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Pedestrians: be visible on the roads with reflective vest

Since 2010, pedestrian mortality on the roads has been steadily increasing. In addition, accidents are more frequent at night. However, the wearing of the yellow reflective vest is not required in case of low visibility.

 

In 2014, 499 pedestrians were killed in France and 4,323 admitted for their wounds, according to statistics from the National Observatory of Road Safety (ONISR). Since 2010, the mortality of this category of users is constantly increasing.

 

At night, accidents are more frequent and more serious. The share of pedestrians killed at night represents 47% of the pedestrian mortality, or 233 pedestrians. It is a little stronger than that of all users killed at night (41%). However, this proportion varies according to the environment: pedestrians killed at night represent 32% of the pedestrian mortality in the city (342 of which 110 at night), 73% of the pedestrian mortality on roads outside urban areas (113 of which 83 at night) and 91% pedestrian toll on motorway (44 of which 40 at night).

 

At night or in fog, pedestrian groups should be visible

Wearing retro-reflective equipment, such as the yellow vest, is not required at night or in low visibility. Road safety only recommends that pedestrians wear light-colored clothing or retro-reflective tape to be visible at 150 m instead of 30 m. On the other hand, the Highway Code provides that “at night, or during the day when visibility is insufficient, the processions, convoys, processions or groupings of pedestrians must be indicated at the front by at least one white or yellow light Switched on and at the rear by at least one red light on.”

 

Wearing yellow vest for drivers stopped on the roadside

Since July 2008, motorists and truck drivers have to wear a yellow vest when they are forced out of their parked vehicle on the road or by the roadside. Since 1 January 2016, this requirement also applies to drivers of two or three-wheeled motor vehicles. In addition, the Labor Code requires the use of high-visibility clothing for workers working on roads and highways during construction work or temporary danger.

 

Raising the awareness of the youngest

Many local initiatives to protect pedestrians have been adopted. Departmental councils require the wearing of the yellow vest for children who use the school bus. Since the start of the school year 2015, a half-day of awareness of good behaviors and basic safety rules has been introduced in high schools. Wearing retro-reflective or fluorescent visibility elements on clothing, school bags or armbands is recommended.

 

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.

 

Should an orange or yellow vest be in the car?

Many people spend their holidays on their own cars. However, if you want to get all right, you should check several things before going on. Should an orange or yellow vest be in the car? That was what experts in the breakfast with New.

 

“Before the trip, you should always check the vehicle itself, if you have the right fluids, it is technically correct. If you have the right equipment, even if we have the Geneva Convention that says the vehicle is to be equipped according to the place of registration, the country in question does not have to be a compulsory piece of equipment,” says Pert of the Central Automobile Club.

 

Recent discussions have raised the question of the color of the reflective vest. However, according to Womack, it does not matter. “It’s just a color, it’s a lot of talk about Austria that you need an orange vest, but that’s not the case, the vests have European certification, so you can have orange, red or yellow-green,” the ÚAMK spokesman explained. In some countries you have to have an alcohol testosterone in your car. Mostly they do not even check it, for example in France.

 

On your way to Croatia, you should pay attention especially to radars. “Radars are waiting for the driver almost every second village in Austria, in Vienna there are radars perhaps 15, it is also measured for every traffic constraint, and the fines are usually 50-100 Euros, from Austria there are photos, for example, for telephoning, non-attachment or for bikers for absence of a safety helmet,” Vote said.

 

If you have small children, you should definitely find out what the rules for fixing child seats are. In Croatia, Slovakia or Germany, you cannot have child seats from 3 to 12 years old on the front seats.

 

 

Do you know when and how can a police stop you

Officers wanting to keep us on the road must follow strictly defined rules. However, there are also a few rules that we must remember about. The basic question is whether the police officer who wants to stop us is safety uniformed or not. In conditions of good visibility, he can order us to stop using a vehicle stopper (the so-called “lollipop”), or with a hand. If visibility is limited, it must be a lollipop or a characteristic flashlight with red light.

 

All instructions should be issued well in advance and in a way that allows the driver to notice them and respond to them. The procedure is similar in the case of a non-uniformed officer, but he can only stop us in the built-up area. However, this does not change the fact that an attempt to stop by someone without a uniform can arouse suspicion in us. If they are justified (we have the right to believe that it may be someone impersonating a police officer), we can ignore his orders, but we should immediately go to the nearest police station in order to clarify the situation.

 

Motorized patrol looks a little different – officers in reflective vest can then use sound devices (and give us commands through external speakers), light or signaling (similarly air patrol). Usually unmarked cars have behind the rear window placed strip allowing to display subtitles – in this way, police officers can give us the command to follow them (with the “follow me” command) to the place chosen by them, where stopping will be safe.

 

It is worth adding that all orders should be issued well in advance and in a way that allows the driver to notice them and react to them. Therefore, the police officer at the last moment jumps out of the roadside greenery and runs on the road in unacceptable situations. For obvious reasons, this behavior can lead to a dangerous situation on the road. The officer must give us time to notice him and stop safely at the place indicated by him. It can be designated with the appropriate sign with the inscription “stop, roadside inspection.” Such a place cannot threaten the safety of traffic and should not be subject to a ban on stopping. However, if necessary, the police officer may order us to stop in a prohibited place, but should activate the blue flashing light before starting the inspection.

 

When we stop, we should stay in the car with our hands on the steering wheel and wait for the officer to come to us (turn off the engine, turn on the emergency lights, and above all get off, only on a clear command). He should present himself and give the reason for the detention (it is unacceptable to start the control with questions or to guess what the reason is). The police officer can check our documents and the vehicle, as well as check the driver’s sobriety. However, a search of a car is possible only if the officer has reasons for it (for example, he received a report about a committed crime and a command to revise stopped vehicles).

 

Let us also remember that when a police officer in yellow vest wants to punish us with a fine, we can refuse to accept him (the case will go to court). On the other hand, if the officer behaves in a way that raises our doubts, we can record all control (when a police officer performs his duties, he is a public figure, and we do not violate his privacy) and file a complaint at the police station.

José wear reflective vest protect children on road

The ‘semaphore man’ of Quito has spent 20 years regulating the traffic of the N-232 to the hours of entry and exit of the school. Today he receives a tribute.

 

The children greet José Maria Garcia ‘Machala’ while he, without taking his eyes off the road, checks that the vehicles have stopped when they reach the zebra crossing located next to the entrance to the school Fernando, which he has been attending five times a day for the past 20 years. In all this time, he has only missed his appointment in “very few occasions.” “If someday I do not come, people miss me,” he said. Dressed in a reflective vest, and with the help of a stop sign, warns drivers to stop when they travel on the N-232 national road to allow children to cross. “I am delighted and I am doing it because I love my people very much, and I will be there as long as I can,” he explained, while continuing to monitor the traffic.

 

To recognize their selfless work, the City Council and the association of mothers and fathers of the school have organized this afternoon a tribute at the house of culture. Most of them are wearing the high visibility vest. It will be an emotional act, which will coincide with his 73th birthday, in which he will be give details of the children, an audiovisual project will be screen, and there will be “some surprise.” Next, you will also discover the plaque that has been place in the place that bears his name, and which was decide after a popular consultation in which there was a great deal of the neighbors. The mayor, Morales, stressed, “If someone deserves this recognition, it is Machala.” Not only in Fifth, know his work. Many people who travel through the crossing has met once with the ‘traffic light man’: “It is already a typical image of Quito.”

 

José Maria was a municipal worker and decided to continue providing this retired service: “Many cars and heavy trucks pass through this national highway,” which is a way to increase the safety of pedestrians, said the local official.

 

Of the same opinion they were shown yesterday afternoon at the doors of the school Maria Pillar and Susana, grandmother and mother of students, who acknowledged and appreciated their task: “We are much calmer knowing that he is here stopping the cars. The children pay much attention to him; he is a very dear person in the locality and with wearing a yellow vest.” It is usual to see him minutes before school entry and exit times, but he also collaborates to regulate traffic if there is any exit from the students.

 

The opponents in reflective vest hold a sharp protest

Several dozen opponents in yellow vest of presidential couple Lech and Maria Kaczynski on the Wawa Hill met on the first anniversary of the Wawa Hill funeral. Demonstration takes place under the slogan “Wawa without politicians”. Participants chanted the slogan “Cardinal mistake” and “Wawa kings, not presidents”. There was talk of verbal opponents and supporters of burial at Wawa.

 

Demonstration dressed in reflective waistcoats formed a cube before entering the castle from Canonizes Street. Passers gave away the flags with the inscription “Cardinal error 18.04.2010”. Among the gathered were the verbal attacks of adversaries and supporters of burial at Wawa.

 

According to the representatives of the “Civic Wawa” Association, which is protesting against the burial of the presidential couple at Wawa, the place and other national symbols were appropriated and used by politicians. They chatted: “Cardinal mistake” and “Wawa kings, not presidents”. A few days later – notwithstanding the Poles’ opinion – a controversial decision on the burial place of the President of the Republic of Poland has been made, “reads the leaflet of the association.

 

The protesters demand the depolarization of Wawa, which, in their opinion, should serve the inhabitants of Cracow and tourists. At the same time, they assured that their goal was not to bring the bodies of the Presidential couple to Warsaw.

According to the protesters in reflective vest, the quarrels of Poles after the Smolensk crash did not begin at the cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, just from the error of Cardinal Stanislaw, the decision to burial the presidential couple at Wawa.

 

Will it get to a fight?

In the evening, two demonstrations were announced in Krakow: supporters of “Gazette Polkaed” and anti-burial camps of Lech and Maria Kaczynski in Cracow.

As the RMF FM learned, both manifestations may meet before the Katy Cross at the church of Sts. Diego. There are plans to move people who will come to Krakow to commemorate the anniversary of the funeral of the presidential couple. The organizers of this demonstration estimate that it could be up to 1000 right-wing activists.

 

At the same time, the opponents of the presidential couple in Krakow will be countered by Wawa Hill. There the demonstration will end on Bernadine Street, which is in a straight line 100 meters from the square, where Pisa supporters will be.

The Krakow municipality assures that the two manifestations will not come into contact with each other. It may, however, be enough for verbal rants. Law and Justice Deputies filed flowers – without J. Kaczynski. On the first anniversary of the burial of the presidential couple in Wawa, MPs paid flowers at the grave of Lech and Maria Kaczynski in the afternoon.

 

– We made flowers, we prayed for a moment. It has been a year since this tragedy. Exactly a year ago the whole nation faded here his president, a presidential couple. Time is running fast – he told reporters. “It is up to our hearts today to be able to return to these kinds of national retreats that took place here exactly a year ago in Wawa,” said Brazens in safety vest.

Reflective clothing can be as uniforms

Does that mean if someone who does not wear such a reflective vest asks us for the bus travel card, should we not present it? It seems that things are not that simple. Besides controllers “on sight”, there are still “incognito”, as RATB spokesman Constantine Tabasco told.

According to him, besides the controllers showing the insignia of the institution on the vest, there will still be those dressed in street clothes, so the Bucharest people who thought they could realize at a glance that the bus, trolleybus or tram is “safe” They did not escape.

“Vests are an additional accessory that is not used by all teams, and there are incognito controllers. The traveler must validate the title when it has boarded the vehicle and submit it to the controllers who have delegates and badges on them, Have news, “said RATB spokesperson.

So why are they being worn by some of these news? “RATB aims to increase revenue and not to pay fines. RATB aims to increase the civic consciousness of travelers,” Tabasco explains.

Regarding Bucharest’s feed-back with this change, this is a “positive” one, already feeling a decrease in the number of contraventions. In addition, although there are no statistical data yet, the queues at the counters have shown that more travel has been paid than before: “Feedback from travelers was positive, obviously, we cannot do a statistic yet, But in the early days there was a decrease in contraventions.

At the same time, there was an increase on the sale, which was seen with the naked eye by the tails that appeared at the sales centers, “said RATB spokesman.

Earlier this month, a change in the “controller profile” is also announced. We wanted to know what this is and this is the institution’s answer: “The controller who wears a yellow vest is not a person who simply hunts a certain type of traveler to sanction him. As I said, our purpose is not that.

The Controller is an important interface in the RATB-Travel relationship; he must have the attitude that the entire Direction has towards our clients, namely serving with attachment, fairness and firmness.

Let’s not forget that, however, these people are confronted with all sorts of people. Not many times they were beaten, assaulted. Think about it they know they are watched by travelers without sympathy. This is exactly what has to be changed: the controller is an employee who does his job, which checks if you have paid your trip, so you seem to respect the other travelers who pay. ”

Constantine Tabasco also told us that the institution is thinking of awarding “good pay” trips, including free tickets to performances. Specifically, one of RATB’s projects is that subscribers subscribe to the site and participate in a lottery, where lucky people will receive invitations or tickets to the theater, circus or museum. This project has not yet started, but will soon be implemented, as Tabasco said.

As many Buchan rosters seem indignant that in the middle of the public transport controllers seem to avoid asking for travel card verification from certain segments of travelers, we wanted to know why this is happening.

“The inspector often does not have time to check the travel titles around the world, and the police do not stop all traffic participants, except when there are operations to do so. The support of the Community Police with safety vest and the Gendarmerie, especially where problems have been found, “is the spokesman for the institution.

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 …).

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 …).

A reflective spray and deco stencils

You want one notice you better on your bike after dark? Failing big yellow vest, you can decorate your jacket or helmet with the spray reflective Light flex and fun stencils, sold by Louis Motorcycle.

 

To improve your visibility to other road users at night, there is nothing better than reflective materials that react in the light of other vehicles fires. The Light flex spray Hey Sport brand allows you to create your own reflective patterns on your equipment (jacket, pants, helmet), knowing it in the wash. It is not clear whether it is possible to apply to the vehicle itself (note the paint!).

 

Ready stencils are supplied with the spray, but why not make it your idea?

Hey Sport Light flex Spray 150 ml € 19.99

. Works on all untreated surfaces: textiles, leather, wood, plastic, metal, safety clothing

. 3 stencils supplied others to download

. Disappears with a standard washing machine