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Should not forget the reflective vest on the way

On the way to the sea watch out for high fines abroad. Therefore, drivers have to pay attention, for example, to using directional lights in Austria. In Austria, drivers, in addition to directional lights for which they are not likely to be fined more than two thousand Euros, should not forget the reflective vests.

 

The use of directional lights in Austria is subject to a fine of EUR 2180 (almost 60 thousand crowns). The police give this highest penalty in case you cause a road accident or someone to endanger your life. Reflective jackets must be in the vehicle and not in the trunk. This is fine for example in Austria or Germany.

 

“When traveling to Italy, you must have a mandatory vest for everyone in the vehicle,” ÚAMK said on its website. “In Austria, the vest is compulsory only for drivers, but for others in the vehicle it is recommended. However, if they have to stop and leave the vehicle on the local road or motorway, it is obligatory to have a reflective vest for anyone who leaves the car. “Unlike the Czech Republic, the warning vest is in some countries subject to traffic regulations and not a vehicle prescription.

 

In Slovenia, drivers have to pay attention to a fine for failing to sign a motorway toll, which can reach up to 800 Euros (21,600 crowns). When paying a penalty for driving without a token mark within eight days, the amount of the fine is reduced by half. This is similar when paying a fine on the spot. But this is the only way to reduce the sanction, Vice said, with police attempts in Slovenia to try to cope with lower penalties as an attempt at corruption.

 

The Mediterranean countries at a driving distance are still the most sought-after holiday destinations for Bohemia. Croatia visited 721 thousand tourists last year, about half a million went to Italy. More than 280,000 Czech tourists went to Austria and a hundred thousand less to Hungary.

Add some extra reflective vests in car on vacation

Do you make a holiday car? Add some extra reflective vests instead and learn the specifics required by local regulations. Even if you are in a dispute with a foreign police officer (who often does not have to speak otherwise than “your” language) the truth, do not let your vacation spoil unnecessary conjecture.

 

European auto clubs warn that police officers are preparing for a sharper regime for the summer. According to Aldrich Vanier, the president of ÚAMK, he will focus on strict adherence to road traffic rules. “For example, it will focus on speed limits, driving under the influence of alcohol and other addictive substances, safe distance, technical condition of the vehicle, or poor parking,” warns Vanier. In Slovakia, since the New Year, you will not have a common highway mark, but an electronic vignette that you buy either on the border or on the web (details here). In Slovakia, penalties for speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol, other addictive substances, and the like have also been tightened.

 

If you do not have a motorway mark in Austria, a passenger car will be fined 120 Euros and 65 Euros for motorbikes. “There is a fine of 200 Swiss francs in Switzerland for the absence of a motorway. In Slovenia, fines are even higher. There you pay 300 to 800 Euros (21,600 crowns), but if you pay on the spot or within 8 days, the amount is reduced by up to half, “says Vanier. In addition, watch out for attempts at lower penalties to be seen by the yellow vest dressed police in Slovenia as an attempt at corruption. As in the Czech Republic, fines are also threatened by the fact that you have an old invalid highway stamp.

 

Old cars are not allowed to Paris

From 1 July, they have a low-emission zone in Paris, where vehicles with an emission class of Euro 2 and below cannot. Entry forbidden for them is valid from Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm. The penalty for entering the ban is set from € 35 to € 78, but the collection starts only from September 1. The emission zone system has been in Germany for many years, it is necessary to have a special plaque corresponding to the emission standard on the windscreen. You can find it in the Czech Republic and Germany (there is cheaper than in the Czech Republic).

 

“In France, there is also a new ban on the use of headphones when driving, whether it is a bicycle, a motorcycle or a passenger car,” warns Aldrich Vanier, the same ban applies in Greece. In France, a tester of alcohol is mandatory, just the old tube with a balloon. In France, they sell them on petrol. If you do not have it, you will not be fined for Vanier, but it is a threat that the police officer in safety vest can get you out of the road.

 

You must have a fire brigade and safety vest in car

Are you planning to go to Europe by car? Then, besides the mandatory safety equipment that is valid in the Czech Republic, you should get some extra stuff. In addition, sometimes such requests are strange. Look at them at a glance.

 

Reflective vests, gloves, triangle – Even such details can make Czech drivers more difficult to spend abroad. When traveling to another European country, make sure you have everything in your car that you have. In some countries, the mandatory equipment differs significantly from the Czech Republic. Check out what you have to bring with you in accordance with ÚAMK in selected European countries.

 

Fire extinguisher

Many drivers are surprised to have a fire extinguisher in some European countries. This is true for cars, bikers or cyclists, of course, not necessarily. Have a fire extinguisher if you are traveling to Bulgaria, Romania, Poland or Greece.

 

Reflective vests

Even in the Czech Republic, it is sometimes unclear to drivers whether they need a reflective vest for everyone or just for themselves. Everyone who is out of the car because of an emergency must wear a vest in France, Italy or Poland, but also in Slovakia and Slovenia. In Austria and Croatia, it is enough to have a high visibility vest only for drivers.

 

 

Police gave pedestrians reflective vest during the inspection

During their Saturday action, the police from Zama distributed gifts … to controlled persons. Pedestrians, who were poorly visible after dark, handed out reflective vests. However, there were also those for whom the meeting with uniforms ended with a mandate.

 

Saturday activities were focused on pedestrian safety. Therefore, the uniforms paid particular attention to how drivers behave towards road users, but also controlled the behavior of these “unprotected road users.”

 

Several people who moved without reflective elements took away the uniform from the uniforms glowing in the darkness. – People encountered without reflections were told how important for the life and health of the pedestrian is its visibility on the road. The police officers promoted the habit of wearing reflectors not only outside the built-up area, but also in the built-up area – emphasizes Dorati, a spokesperson for the Municipal Police.

 

He added that during the weekend activities, road traffic officers found more than 30 offenses committed by pedestrians and almost 15 committed by the driver. Most often, the pedestrians walked on the wrong side or crossed the road in unauthorized places. However, the most common offense of the drivers was bypassing the vehicle, which stopped to give way to pedestrians – explained the police officer in safety vest.

 

 

 

The use of reflective vests will be controlled every Friday

The National Road Safety Unit and the Municipality of Montevideo initiated a traffic safety campaign aimed at motorcyclists on Friday. The measures include the free delivery of reflective safety vests. It is an educational campaign whose objective to prevent accidents and reduce the number of people injured and killed in accidents.

 

As reported every Friday in May, inspectors of the commune will be controlling the use of reflective garments in different points of the capital. The campaign aims to spread the obligatory nature of these garments as established by the latest transit law that began in March this year, Unease’s secretary Pablo told the newspaper El Observatory.

 

Although fines are already applied to drivers who do not wear reflective vests on national routes, this still does not happen in Montevideo. Isthmuses explained that the fines would begin to be applied in the capital starting in July, once the maximum term established by law for the dissemination of these new requirements has expired.

 

Inspectors of the quartermaster will be distributed in various points of the city, performing the usual documentation control for motorcyclists and the like. The controls will be carried out every Friday in two shifts: between 8 and 12 o’clock and between 3 and 7 o’clock.

 

During these checks, the inspectors will inform the motorcyclists about the obligatory nature of these reflective garments, and will even facilitate access to them for those drivers who do not have it.

 

The use of this security element is mandatory for those who travel by motorcycle or similar, as stipulated in article 7 of Law 19.061. This indicates that the “permanent use during its circulation in all public roads” of vest, jacket or reflective bands. If not used, the fine amounts to about 403 pesos (0.5 resettable units) per person.

 

Police forced to use outdated bulletproof vests

Brussels some have been for more than two years and their ballistic resistance is no longer guaranteed.

 

Polemic within the Midi police zone, which covers the territories of Anderlecht, Forest and Saint-Gilles! According to our information, members of the staff of the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC), sort of special units of the federal police but at the local level, use daily Class 4 bulletproof safety vests, the most resistant, for missions which are attributed to them. But it comes back to us that all of these bulletproof vests are out of date since last year.

 

When a vest is out of date, it means that the structure no longer guarantees the safety of the officer because of several factors including humidity. “Result: the impacts are much heavier which leads to an increased risk of bruises, bruises or fractures of police intervention,” says Alain, police advisor of the Midi area, who arrested the police college.

 

But that’s not all. The 21 staff members of BAC Midi Zone use a kit to transfer Level 2 inmates, considered dangerous. “Despite the increase in level 2 prisoner transfers that LAC staff members have been facing for several months, they have only one kit, which led them last year to borrow material from the federal police to make the transfer of detainees in the best possible security conditions for them and for the prisoners concerned who must also wear these reflective vests, “adds Alain.

 

Only here, the class 4 bulletproof vests that are in this kit are also out of date since … 2014. The parties were therefore forced to make their own makeshift repairs to make the vests operational.

 

On the side of the Midi police zone, we recognize that problems have occurred in the delivery, but that the situation is now in order. “We ordered 30 vests last year, divided between the different police services,” said Marie Verbose, spokeswoman for the area. “In addition, an order was made for 80 additional chasubles that were delivered last week and will soon be distributed to BAC staff.”

 

The Midi police zone is a candidate to be a pilot zone to equip some of its personnel with tasters, these electric impulse guns. The information was confirmed by the spokesperson for the area. An idea that had already been proposed by police advisor Alain: “This non-lethal weapon sends two electrodes that release a discharge that temporarily blocks the nervous system and briefly immobilizes the affected person to allow the police to intervene and proceed with his arrest “, commented Alain in safety clothing, police advisor in the Midi area, who arrested the college.”These tasters would prevent the police from having to use their service weapon to ensure their integrity while guaranteeing the safety of those arrested.”

 

ADAC distributes safety tests to first-graders

The Federal Statistical Office recorded 28 674 injured children on Germany’s roads during the past year, 71 of which were fatal. Whether you are traveling by car, by bike or on foot, road safety is always an important issue. “If you go to school, you have to deal with traffic,” says Jorgen Lecher, member of the board of directors for traffic, environment and technology at the ADAC Hessen-Thüringen, the first-graders at the ADAC.

 

Increase visibility

Here, the 122 students each receive a child-friendly safety jacket with hood and the silhouettes of traffic detectives Felix and Frieda, which increases the visibility of the children in traffic through reflectors and the signal color neon yellow to 140 meters instead of the original 25 to 40 meters. Thus, the drivers can adjust their pace and respond in dangerous situations earlier. Since the beginning of the action five years ago, about 4.5 million safety vests were distributed in Germany to first-graders and preschoolers; in Hessen alone, this year 58,000 are at more than 1,100 schools. “Every child who is killed in traffic is one thing too much,” says Hessian Minister of Education Alexander Lora. The small ones are disadvantaged in the road traffic in many ways, for example due to their small body size and their short legs. But dark clothing also makes children often overlooked. Particularly in the dark season’s autumn and winter, eye-catching clothing is therefore essential, says Lecher. A photo is designed to illustrate the problem to the primary schoolchildren: Four of the five illustrated children wear safety vests and are very good to look at, while the fifth is barely visible. Rose-Lore Schulz, the Deputy for the Deputy for Mayor Sven Gerick, also warned the children of inattention regarding the dangers of road traffic: “You only have to think of one thing: that you will come home safely.”

 

Get to other schools

Before the children move around the row to pick up their reflective vests, they promise to wear them on a regular basis. In the coming years, more schools will be reached with the action of the ADAC Foundation “Geber Engel”, for example by means of reporting by a private television station.

 

Warning vests are designed to make the route safer

18,000 pieces are distributed in the third school week.

With the distribution of 18,000 warning vests to the schoolchildren, Upper Austrian Civil Protection and the State of Upper Austria are again contributing to the promotion of traffic safety at schools. Under the motto “Safe school path”, a comprehensive coverage of civil protection safety bags with reflective vests will take place in the third school week.

 

Motorists see children earlier

Civil Protection President NR-Ed. Michael Hammer recommends that the parents wear the warning vests to their children in the spare time, because the tins will be visible to 150 and not only to 30 meters for other traffic users. As usual, it is to be checked again in the winter months whether the warning vests are worn. Manfred Limbic and the regional councilors Gunter and Elmer were positive: 50 percent of the children were wearing the safety vests.

 

The Debate Protection Committee does not offend anyone

On Tuesday (26.07) the District Court in Bialystok discontinued the proceedings against 8 All-Poland Youth activists, who during the January demonstration CODE set up a safety vest with the inscription “Committee for Debate Protection”.

 

On January 9, demonstrators of the Democratic Defense Committee held “in defense of the public media”. In Bialystok, the slogan “Jar slaw Polka leave” was scribbled under the seat of the regional branch of Polish Television.

 

At one point among the participants also appeared 10 activists of All-Polish Youth, who created reflective vests with their own extension of the CODE – “Debate Defense Committee” and surrounded the demonstration. They were quickly turned over by the police, some of them fined.

 

Before the district court, proceedings were held in which the Allies were accused of obstructing the course of an unreported assembly, for which they could be punished by deprivation of liberty or fines.

– The time has come when it was impossible to express their views freely. It was on the first day of the march that all were unanimous. In this case, COA activists should count on their counterparts, “he said at the defender’s defense meeting.

The All-Polish Youth activists who appeared on Tuesday (26.07) in the courtroom unanimously claimed that they did not interfere with the manifesto’s course and quit it after they had asked the police to do so.

 

The court decided to discontinue proceedings in this case, the costs of the process by the State Treasury. His decision motivated the fact that freedom of speech was the right of every citizen, and the Allies did nothing to disrupt the Democratic Defense Committee’s activists in expressing their views. The demonstrators pushed them, covered the inscription on their reflective waistcoats, directed offensive words to them.

– Judgment is a testimony of reason. We did not want to disrupt the demonstration in any way, but to express clearly our views, hence the inscription “Committee for Debate Protection” – concluded Nydia from Bialystok youth district of the All Poland.

 

Kindergarten closer to nature

Discovering the beauty of nature, listening to the sounds of nature and outdoor picnics, all in the woods – many parents dream of having a child spend their time in the kindergarten. This desire was realized in the Kindergarten No. 8 with Integration Units in Stassen. Two teachers, Justine Lisp and Kaila Kirby wear safety vest – Jacks in the integration group of 6-year-olds, are working on a kindergarten program called “Kindergarten in Kindergarten”.

 

The child in the forest is happy

Children go to the field during the hours of the kindergarten. Expeditions are organized in places that are 2 to 10 kilometers away from the kindergarten. These places, as the preschoolers point out, are usually chosen by Ms. Joanna from the Forestry Inspectorate in Stassen, who considers them to have a great opportunity for exploration for preschoolers. Children have so far visited the Beech Reserve in the vicinity of Czarina, the forest in Suchow Manly, the beech forest in Silence, the little forest over the Carnal.

 

– As part of the program children go to the field during the hours of kindergarten, usually they are in the afternoon: we leave at 9 am after breakfast, in the forest we have a picnic with meal and we go back for lunch around 12.30. The expedition lasts about 3 to 3.5 hours. Now that children have learned the forest and have assessed their ability to work, we plan to extend their stay in the forest. Another trip, due to low temperature, we plan to organize with a fire – says teacher Justine, author and coordinator of the program “Delight in the kindergarten.”

 

The exception was one of the September departures when the group went to the forest in the evening. Joanna from the Forestry Inspectorate with her husband was Joanna. Every child was under the care of their parents. Unusual atmosphere of this trip created a common fire in the clearing.

 

They take backpacks and curiosity of the world

Children on the expedition to the forest take their backpacks with food, carnivals, reflective vests and whistles. Trips are organized according to the applicable rules for the organization of school trips. The group, which is involved in the project, has 20 children and is an integration group attended by children with disabilities. As noted by the program implementers in each expedition to the forest is attended by at least 4-5 guardians, among whom there is always someone from the parents.

 

– The purpose of the program is to create space for preschool children to work in direct contact with nature. The inspiration for this initiative was Richard Lour’s book, “Last Forest Child,” where I first met with the term Deficit Syndrome. The research-based author shows how much impact children have on the environment. I also saw forest nurseries with great success in Germany, few in Poland and above all in Scandinavia. I wanted to make my kindergarteners at least a little space. It turned out that in the system kindergarten it is possible, for which we greatly thank the director Alicia – says teacher Justine.

 

There is no scream, no plastic and limited space

During the expedition children learn about the look and names of trees, their fruits, seeds, leaves, color, they have to overcome uneven terrain, move on a very diverse background, for example barefoot, also collect “treasures”, which are then used in various ways in kindergarten .

 

– The benefits of going to the forest are enormous, both for teachers and children. We see the relationship between children and teachers between us. Forest gives peace, fosters reflection, and uniquely combines. There is no yelling, plastic, limited space. We do not have the slightest doubt that children’s stay in the forest stimulates the emotional, social, physical and cognitive development of children. They meet their fundamental needs: movement, play, acceptance, sense of security, development. The forest is a great place to meet these needs and at the best of times, because in contact with nature. And winter trips will certainly help improve our preschoolers’ resilience, “says Justine in reflective clothing.

 

The program runs from 1 September to 30 June 2016. Developers plan to continue in the following years. Before the group of 6-year-olds still about 20 trips to the forest.

– What will they bring? We do not know. Certainly it is a good change aimed at meeting the developmental needs of children. And we certainly will not turn back and we will continue our activities, because we see that they bring a lot of good – adds the teacher.