controls on hazardous behavior such as speed, alcohol, taking narcotics or the use of mobile phones while driving.

New measures

New measures against excessive speeding and driving with fake licenses have just taken beings. And since 20 November 2016, vehicles being tested in excess of 50 km / h (or more) of the speed limit are immobilized and placed immediately impounded by the police in reflective vest.

Hitherto limited to cases of recurrence of excessive speeding, a misdemeanor punishable by three months’ imprisonment and 3750 euro fine, the immobilisation faculty is now possible from the finding of a first passing offense 50 km / h or more.

The second measure to create a specific offense of driving a vehicle by use of a driving license forged or falsified, which will now be punishable by five years imprisonment, 75 000 Euros fine and several sentences further, including the compulsory confiscation of the vehicle Drink or drive, choose…

In 2015 and 2016, alcohol remains, with speed, one of the two main causes of road deaths. For the year-end holidays, the Road Safety alerts the public and offers solutions. The film “The Last Glass” and two radio spots revive the “shock wave” of pain occurred after a road accident after an alcohol at a party. A series of films and radio spots, of a different kind and tour with celebrity hosts of television and radio, giving good tips to confiscate the keys to a friend who drank too much without getting angry with him permanently.

Motorcyclists: Beware Danger!

A motorcycle, the greatest danger is to think that there is none. In 2015, users of motorized two-wheelers accounted for nearly a quarter of road deaths with 614 riders and 155 motorcycles. For the same distance, a motorcycle driver is 23 times more likely to be killed on the road a motorist.

Since Sunday, November 20, 2016, wearing gloves is mandatory for certified drivers and passengers (even minor) of the two or three-wheeled motorized. In this context, the Road Safety has launched a campaign, reminding users and passengers of motorcycles and scooters the value of their hands and the need to protect them with gloves. Since 1 January 2016, all drivers of motorized two-wheelers, motorized three-wheelers or motor quadricycle without fairing is also required to have a high visibility vest on him or in a storage of the vehicle.

The Inter ministerial Committee for Road Safety, met on 2 October 2015, decided to generalize the entire fleet of two circulating, motorized three-wheelers and quads pleading to legal size.

The owners of these vehicles therefore have a period of just over six months to come into compliance with the plate size. Otherwise, from 1 July 2017, any vehicle driver intercepted an illegal, illegible or removable plate will be sanctioned with a 4th class fine is € 135.

The standardization of license plates will simplify the control of security forces and allow equal treatment of the user’s vis-à-vis the radar.

The prefecture finally recalls that the front glass is dangerous for road safety. From the outside, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to maintain eye contact with the driver and thus to anticipate his conduct. The surteintage contributes, moreover, to conceal serious offenses such as the use of mobile devices or the port default seatbelt.

At a time when the terrorist threat is particularly high, recalling the ban preserves the ability of law enforcement to react to unsafe behavior of a driver or passenger of a vehicle. Surteintage the front windows will be banned from 1 January 2017. The offenders will face a fine of 135 Euros which will be accompanied by a withdrawal of 3 points on the driving license.

Road safety: yellow jacket, it is now

This is the implementation of Decree No 2015-514 of May 7, 2015 concerning the detention and harbor of the high visibility vest. It has long been subject to wear a yellow vest for motorcyclists. A measure caused a scandal and had been abandoned. But it’s failing to admit defeat, the government returned to the charge, but in a different way. Like motorists must have a yellow vest in their vehicles since January 1, bikers will also have the device on them in the event of an asset.

And it is partly because of these various turnovers that many users are still lost on the final implementation of this decree. So make it a point to what lies ahead.

So yes, from 1 January 2016, the presence of the yellow reflective vest on a motorcycle is mandatory. It must be under the seat or in his jacket to make it handy in case of emergency stop. In case of control, the non-presence of the device will cost 11 Euros fine and in case of breakdown at the roadside, if you do not wear it, the bill will rise to 135 euro fine. In the end, it’s a simple alignment in the car… The triangle less.

Under no circumstances wear the wheelchair is required, as is the requirement to have a second for the passenger. Always in line with the car, one vest with CE enough to be legal (excluding common sense would dictate that we have in a second). However, wearing the reflective armband, which had been mentioned at the time, is not allowed.

The majority of bikers are not excited about the introduction of this device. For many, they see this decree as an open door to a requirement to wear it permanently (just like the technical inspection) but also the lack of space on the bike makes a fuss.

Axa Prevention offers 30,000 fluorescent vests for motorcyclists

Since January 1, lugging a high visibility vest in the trunk of his bike or scooter is obligatory under penalty of a fine of € 11 or € 135 in case of an emergency stop without this equipment on the back! The insurer Axa helps to equip free by distributing some 30,000 fluorescent vests in its branches and on its website Axa Prevention.

Although a safety vest does not cost very expensive is always better than nothing!

This initiative implemented by Axa Prevention and Club 14 will continue until 31 March and comes to echo the position of the insurer in favor of wearing the vest by the user 2 and 3-wheelers.

“The requirement to hold a vest is a factor in improving safety on motorcycles we support with 14 Club and we support with the free provision of 30,000 reflective vests. We are going even further since we recommend wearing the vest in case of rain, and the night to be better protected, “said Eric, President of AXA Prevention.

Polices handed out reflective vests at the roadside

You have a reflective vest in your car and positioned so that you can in case of emergency use even before the car off? So that’s focused police during a security event, which took place in recent days on the outskirts. Officers checked the driver only, but they also handed out vests.
“The aim of this event is to provide a reflective vest and passenger drivers,” explained the spokesman police Marcel. One of the first controlled brakes should vest placed in the trunk of his personal car, moreover, under heavy baggage, which could not be raised. And that’s wrong.

Now these situations want police warn the driver. “Safety vest should be placed inside the vehicle, such as a mailbox. If it is the driver in the trunk, it may happen that the incident will be struck down even before it wears, “warned Marcela.

Other drivers should keep on hand. He was among them Richard. “Vest got in the car more,” said the driver, who is convinced that similar police actions increase the safety of drivers.

Reflective vests police now distributed throughout, in the context of other services. The event focused directly on the high visibility vests will take place several times, and in December and early next year.

True-False against the compulsory high visibility vest

Since 1 January this year the yellow vest is mandatory for motorcyclists and motorists, but the mode of application of this new rule are still a little confused. Let us try to see a little clearer with the answers to questions that you ask about this. Some are obvious to some, but it’s better in the saying…

The yellow color is not imposed: True

Published in the Official Journal of 10 May 2015, speaks exactly a “high visibility vest,” which means that it may be from other equipment reflective as a yellow vest. Your jacket may be of another color (orange for example), but in practice, most equipment sold in the shops are bright yellow.

Wearing a yellow vest must be permanent: False

It is very clear in the texts: it is not a matter for bikers to wear retro-reflective equipment permanently, but to own one “on them or in their vehicle storage (net, safe …) “and they will” wear down when their vehicle after an emergency stop, to improve their visibility.”

The fine can go up to 135 €: True

If you do not have a retro reflective vest during inspection equipment, you can scoop a ticket for € 11 (1st class fine). However, the addition may be more salt if you stop and get off the bike without wearing the compulsory yellow vest: it is then a fine of € 135 (4th class) that hangs in your face!

A simple retro reflective armband may suffice: False

According to a decree dating from 29 September 2008 on which is based, is considered vest” any clothing worn on the upper body such as jacket, parka, vest, shirt or tunic.” It should be limited to those described equipment, in which are not a simple cuff, even if it was a time been considered as mandatory equipment of visibility … However, CE marking is mandatory to certify retro-reflective qualities of your equipment for it to be certified “high visibility”.

It is mandatory to take a second vest for passenger: False

What is not forbidden is allowed, as they say … In the texts, there is no requirement to carry a second high visibility vest, even if common sense recommends: “The Order is to extend the obligation to hold a high visibility vest with reflective tape, already applicable to motorists, drivers of a motor vehicle with two or three wheels” as it is written. Motorists also can be content with a single vest … There is the law and the spirit of the law. Finally, we will add that the triangle is not intended as mandatory equipment for two or three wheels, for obvious practical issues of transportation…