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It is important to be seen. Police handed out reflective tape for pedestrians

Autumn foggy or rainy weather, the many drivers and not complicate them traveling. Darkness and poor weather conditions would be on the road had to adapt not only motorists, but also pedestrians and cyclists without safety vest, because they are the most vulnerable road users and the consequences of accidents are often fatal.

 

“The important point is therefore that everyone who move on roads properly seen. Visibility of pedestrians or cyclists can be increased and properly chosen clothes and accessories with patches of fluorescent and reflective materials. People in dark clothes and black are in poor visibility seen the worst, “said spokesman Simon police.

 

For these reasons, it took place on Monday morning at various locations in Kromeriz and Hulin traffic safety action “We are”, which was primarily focused precisely on this most vulnerable group.

 

“Traffic policemen together with city policemen, the regional coordinator BESIP as police spokesperson and handed out nearly two hundred reflective bags, as well as reflective tape,” police spokesman quantified.

 

They approached various road users, mostly cyclists and pedestrians of all ages and all explain how it is important for them to be on the road to see properly.

Road safety: how to remain visible on foot or by bicycle when the night comes down?

When night falls, pedestrians and cyclists are vulnerable. The workers without a safety vest can’t be seen clearly when the light is dimly. The winter season is almost half the pedestrians killed last year, and accidents involving cyclists are increasing. Preventive actions are carried out.

 

Visible up to 150 meters

Retro reflective stick strips on the schoolbag children or in the back of cycling proves particularly effective. Beyond 30 meters, an individual having these stickers continues to be visible up to 150 meters.

 

It is also essential that the bikes are visible at night. For this, the lights should be installed. A danger retractor can also sit on the motorbike so that motorists take more distance to overtake the cyclist. Finally, it is advisable to wear a reflective vest.

Reflective vest in France from now mandatory

From January 1, 2016 is also on the engine in France for driver and passenger are required to have a CE-approved reflective vest with him. It is then obliged to raise this as a rider or driver of a tricycle if you are outside built-up areas is to consider a non-functional motorcycle / tricycle or in an emergency stop for another reason.

 

The penalty for not having with him a fluorescent vest with € 38 certainly not high, but an emergency can provide more cost; for it not to have the safety vest the fine can -as additional Breakdown rise up to 750 Euros! Moreover, this rule also applies to cyclists and drivers of a wheelchair. Cars are still the familiar warning triangle and an alcohol test, but the latter two do not apply to motorcyclists.

 

As always and everywhere reigns subjectivity and emotion over rational.

It is not always true that more striking with a yellow cardigan.

 

This is the contrast that you have with the environment. It’s a hell around, summer day, lots of light; you fall right in with dark clothing. And most motorcyclists ride in good weather and when it is light.

 

Neither in low light trap you neither are your clothes nor with what color, is you seen as your clothes reflect light. So the best thing is normal dark motorcycle with lots of reflective surfaces.

But unfortunately, as usual, take the political decisions that are totally not related to the actual fact.

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.

That’s to do with breakdowns on the highway

The engine stutters, the car will slow down the other cars race past a. Those who remain are on the highway, must be careful. What to do now? Reflective accessory and safety vest can help you.

 

The important thing is that you do not panic and act rashly. Remember that the car does not count on the highway with pedestrians and go much faster than in the city. With these tips you can master the next breakdown on the highway.

 

Step 1: road users warn

Once you realize that their car is something wrong, you should turn on the hazard lights to warn the traffic behind. Should also the hazard lights have failed, you need to draw attention to them by raising hands. This should take if possible the passenger.

 

Step 2: Walk from the kerbside

Control at the first signs of a breakdown a suitable place to stop, if possible, a breakdown bay or regular parking. Who is not able to get there, must be the vehicle on the hard shoulder, but in any case leave as much as possible at the right edge of the roadway.

 

Step 3: The safety vest is mandatory

Once the vehicle is stationary, you should wear a safety reflective vest. If the situation allows, you can first get out and they create there. As of July 01, 2014 in Germany, the requirement to carry such applies. “However, we recommend carry additional west, so that passengers from a distance can be seen leaving the car,” explains Kurt, President of the German road (DVW).

“Most important, exit the vehicle on the passenger side and embark directly behind the guardrail,” says Kurt.

 

Step 4: Set up the warning triangle

If all occupants of moving traffic in security secure the vehicle from: Place the warning triangle with reflective tape at the right edge of the roadway on. On motorways there should be 150 meters ahead of the broken-down vehicle are positioned so that the following road users sufficient time to adjust their driving behavior accordingly. Offer guidance delineators that are placed every 50 meters.

 

Step 5: call roadside assistance

Or you call the breakdown service. Many drivers use her phone. It is important to convey the exact breakdown location and direction of travel. Per GPS on the navigation device or smartphone to people can easily locate.

The warning vest belongs in every car

Although the safety vest on German roads is not compulsory for car drivers, the Society for Technical Supervision for their own safety in a breakdown or accident wearing the safety equipment. In many European countries, in addition to the warning triangle, the yellow, orange or red reflective vest must in every vehicle to be carried. Those who is ignore the rules abroad, risking heavy fines.

 

Safe traveling with safety vest

Who wears a safety vest, is five times perceived earlier because of the luminous material. It is particularly in accident assistance, when setting up the warning triangle, when changing tires or the road without vest a significantly higher risk of being overlooked in the dark. For safety vests, there is a uniform European standard. The approved safety vests have the European mark EN control 471. In general, they are getting for a few Euros.

 

Safety vest should be handy

Who on the highway or country road an accident or breakdown should create the reflective vest before leaving the car. A conceivable unfavorable place to keep the safety vests in the car, so is the trunk. Better is the Storage under the driver’s seat, in the slots of the door or in the glove compartment.

 

In Germany (yet) compulsory for all

In Germany, carrying a high visibility vest compulsory only in commercial vehicles. The rules in many European countries are very different and in some countries threaten disregard of the safety vest compulsory sensitive high fines.

 

Where a safety vest is mandatory

In France, Croatia, Montenegro, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Romania (over 3.5 tons) and the Czech Republic are motorists obliged constantly carry a reflective vest and apply when needed. In other countries there are only required to wear in case of breakdown or accident, such as in Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.

 

Part very fines abroad

In part for all occupants such a vest is mandatory. Anyone outside built at a breakdown or accident outside the vehicle resides must also wearing a safety vest. Safety vest muffles are asked by the police quickly to checkout – which can sometimes even cost 100 euro. 120-600 Euros are for overdue in Portugal. is calculated separately in some countries, if in an accident or breakdown, the jacket is not being worn – which can in Belgium cost up to 1 375 Euros and in Hungary after all, still up to 105 Euros.

 

Even cyclists must wear safety vest

Important for travelers in Italy: Here cyclists must wear a reflective jacket outside built half an hour before sunrise and half an hour after sunset. The same applies in the tunnel. Otherwise, there is a fine 23-92 Euro.

 

Penalties are enforced throughout Europe

Who has to pay in a neighboring European country, a fine, which is also the journey to Germany not safe from the punishment? Because from a fine of 70 Euros applies Europe-wide enforcement.

Chicken with safety vest

Chicken Polly likes to go wandering. Your holder Dielingen it has therefore been equipped with a reflective safety vest, safety ultimately prevail.

 

Immediately have chickens which erupt repeatedly from their enclosure and participate as a pedestrian on the road, wearing safety vests for safety reasons. Those caught without signal vest, must reckon with a delicate fine of up to ten fresh eggs.

 

Of course, not really, farmer Clemens from Dielingen is nevertheless a good example and has its outliers Chicken Polly equipped with the protective clothing. “Polly regularly flies over the fence and going on the main road 51 walks. We did not want to clip the wings of her. Therefore, they now wearing a reflective jacket for their own safety, “explains Clemens.

 

He had discovered the model on the internet with an English manufacturer. A bit of fun must be, the farmer, where the chickens live in free range. Polly feels apparently comfortable with the unfamiliar chicken’s clothes and takes her trips as usual. Only the rooster first could not believe his eyes.

 

Signal vests on Amazon

Also at online retailer Amazon, there are the bright shining vests with the appropriate title to buy. The – not entirely serious – Customer Reviews suggest a bestseller. “At last longer cycling trips is with the chickens in the darker half of nothing in the way,” writes user “Kaminski”. But: “The visibility on public roads is excellent, even if the chickens have not yet learned to keep on circus wheels the track.”

 

“Had I constantly buy new chickens, as they are every time flown in the flight path in and against the window of the plane stuck,” writes user “flashpoint”. Thanks to the vest rotate pilots now from time. Accordingly, “Chubby Chicken on demand a certain, tightening ‘the reflective vest under the wings and the chest, especially when taking the grains Pick attitude.” Said Polly seems to have these symptoms at least not yet expressed.

New recommendations for use safety clothing

The use of clothing for emergency medical personnel plays a big role for their own protection. You must provide sufficient optical warning effect not last. End of September 2013, with the EN ISO 20471: effect in 2013 is a new standard. You should make safety vest even more effective and is the current EN replace 471st

 

Existing clothing according to EN 471 may be carried on according to the company 3M, however. Emergency services so do not stock up until the end of September with new turnout gear itself.

 

Important change is but for future new acquisitions. Then it should be ensured, if the belonging to the clothing certificate is still valid. As long as may be clothing 471 still placed on the market even after the (old) EN.

Background: High visibility clothing is subjected to examination. The then issued certificate is limited to five years. The expiration date is apparent from the certificate. At the latest at the expiry of the certificate, the manufacturer should therefore have converted to the new ISO 20,471th

 

Horizontal reflective tape, fluorescent material

With regard to the design, the clothes should continue to exist on all sides of striking material – in terms of the 360-degree visibility, as 3M. Horizontal reflective stripes and fluorescent material to the hull and the trouser legs and sleeves enclose. The minimum width of the circulating material must be even with the fluorescent background material at least 5 cm.

 

Some manufacturers of EMS gear, such as the company dealing for some time with the new standard. You attempted to transfer the putative requirements of ISO 20471 already on their products.

 

Due to the new standard also is GUV rule “use of personal protective equipment in the emergency service” revised (GUV-R 2106). Expected to be available by the end of 2013 the new version. Certificates, in which both the new ISO 20471 as well as the new GUV referenced, are to be expected until the GUV is adopted. Emergency services should especially so currently do not rush and wait until the new GUV has been published. Presumably, this will then also get a slightly different name or number.

Reflective vest ensure the safety of people

This year the festival will take place between Saturday 1st and Sunday October 2, concentrating as many pedestrians are directed to this commune on Saturday from 19:00

On the occasion of the commemoration of the Feast girl in honor of the Virgin, hundreds of pilgrims walk from the main cities of the Region of Coquimbo. This year the festival will run from this weekend concentrating as many pedestrians are directed to this commune on Saturday from 19:00.

Those entering on foot to the sanctuary, passing through the Route 43, D-45 and D-41, so motorists are advised to travel at low speed to care the people without safety vest, attentive to the signs of carabineers and the high presence of pedestrians in the sector. All this is as indications of Transportation Report.

In order to ensure the safety of pedestrians, transport recommends taking the following precautions:

-Avoid Walking very close to the hearth, as it is exposed to being hit by oncoming vehicles. Keeping something with reflective material can enhance your visibility.

-Where No hearth, you can walk along the berms or side strips of the road, but always on the left side of her, in front of the vehicles.

Never cross a bend or close to it. Nor do it in areas where you cannot see well if a vehicle is coming. No matter how lonely it is the way, stop, look and listen.

Especially at night, try to use brightly colored clothing or some element that allows drivers to see from afar as reflective vest, also walk leading the way with a flashlight, which must always keep lighting up the floor to be noticed and not dazzle motorists.

In addition, the municipality of the commune has arranged a series of traffic mitigation measures to facilitate the entry of visitors.

Wear safety vest will be safer

Motorcycle riders are the most clueless with the new traffic law.

Yesterday was quite normal driving without retro reflective clothing and no lights on their vehicles to see.

Both are requirements circulation any time of day and disrespect carries a fine of ¢ 47,000 for each violation.

Diego Herrera, director of the Traffic Police, confirmed that the non-use of reflective vest or any other suit was one of the repeated violations s yesterday.

 

Furthermore, it is common to see that drivers take advantage of the dams to advance in the middle of the road.

Under the new traffic rule, who forth between lines of vehicles more than 25 kilometers per hour is exposed to a fine of ¢ 94,000.

The new provisions do not like at all drivers who complain of being forced to use safety devices at all times.

However, Silvia, director of the Road Safety Council, explained that the use of this device throughout the day approved the recommendation of the Motorcycle Importers Association.

 

“As there are sunny days, there is very dark or rainy days, when clarity is drastically reduced and it is necessary to make them visible,” said Bolanos.

It is planned that next Tuesday discusses the regulations with the specifications of the retro safety vest; then it would take public consultation (through publication in La Gaceta) and is expected to govern two weeks later.

 

Another complaint is that motorcyclists are forced to turn on the lights at any time and that represents an additional expense of battery. But Bolanos said the battery of the bike “generates one, and there is no justification for saying that consumption increases.”