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Avoiding autumn road accidents with wearing safety vest

Whether one is a pedestrian, cyclist or motorist, autumn, visibility is reduced, especially when the days shrink with the transition to winter time. Here are some road safety tips to see and be seen.

 

In autumn, we review its road safety rules

Whether one is a pedestrian, cyclist or motorist, autumn, visibility is reduced, especially when changing to winter time. The accident risks are increasing. In 2016, road deaths have increased for the second consecutive year, both at national and regional level, while the balance sheet in 2015 was rather positive (-8 killed or -4.1% compared to 2014 by region Centre- Loire valley). Since the beginning of 2016 (January to September), according to figures from the Road Safety Regional Observatory  of the Center-Loire Valley, there is an increase in the number of deceased (killed 2 or + 4%) -the trend is similar to the national level (76 killed or + 3.1%) – compared to the previous year. Here are some safety rules to follow.

Pedestrians: 10 rules recommended by the Road Safety

  • On the sidewalk, walk away from the edge
  • Avoid down on the floor
  • Take care of the vehicles
  • Along a road or sidewalk without street, walk left the roadway. At night, wear bright clothing or reflective accessory
  • Use crosswalks to cross or, failing that, seek the safest place
  • Before crossing, look left, right, then left again before to commit. In the middle of the road, look right again
  • At the traffic lights, wait for the man to be turned green for crossing. Ensure that all vehicles are stopped
  • Never run to cross
  • Pay attention to bicycles and motorcycles that weave between cars
  • At an intersection, when crossing, be careful to vehicles coming from other streets

 

For children on the way to school (on the advice of the police)

With the time change, the way to school is now done at night. For children who go there on foot or bicycle, you should make them wear a yellow vest regardless of their age. The vest will allow them to be seen by motorists.

 

Namely: the child has a visual acuity reduced until the age of 10 years. Although at 6 or 7 years old, his field of vision is comparable to that in adults, it tends to neglect peripheral vision essential to the understanding of the dangers of traffic. The child does not know properly judge distances, and it is difficult to distinguish a car that slowly moves from a stationary vehicle. Due to its small size, the child has a partial view of the dangers of the street signs are too high, cars or vans in parking tickets, prevented him from seeing and being seen. Parents good an example…

 

Safety Tips for Cyclists

Needless to say the Highway Code also applies to cyclists … Is not it? First, bicycle enthusiasts must wear a reflective vest and ride with equipment in good condition. Obvious that everyone does not seem to apply to the letter. Small wakeup call for better security: a bike in good condition and well equipped helps ensure your safety and that of other road users, says the road safety.

 

They are demanding more safety on the “road of death”

While a tribute is organized in memory of the victims, tongues loosen and hopes are formulated.

 

“Death Road”, an exaggerated term, “usurped” for the Department and specifically the county House of sustainable management. Responsible for maintenance of the RD231, they point to further the “errors of conduct” of users and call for their wear a safety vest and compliance with the rules of the road.

 

Simply yet to type the name of the road into a search engine to find that the axis has very bad press and cumulative fatalities. The words of the Department are bound relatives of various victims who lost their lives in different places of this long winding axis. They are called Antoine… Only on the year that just ended.

 

“And we do not know half of the accidents that have occurred on this road, as there were many others, fatal or not,” says the family of Anis, another victim of accident on the county in 2014. The girl, she has not died on that road. But she and her family had their daily switch as brutally as for others. Anis has now lost any form of autonomy. Her parents hope that she will one day a minimum of mobility and will contact them again. They engaged in a daily struggle for that.

 

Families waiting

They share another hope: that work be undertaken to secure the RD231. “We just wish there are more accidents”, begs Evelyn’s mother Anis, pointing the dangerousness of the county. “We could do if only shave a little embankments to improve visibility in bends, for example”, says the father of Anis.

 

An investigation is ongoing to determine the causes of this accident. “We will carry complaint in all cases. The results of the expertise simply determine how we will. But for now, I’m waiting to know if my son well respected speed limits and all indications are that it did “spear dad, too convinced of the accident-prone nature of the road. He added: “Myself, I never borrowed this road; I walked around by the A16.”

 

For him, there is an obvious solution to secure the road: lowering the speed limit. The man does not understand why it remains so high (90 and 70 km / h) and changes several times over a few kilometers. It also points to the lack of visibility in different places. And on the very spot where his son died, he added, “this junction should have been abolished long ago”. It’s near the same intersection Antoine Boniface, volunteer firefighter, was killed a year ago. He was on foot and climbed the RD231 at night without reflective vest. Driving at risk, but that does not resolve Nicolas Devein, his former colleague who lives a few hundred meters from the scene of the accident, to draw a line under what happened.

 

The white walking is above all a tribute, but it also offers hope of some relatives of victims. Not all want one thing: more security.

White On October 16, at 9:30 am at the school Ellingham. The procession will join the cross street of Angouleme. Participants must bring a yellow vest.

People in safety vest work for Large caps perspective

The Great Gathering of Calais and farmers wearing reflective clothing intend to conduct a major blocking operation Monday, September 5 to protest against the management of the migratory crisis and the repeated assaults every night on the axes around Calais.

 

“Our goal is to show our dismay at this situation in Calais.” With these words Frederic Van, president of the Trade Union of Calais, began the press conference on Monday morning about movement of September 5. Of Calais, port employees, traders, farmers and road haulers in safety vest are called to mobilize to get a clear answer on the dismantling of the Jungle. Two snail operations will be organized. One from Dunkirk, the other of Boulogne is Calais with rallying point where a block will be operated on the A16.

 

At the same time, the movement invites everyone to gather at the stage of the Epic in Calais at 9am and wearing a reflective vest to form a human chain up the A16.”The good-shares are over. Once software is changed “Frederic Van complete. If the movement does not get a response, officials have told they could block the highway as long as it takes, day and night.

Visitors in safety vest visit the Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum allows visitors in safety vest since two weeks working in the Dutch offshore sector up close. This happens in the interactive exhibition “Offshore Experience”. A million project, even the most expensive to the Maritime Museum (since 1873) ever launched, says museum assistant Judith Fraise. Not for nothing: “Worldwide, Dutch companies at the forefront of offshore technology, but the people on the street know that much.”

 

The exhibition should change this. “Also to show how large the importance of energy use is daily life for us all we eventually use energy, such as when cooking, driving and charging our phones. In addition, there is the future change very much: the offshore sector is in a transition from fossil fuels to CO2-neutral energy. ”

 

Wailing wind

After entering a movie about disaster drills and safety of visitors – with helmet and safety reflective vest – a “drilling platform” surrounded by a huge movie projection wall which gives them a view of 360 degrees on the sea. Waves roll in and out, the wind brushes heard and felt over the heads of small and larger distance you see sailing ships. Periodically there protrudes a storm. Then the wind howls and the waves grow.

 

For filming the sky makers climbed the lighthouse of Namaland. The surging waves eyes lifelike. Fraise: “A visitor, who worked on an oil rig, told me that he recognized the reality in our simulation.”

On the platform, visitors can start using commands such as maneuvering a ship in severe storm, to determine the proper location of a wind farm, running gas drilling and allowing countries a rattling approaching helicopter. The better you perform the task, the more points you earn.

 

Show in the middle of the room impressive scale models (scale 1: 100) of ships from the offshore sector the seas worldwide. The showpiece is a huge model of the largest ship in the world, the brand new “pioneering spirit”. Owner is the Swiss-Dutch offshore company Allseeds, with about 2500 employees. The super catamaran, from August to now, all rigs can sail to its destination or scrapping copies of their pedestal and bring lights.

 

Deep Seabed

With an elevator dropping museum visitors then off. When getting them imagine them 300 meters below sea level, far below the drilling platform. Further floating jellyfish and swimming fish. A diver focuses squatted engaged in welding. Fraise, muted: “divers can still operate at this depth. But look, if you walk you see the situation further on a seabed of 3000 meters depth. “The presence of people can no longer be there. Monitored and controlled via robots. A true copy of such operated underwater vehicle remotely hovers below the ceiling. The simulated deep seabed you see such “ROV” (remotely operated underwater vehicle) delving around swimming above the gas installations. Besides getting pipelines on the bed carefully a load of bricks plunged over – protection.

 

The sea and deep seabed simulation is set up according to the “Pepper’s Ghost” principle: using mirrors creates a lifelike illusion of the marine world to the eye of the visitor, as if you can walk right through.

 

Using the exhibition -one of the eight long-term exhibitions in the building- directs the museum, along with the many offshore companies that contributed to it, moreover, emphatically also look at the youth. Fraise in reflective uniform: “We hope to interest schoolchildren for a technical study and employment in the maritime sector.”

Reserve reflective vest is mandatory for car

From mid-September varies mandatory car equipment. Drivers of newer cars no longer need to carry a spare wheel, on the contrary, mandatory pack a reflective vest. To January 1 can also be replaced first aid kits, which will be newly instructions for first aid, PVC or larger scissors.

 

In less than a month will be able to drivers of newer cars hit the road without a spare wheel. This allows them to decree on obligatory car equipment from the workshop of the Ministry of Transport, which will take effect on September 15.

Since then, the drivers only if they reserve a car, or let her take out and replace it must be set for emergency repairing tires.

 

Apostasy obligation to carry in the car fifth spare wheel is not the case for all chauffeurs. Reserves will have to continue to carry motorists who have a car where the spare wheel is part of the so-called crumple zones. In such vehicles could in the accident fifth wheel drivers save live. If he was not in the car, safety car is rapidly reduced.

 

“Automakers and their distributors are published on its website a list of types of cars for which it is possible to delete the provision. For example, Auto will publish its list and on the website of the Ministry of Transport,” explains Jacob from the press department of the Ministry of Transport.

Reserves fall primarily for newly manufactured vehicles. Some automakers as domestic Skoda will provide some type of reserve without it. Without the reserves will be able to ride primarily drivers of newer cars. For example, those that are still manufactured and who’s new no manufacturer will equip margin.

 

Why ends reserves?

Ministry justifies end spare tires mainly because in the Czech Republic is very dense network of assistance services to drivers in distress and help him replace the wheel. On the market are also very effective kits for emergency tire repair, “This is actually a spray. It is applied to the valve and into the tire is pumped foam that fills all the cracks. The price of such sets is around CZK 1,200 and enough to seal the two wheels. The set does not help in cases where the driver his flat tire and literally rolled out of it and incur irreparable hole, “says Karle, co-owner of the garage Prague Cafes.

 

Each car will have to be safety vest

New decree on mandatory equipment has far more changes than removing the spare wheel. It is essential in particular the obligation to carry a reflective vest in the car. This change is valid from 15 September. “This obligation is closely related to the new amendment of the Highway Code, which drivers dictates that the road moved only with a reflective vest. New start paying probably next year. The decree so now drivers orders to carry vest in the car, after which they could not make excuses for anything, “says Josef from the Ministry of transport.

 

Another significant change relates to first-aid kits. Their content has rapidly expanded. It will be added, for example, instructions on first aid, which recently introduced in the Slovak Republic. Newly equipped pharmacy wills also isothermal film. A novelty is a resuscitation mask, replacing the current mask. There will also larger scissors. New aid kits will be about 70 to 150 crowns more expensive than current ones. The exchange chests but drivers with reflective clothing still do not hurry.

 

Officers handed out reflective vests

The policemen on Monday light the driver when preventive action. They also targeted visibility passengers in the event of an accident. Passengers as they received reflective vest. The event was held in cooperation with the Czech Insurers’ Bureau and SCUBA.

 

Policemen on duty stations controlled by drivers of motor vehicles, comply with all legal provisions relating to road traffic – use of seatbelts, compliance with the ban on consumption of alcohol and other addictive substances before and during the journey. “They checked and mandatory equipment, which cannot be missed reflective vest,” added police spokeswoman Lena.

 

BESIP regional coordinator for the Liberec Region is reminding drivers to duty vehicle reflective vest. Risk of injury affects all in the vehicle, therefore the passenger unless label reflectors. “They also may be visible to road users in the event of an emergency standstill and when moving around parked vehicles,” Dorval appeals.

 

During the event, police officers checked more than three dozen vehicles. Similar preventive actions, where passengers will receive a reflective fabric vest, police spokeswoman in the Liberec Region will hold a few more.

 

The fine for incomplete or incorrect mandatory equipment may climb to two thousand crowns. Be careful especially on the contents of the medicine cabinet, which must conform to legal standards and must not be expired!

 

Mandatory equipment Cars:

– Replacement bulbs (one of each type of bulb exterior lighting and signaling, with the exception of lamps).

– Spare fuses

– Key wheel nut

– Hand jacks (jack)

– Spare wheel (except vehicles equipped with a tire defect indicator with emergency emotion)

– Warning triangle

– Reflective safety vest

– First aid kit

 

Juba® add green for high visibility clothing

Juba Personal Protective Equipment has incorporated the green to the range bicolor high visibility collection. Thus, the garments that combine colors such as yellow and orange fluorine with dark now add a new color, green, resulting in eight different models of working clothes. Fluoride in green and yellow with reflective strips 3M, the new models Juba® are: a short – sleeved polo, a multi – pocket jacket, a fleece, a full suit jacket and pants, a jacket and two models parka.

 

The short sleeve polo (Wales) is made with “Micro-Mesh” breathable 160 g and 100% polyester technology; meanwhile, the safety vest (Baxter) is composed of polyester, nylon and padding and fleece (Aspen) has a 100% polyester manufacture. For the two models parkas, Venus parka is made 100% polyester, is detachable, has inside a reversible jacket has removable sleeves. Meanwhile, the Southern parka is padded interior polyurethane and nylon fleece.

 

The jacket, removable and reversible, is made with polyester Oxford / PVC lining polyester / PVC and padded. Finally, both the reflective vest and the trousers Stanford have a composition of 40% polyester and 60% cotton 240 g / m².

 

Designs women

clothing high visibility Juba® in its two – color range includes an exclusive line for women characterized by their notched fleeces in three color combinations: yellow fluorine and marine (Andes model); fluorescent orange and navy (Pyrenees model) and fluorescent yellow and green (Aspen model).

 

Protective clothing High visibility is designed to visually signal the presence of the user, in order to be detected unsafe under any daylight and under the headlights of a car in the dark. All models Juba® meet and exceed the European standard EN-471 which supports the reflective clothing designed to visually indicate the presence of the user.

 

All models have the backing of more than 50 years of experience allow Juba Personal Protective Equipment continue pushing for the maximum quality combined with comfort.

Reflective vest mandatory carriage of vehicles

Although since 1 January all cars should have one, no fines will be studied. A day that the term product demand is met has doubled.

 

At 17 days the decree takes effect requiring motorists to carry in their vehicles a reflective vest, product demand has doubled in stores that sell.

Given this situation, and considering the proximity of dates on which a large number of people go on vacation, police said that during the first few weeks in which the rule is in effect not party shall be forwarded to those who do not carry.

 

“White March was put into effect by decree. So these cases are made, especially with regard to traffic and what it has to do with violations, “said the prefect Colonel Roads and Traffic, Enrique. From Carabineers they added that audits by this issue will have an educational.

 

After this period, the extension is not yet defined; the fine will range between 0.2 and 0.5 UTM, $ 8,991 and $ 22,477.

“There is greater demand right now, but this is a standard that came 2014 and which are campaigning to remind people that as of January 1 must wear the safety vest,” stressed the official.

 

The decree, published in the Official Gazette on 6 September 2014 requires that every vehicle in your kit includes safety reflective vest, but the use of the equipment is only a recommendation, not mandatory, since for this to happen it would to change the Road Traffic Act. According to the National Traffic Safety Commission in the last decade they have killed more than six thousand people outrages product on streets and highways. “That is why this is a priority measure on traffic safety,” said Cristiana Bowen, deputy transport.

 

From the Ministry of Transport they have detailed that the change was made by decree because that would take effect more expeditiously doing so through a legal change. However, they advanced during the debate that is carried forward in the Congress on draft amending the Traffic Act in August; it could include information on the mandatory use of the vest.

 

The price vest in trading ranges between $ 1,990 and $. 10,990. Easy from the store, one of the outlets, indicate that “in recent months has noticed increased interest in these reflective vests. In fact, in several products in the same category are oversubscribed by 50%. ”

 

Sebastian commercial manager specializing in LEMENTS store traffic and safety, said that “we have been fed up with demand, people are worrying about it. It is important that users buy the vest that meets what the ministry calls and not risk buying something that does not work”. Regarding the color of the vest, the decree says this should be yellow and made of fluorescent material. In addition, you must have horizontal bands of a width not less than 50 centimeters surrounding the torso.

 

About the price of the item, Alberto Escobar, manager of public affairs for Chile Automobile Club, said that should not exceed $ 5,000. “While the warning vest with reflective tape will be cheaper lower quality one with good quality and duration should not exceed that price,” he said.

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.