Month: October 2017

The yellow safety vest soon extended to 2 wheels

As of January 1, 2016, the retro-reflective or high-visibility safety vest becomes mandatory for motorcycles and scooters. The yellow vest becomes mandatory for motor vehicles with 2 and 3 wheels, and 4 non-body wheels, as well as for motorists. The government has finally decided after having made the wind vane on the subject for years!

 

In fact, the wearing of the retro reflective safety vest was to be compulsory at the beginning of 2013 by all drivers or passengers of a motorcycle, of a cylinder capacity greater than 125 cm3 or of a vehicle of category L5e with a power greater than 15 kW. Repealed from its entry into force in favor of a simple recommendation to wear a vest, the Inter-ministerial Committee on Road Safety has decided to go backwards.

 

A decree and a decree have just extended the requirements for the possession and wearing of a high-visibility reflective vest by the drivers of these vehicles (1). The wearing of the vest was previously applicable to motorists, and will be extended to the drivers of a motor vehicle with 2 or 3 wheels (motorcycle, scooter …), or a motor quadricycle not bodied (for example a quad ) from 1 January 2016 as soon as they have to leave the broken down vehicle. They will have to dispose of them or storage of their vehicle (net, trunk …) and wear it when they get off their vehicle after an emergency stop, to improve their visibility, as for the motorists.

 

Compliance with this obligation, provided for in the Highway Code (2), may be controlled by the police and sanctioned in case:

Non-detention by a 1st class offense (11 Euros for the fixed fine),

Non-wearing of the high visibility vest following an emergency is stop by a violation of 4th class.

 

Sine educates motorists on the safety

Sine, the company specializing in the management of highways, launches a new campaign to educate drivers about the safety of its staff. Last month, a motorway worker without reflective vest died near Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais, after being hit by a car on the A1.

 

“You see me? Slow down!” a simple campaign slogan that calls for vigilance on highways. Sine’s agents are angry about the dangerous behavior of some motorists. “These are our customers, but it does not give them the right to roll over us. There is a lack of respect… We have only one life! When I come to work, it is to return I want to see my family again; I do not come to die at work, “says Sylvain CarMax, who works in the Janie center, near Satirize, in Murtha for 25 years.

 

Like most employees, he was shocked by the death of a colleague on March 14, near Arras. Those who call themselves men in yellow, because of their fluorescent safety vest, know that they are not immune to an accident. So they take precautions. For example, never work alone on the highway. “You have to be two to have four eyes, one of them is posing while the other is paying attention, so he is trying to warn his colleague, it takes four eyes on the highway, or even more, because is quite dangerous, “says Pascal Colza, team leader at Jenny’s center.

 

While discussing near the markup, which they have installed on a track, the employees of Sine perceive in the distance a dangerous behavior on the part of a motorist. “You see, the blue car approaching us, right in front of the truck, it doubled at the very last moment, when there was a forbidden sign to double 300 meters before. Braking the truck or the car and if the agents are behind, they are bumped, “pointed out Fabrics Jabber, head of the operating center of the Janie.

 

Increase in accidents involving motorway personnel

Non-compliance with signs, speed limits, mobile driving … The causes of accidents involving highway agents is numerous. According to Sine, there were 124 accidents affecting them all over France last year, compared to 101 in 2014. While the number of accidents has dropped a lot on motorways over the past ten years, those involving motorway staff are continuing to increase. A new awareness campaign is therefore more necessary than ever for the road safety. It started in early April and should continue until June.

The road test for road safety

 

“Driving a motorcycle at speed, everyone knows how to do it”, welcomes Michel, the “motorcycle gentleman” of the Pas-de-Calais prefecture. One way to make us understand that, although we are on the emblematic circuit of Croix-en-Terni, he is more interested in the ease of bikers on their gear. That’s how twenty-two bikers stumbled on a road test, answered forty questions about road safety and got on their bike for a test of maneuverability.

 

“Behind a heavy weight, there are fifty invisible positions for the driver.”

These amateur riders have all won their qualification at one of the seventeen events organized this year through the department with insurer MACIF. The winner of this Teresina final (the third of the name) won a ticket for the national trophy at the motorcycle police school. But beyond any competition, the goal of the prefecture is clear: continue to raise the awareness of the bikers, be more careful even they wear the reflective vest, particularly exposed on the roads in case of accident.

 

The participants were thus entitled to demonstrations of airbag safety vest, still too little used. They were also able to board a school truck on loan from Bray-la-Bossier Public Works High School. “Behind the heavy weight, there are fifty invisible positions for the driver, explains Michel Lagash. We want to make bikers aware of these blind spots. And the danger they represent in case of irregular overtaking.

 

The young elected ones invite you to “Dare the Yellow”

The Municipal Youth Council of Challis has chosen to focus on humor for its road safety campaign. And to encourage cyclists to wear a yellow safety vest, they made an unusual video!

 

The slogan could appear in a sketch of the Knights of File, but it is actually out of the imagination of the elected Municipal Council of Youth in the city of Challis. As part of their work on road safety, they decided to conduct a prevention campaign on the risks associated with bicycle travel. Starting from the observation that the wearing of the yellow vest is often considered “nerdy”, they decided to play the card of humor, by making a video around a message as simple as effective: the yellow vest, it is in fashion! After having built their screenplay, they shot their clip in one day, calling on Milo, a hollandaise teenager passionate about theater. And the result is, to say the least, striking…

 

The campaign also comes in the form of posters, on which we find sporting hollandaise: the motocross rider Thierry Bathes, the basketball player Antoine Audit, or the professional cyclist Arnold Jenison who has always dreamed of wearing … the yellow jersey!

“Well seen together” on Bleu Pays

Every year, for cyclists and pedestrians, the change in the winter time is synonymous with an increase in accidents related to the decrease in brightness, especially without any reflective accessories. The France Bleu network launches the operation “Bien vu ensemble”.

 

The operation “Well seen together” is to find this Friday, October 27 from 9am in “Life in Blue” with the general agents of insurance. All day with France Bleu Pays de Savoy, listeners will win their safety kits. This safety kit includes a yellow safety vest with reflective stripes, a yellow backpack with reflective stripes, a reflective bracelet and adhesives to stick on bicycle frames.

 

This operation takes as an anchor, the transition to winter time, synonymous with a significant increase in the number of victims of traffic accidents and particularly among the most vulnerable, pedestrians and cyclists.

 

Indeed, the night falling an hour earlier, pedestrians and cyclists are less visible because of this lack of brightness without reflective vest.

 

To work on the bike with wear safety vest

“I’m not an exotic,” Erich defends war. And in fact, whoever drives the bike to work today, no longer has to ask the question: Does not the car have a car? The teacher has already saddled almost 20 years ago.

 

Since this time, the 60-year-old has been riding a bicycle between his home and his workplace with wear a reflective vest. 25 kilometers, 25 kilometers, every school day, both summer and winter. Departure time in the morning: 6:15 am “In the winter it is not so tingling,” war warns, which changes in snow then on a mountain bike with spikes. And conceded, at 20 degrees minus, the health prevails at war and the wheel remains in the garage. On the extreme days of extreme weather he travels to Steinem by car and from there by bike in the Benz Valley. Sometimes one must overcome oneself, says Krieg. But for this, unforgettable moments compensated. Sunsets, morning moods, cloud images: From the edge of the Steiner and from the heights, Krieg has already taken photos with his camera, which not only astonished the fellow circle. “I arrive with normal pulse and breath.” On the way back, the climb to Steinem awaits. “Eight to ten minutes” war overlaps the duration of the climb.

 

The fact that the pedagogue, who has been teaching for 32 years, does not have to struggle to get uphill, is due to the fact that war is not only driving his workplace by the wheel. The road bike is also his sports safety equipment and the route training for the really challenging mountain marathons. Several times war went the Totaled over four passes and 5500 heights, the Marathon dales Dolomites and several times also with start. A route leads across the Stevie Pass. “It is very challenging” is the official information of the organizer. Erich Krieg can swarm about how the “swings” of over 20 sweeps “upwards.” Pride, and he confesses, is war, that he has now driven 20 times the Alb extreme cycling marathon.

 

War has now come a little shorter; the number of kilometers traveled by bicycle has fallen from 16,000 to 12,000 kilometers per year. The enthusiasm for cycling, the intensive contact with nature, and the close-up experience of all seasons, have not let up. Cycling was not the first choice. It was football. When, in 1985, a doctor drew a sideline, because the knee had suffered damage, his recommendation for alternative sports went on swimming or cycling. War chose the wheel.

 

Ten years later, the club of cycling friends Bartholomew, whose chairman he is to this day, has raised the war. The 14 founding members have now become 140. “Cycling is booming.” Once upon a time, war on the drive to school was started by a dog in the mist. Nothing happens. Drivers and animals were equally surprised. In order to be more visible, war is only possible with an alert yellow safety vest and, of course, with a helmet. “If someone goes without, I could get sick.” The warriors also know that the war is sustained by riding helmets, if they want to swing on the wheel after class.

 

“I am already an outdoor person” admits war. In winter, you can go cross-country skiing, and the cross-country ski runs can be reached by bike. The great effect of sport is indisputable to war. For 30 years he had not missed a day at school. And there was never a delay with the bike. The woman is riding along, “where it is beautiful,” war describes the goals for family excursions. Whether the fun of the grandchildren Ida and Henri When war finds three to four more wheel tracks in the morning on the way t in the snow, he knows: “I am in good company.”

Police are urgently seeking school helpers with safety vest

As a rule, young school pupils and adult school walkers are responsible for ensuring school safety. This service can still be maintained, because not enough voluntary helpers report. In the Anton, police superintendent Günter Thales now appealed to the parents of the first years to get involved.

 

“All parents want their children to come to school, but time does not come”, headmistress Lamer brings the problem to the point. In the autumn, 70 children are trained in the Anton. Many of the girls and boys go to school every day, some of them having to cross the main road or other busy streets. There are particularly vulnerable places where schoolchildren are ready to help children safely cross the street. At the moment, Günter, with the Police together with Michaela Rosenthal, responsible for the school safety, can now employ only 21 adult helpers alongside the student guides. “This is the minimum,” says Taller.

 

The helpers ensure a transition and the transition in the middle of the city. Especially there in the morning always very many students on the road, at the same time also the traffic is the densest, because a lot of school buses pass the place. In the absence of enough adult helpers, Thales Am also has to use student solders. This is not optimal. Therefore, the police officer hopes that today, on the day of the registration of the future first years, he will find a few new voluntary school helpers. It is important that the young parents themselves behave as exemplary on the road. “If the parents do not make it clear, the children cannot really learn it.” Above all a situation is a thorn in his eye: “Often parents keep their car in front of the school directly in the absolute ban, but this is forbidden.” Because the children are to hurry, dangerous situations quickly come.

 

However, the goal is to ensure that the children are not driven, but run to school. Thus he is on the topic of school path helpers. He appealed to the parents in the Aula to volunteer for this service. “The half an hour a week early between 7.30 and 8 o’clock,” he says, the more helpers are involved, the less often the mission is, the helper is equipped with a safety vest and a trowel, as well as the municipal liability insurance, and accident insurance, if anything happens, Thales continues.

 

The 56-year-old police officer is supported by Catharina Schulz. “It is very important to me,” says the mother of two children, who has been active as a school chaplain for years, hoping that new help will be found, but she will continue to do so even though her youngest son leaves the primary school. But some of the other long-term school helpers would gladly give the honorary office again, she knows.

 

Sabine Popp is today with her son Maximilian in the elementary school, which he will visit from September. “The school helpers are a great thing,” she says, and the young mother, the teacher, would report to herself, “but only if it is compatible with my duty schedule,” she said. For many parents, professional activity seems to be the problem of why they do not commit themselves voluntarily. Also Holder Kessler, father of Nina, says: “This is, of course, a good thing, but I cannot help because I work from five o’clock in the morning.” Nevertheless, Günter Thales does not give up the hope: he publishes lists in the Aula in which helpers can register. Six volunteers in reflective vest are taking part after the infusion, and five want to consider the mission. With this result, the police superintendent is quite satisfied.

 

TCS distributes free safety vest for the little ones

For children on the pedestrian strip: Always keep it all the time.

The TCS is committed to the safety of school children: this year, the largest Swiss mobility club has distributed 80,000 safety reflective vests free of charge to all first-year children of the country. Together with the police, the TCS will again conduct sensitization campaigns for vehicle drivers. In addition, the new brochure and microfiber cleaning cloths with the logo of the “Halt veers knelt” campaign are handed out.

 

Start of school: School holidays are over in many places

School holidays have been going on for a few days, and now thousands of children are returning to school. Some of them are first graders, but all of them have to be well taken care of at school, in order to return home accident-free to school.

 

TCS distributes 80,000 safety vests free of charge. As announced at the Geneva Motor Show in the presence of German President Uele Maurer, the TCS is giving this year a safety vest for schoolchildren in Switzerland. The safety vests are printed with the silhouette of the TCS Student Loudspeaker of the 2012 “Halt veer’s bang” campaign. The high-quality vests have a hood and are visible from a distance thanks to reflective light bands. As a protective element for primary school pupils, the West complements the TCS Troikas, which are handed over every year to kindergarten teachers.

 

For children: Stop the vehicle completely

The TCS has been committed for years to reducing accidents on the roads and increasing safety on the way to school. Within the framework of the 2012 campaign successfully launched together with the police, the TCS is continuing the efforts to raise awareness among the road users in 2013. The campaign draws the car’s attention to the presence of the children and encourages them not only to brake as soon as children want to cross the road, but to stop the vehicle completely.

 

For greater traffic safety

At the beginning of the school, bands and posters will once again be shown around the country with the TCS student club as well as the slogan. In addition, the corresponding TV spot is broadcast again, in which a world is a girl on the way to school. The spot was awarded by the Swiss Art Directors Club and in June 2013 by the European Art Directors Club in the “Public Service & Charity” category.

 

 

The police employ asylum seekers in safety vest as pupils

A retired policeman formed twelve men and women with safety clothing who will work at the Escher from the beginning of school.

 

Asylum seekers are being employed in the student service from Bad Asch. Twelve refugees, including three women, completed an intensive training course, which was conducted in cooperation with the city police in reflective vest and the retired policeman Reinhardt Held. The Larder has already initiated such a project in several municipalities in the district.

 

“All efforts in the last years to find honorary officials for this task have failed,” says SP mayor Hanes Heidi. The asylum seekers are looking forward to the opportunity to work. Their area of use includes dangerous roads in the vicinity. They have an official identity card and are equipped with a safety vest and safety bar. The pilots have the right to inform and inform passengers of their duties.

 

“The asylum seekers can prove this way that they want to integrate into our country,” says SP-social town councilor Ines Schiller. “There are only positive feedbacks in those communities where they are already active in student rescue.”

 

With Uele Maurer safely across the street

Together with Federal President Uele Maurer, the TCS distributed the first of 50,000 Play-mob figures reflective products from the film “Halt vow’s ballet” at the Geneva Motor Show. The figure was developed jointly, the TCS and Jung von Matt.

 

Now it has been included in the official Play-mob range under product number 6096. In addition to the small males, which can be purchased exclusively in the branches of the TCS sections, more than 20 life-size figures were also produced for exhibition purposes. In addition, all 80,000 first-graders in Switzerland will be presented with a Play-mob student safety vest at the beginning of the school year. Uele Maurer has already drawn on one of the printed reflective vests at the automobile salon.

 

Responsible for Touring Club Switzerland: Jean-Marc (Head of Touring Club Switzerland), Helmut (Campaign Manager Touring Club Switzerland). Responsible for the work of Jung von Matt / Lima: Alexander Jaggy (Executive Creative Director), Cyril Wiz (text), David (Art Direction), Alexander Molten (graphic), Matthias Adolf, Tanya Megan (consulting), Roland Thiemann, Philipp Buhler Public Relations / Social Media).