The dark season starts and it brings especially cloudy weather and poor visibility with it. Children are among the weakest road users in road traffic. They are particularly vulnerable if they are not sufficiently “visible” to other road users.
In order to be better seen in rain, fog or dusk, children should wear bright and contrasting clothing. Trade offers – quite practically – even jackets with reflective stripes. For jackets or vests, without incorporating reflectors, reflective heat transfer vinyl can be ironed on later for little money.
Also, a good choice is reflective tapes that can be worn around the wrists and ankles and are quickly put on when needed and find a jacket pocket.
For children who ride their bikes, there are even bicycle helmets that light up. The control of lights and reflectors on the bike, which are frequently used in the dark season, should not be forgotten. Because: Especially with clip-on light after a long summer, in which the lights were not needed, suddenly the battery is empty.
School backpacks also have reflective areas. But if these are “pasted” with stickers, they do not serve road safety.
The classic “blinkers”, attached to a jacket or bag, are often lost. This is what Ulrike Margrave. Rector of the Western House Primary School has stated: “They are tearing away quickly.”
That’s why for the first graders of the school for some years in bright yellow vests from the ADAC hooded. Not only are they pretty glaring and well visible a few meters away from other road users. They also have reflective stripes and look pretty fragrant. The I-males from the Western house also find that. “The West is cool,” the students have stated. Class teacher Cornelia Manley has distributed the luminous vest a few days ago in her class. Almost all of the 20 children have been wearing the reflective vest since then. With traffic safety training at the elementary school, they become the right little traffic detectives. And that’s the way it should be in the best case.