Month: June 2018

Police officers want to order reflective vests

While the number of dead drivers is falling rapidly, pedestrians are getting more and more. In November, they accounted for more than a third of the victims of accidents. Police officers want the pedestrian rules to be tightened – perhaps to wear reflective clothing. What other changes can be expected on the roads?

Taking a blue coat and going out in the dark over the road to the next village can be likened to a suicide attempt. According to the BESIP study, the driver of a moving car sees you in such a garbage when it is 18 meters behind you. She has no chance to react. At eighty-kilometer speed, it needs a minimum distance of at least two times.

While the number of dead drivers in the Czech Republic has fallen sharply in recent years, there are more and more victims among pedestrians. Every fifth death on the road is a pedestrian. Nearly two-thirds of them die outside the village.

November’s statistics are even scarier. Of the total number of 82 deaths in traffic accidents, there were 33 pedestrians. “This number is one of the last reasons why we will require the introduction of mandatory reflective elements for pedestrians next year, at least outside the village,” said Leo Trail, head of the traffic police.

In order for the driver to be able to react in the dark in the black, blue or even red dress in time, he would only have to go for forty. On the other hand, with reflective tapes on the clothes, one can see on the road at 200 meters.

Policemen would like to have the obligation to wear reflective vests or elements in the amendment to the Road Act.

BESIP: “Do we see?”

BESIP sends a clear signal: “Be Aware!” In the fourth year of Signal festival, he tried to highlight the importance of using reflective vests and to show a new pedestrian visible trend. On the Fruit Market in Prague, human beings literally lit for four days…

BESIP, with the support of Europe’s “Transport 1” 2, has prepared an exhibition on the Fruit Market in Prague, based on reflexive elements, from their use to clothing to more and more popular reflective tapes. An attractive part of the exposition and some look into the future, was the use of active light on clothing.

Being a festival of light, BESIP also showed the future of pedestrian visibility. He contacted the Technical University in Liberec, where he patented the unique use of nanotechnology to illuminate various items, including clothing. While others lit up a variety of objects, people and dummies lit up in BESIP’s presentation.

As of February 20 this year, an amendment to the law, which clearly sets out pedestrians outside the municipality, is obliged to wear reflective elements that are visible to all other road users, i.e. front, back, and side. In this sophisticated period, it should be remembered that the reduced visibility is not only the time from sunset to its exodus but also fog, heavy rain or snowfall, so reflective elements are mandatory under these conditions even at the time of day.

Above all, reflective elements have saved many lives

Foreign experience has shown that reflective elements can reduce the pedestrian’s participation in a fatal accident by up to ten times, in poor visibility. In other words, 10% of pedestrians would have the chance to survive, and for cyclists, this percentage is even higher – up to 30% of riders on bicycles could live if they were sufficiently visible. That is why it is very important for pedestrians and cyclists to use reflective elements that will clearly increase road safety.

That such elements have their merits, they know, for example, in Estonia. While there were 47 pedestrians killed in 1999, there are only seven in 2010! The fact that the obligation to wear reflective materials in reduced visibility has been enforced in this country has certainly contributed to this. Since 2011, they have even been obliged to wear reflective elements in Estonia even when moving under reduced visibility in the city. However, Estonia is not the only one in Europe. For example, pedestrians in the Scandinavian countries, in Spain, or with our neighbors in Slovakia have this obligation.

The tape does not help you

The best for your safety would be if the reflective elements were copying your front and back outline. But who would want to go out of the pub or evening out in a reflective vest…

“We place the reflective tape in the direction of the road, the right side of the body, on the ankle or on the wrist,” explains Martin Farad.

However, if only one tape is available, it is better to place it on your ankle. “The light of the car shine from the bottom and illuminate the tape on the ankle before the wrist,” notes the head of the BESIP. If you have a reflex tape attached to your wrist, be careful not to cover it with your sleeve.

If you feel as good as a reflective tape like a lighted mobile phone, remember that not only do you fail to comply with the statutory duty, but you risk the phone will run out and the driver will not see you.

Conversely, if you would like to underline the effect of reflection, you can shine with fluorescent colors in the shade or rain. It does not provide the reflection of the light, but it will prolong the distance the driver sees you.

Every extra meter decides

It would seem like a cumbersome recalculation of every inch. It is a necessary malignancy. Every additional meter available to the driver to brake or safely avoiding is calculated on the unlit road.

So, know that a pedestrian with visible reflective safety vests will record the driver at a distance of 200 meters. At 65 kilometers per hour, he has enough time to figure out the potential danger, decides what to do, maneuver, and comfortably completes.

In dark clothing, the distance you see on the side is shrunk to just 18 meters. At the same speed, the car is blinking in one second. “The driver has virtually no chance to react to the pedestrian and avoid him safely,” emphasizes Martin Farrar.

And we still talk about speed that only a few people get outside the village. At a speed of 90 kilometers per hour, a chauffeur needs a safe walking distance of at least 90 meters, and even in the white cloth that is the best reflex after that, you can only see it at a distance of 55 meters.

Do you know retro reflection?

Unfortunately, in the publication, the most important thing is to define what “retro reflective materials” are and what they should look like. “For example, we have fluorescent materials that increase visibility in daylight and at dusk, but they lose their function in the dark”, explain the pitfalls of a simplified search for Bezique Chief Martin Farrar. In addition, we have found that not every orange or light green working vest is wearing real retro reflective tapes – those that reflect light at night and draw attention to the character in the dark!

Although the transport legislation suggests that the term “retro reflective” refers to the emergency stop of a vehicle outside the village or the permissible pedestrian signs, the executive decree shows examples of orange “roadside” assemblies and reflective vests with the inscription “School”, which in both cases, it is difficult to dress the participants.

In addition, this link is missing in the passage about their new designation. Members have already been caught up during the vote. “Retro reflective materials – it’s a very difficult word and I admit I’m a little confused. It is the Latin word of origin. The reflector means bending, turning, returning. How do I translate retro reflex, I do not know. I probably turn, bend back, back. Or I turn, bend back. I wonder why this term was born. “said Daniel Corte, a deputy, and linguist from TOP 09. For the sake of order: a term that has been spelled out for years is commonly used for the principle of the retro reflection of light…

Hurricanes are threatened with fines: without reflective elements at night

A twenty-year-old young man, who was headed for the road from Becalm to Led nice, was completely naked. He now faces a fine in administrative proceedings. He was not wearing reflective vests.

A man walking along the edge of the unlit road was discovered by the Becalm policemen on one of the past days to two hours after midnight.

“Why does he go naked on the road,” the young man explained, warming him and planning a night bath. As he was warmed up not only by walking and hot nights but also by more than two profiles of alcohol, the city policemen bathed him in this state. “the spokesperson of Becalm policemen Novak said.

The man carried his reflective clothing in his bag, so he then dressed and went under the supervision of the police officers to the way leading to his home. But the whole thing was not over for him.

“Since the nakedness in the dark was invisible by the danger of road traffic and the absence of reflective materials have sinned against the pedestrian obligations stated in the Road Act. His administrative offense will be dealt with by the administrative body,” concluded Novak.

Forget the reflective elements, the driver cannot see them

Compared to last year, twice as many pedestrians died in traffic accidents this January. Tragic is also February. The last such an accident was the crash on the national road near Pesky Brood, where the married couple died. The accident happened at night, and no pedestrian had any reflective elements or reflective vests.

Reflective materials have been mandatory for two years when walking outside the village, but this year the effect of this rule is not very noticeable. While in 2015 and 2016, when reflective materials were not mandatory (mandatory from 20 February 2016), eleven pedestrians died in January, last year the number of casualties dropped to eight. This year, however, it brought a tragic figure: Fourteen pedestrians died in traffic accidents.

There were also considerably more crashes with pedestrian vehicles that did not end with death. Police statistics are 357, which is 65 (22 percent) more than last January.

The truth is that in January the total number of accidents and also death on the roads increased significantly when 40 people died compared to last year’s 30th. It was the most tragic January since 2014, but the number of pedestrians killed contributed significantly to the overall increase. If the total number of victims increased by ten, between the pedestrians the victim was six. In addition, the black series continues in February.

Worst January in six years

Total statistics of January accidents show worsening not only compared to 2017 but also many previous ones, no pedestrian had any reflective elements or reflective safety vests. The same number of people as this year (40) died in accidents in 2014, the higher the number of death last January in 2012 (46). However, we cannot forget that this year’s weather was considerably more benign than last year or before last year, when the snow had been snowing for quite a while.

New store in LIEDEKERKE

Lieder kernel has a new store at Steppe Reclaimed, located at Stations strata 140. Besides lettering & full-color prints, you can also come to Steppe Reclaimed for work and safety clothing for construction workers, gadgets, catering, gardeners, handymen… From work trousers and helmets through dust masks to signal to clothe.

Steppe Reclaimed is your partner for the design, production, and installation of all your advertising panels and lettering. They use the latest technologies and high-quality reflective materials: construction boards, relief letters, stickers, logo design, sandblast effect, promotional textiles, signage, columns, advertising panels, banners, stickers, signage, flags and banners, full-color prints, vehicle lettering, window decoration, decors, promote textiles and much more.

Steppe Reclaimed makes the best advertising and promotional carriers(even can use reflective heat transfer vinyl) for you to bring your product to the attention or inform your customers about your company or project. Steppe Reclaimed takes into account the image that is desired for your organization. Let yourself be inspired and make a no-nonsense visit to Steppe Reclaimed at Stations strata 140 in Lieder kernel. You can be advised by enthusiastic and competent employees who, together with you, can find the best solution for your company.

Minister Schultz van Hagen wears ‘safety jacket’

Why should not you look stylish in the construction industry as a woman? This is what traffic minister Schultz van Hagen must have thought. She did not wear a shapeless, reflective jacket on a working visit, but a ‘women’s reflective jacket‘: an orange, reflective blazer.

Rug invented the jacket because she was bothered by the lack of female clothing in the construction industry. Because a normal road worker’s coat, that really does not stand. “Then I would wear a jacket like that in size S and it would still be too big, it just did not look like a skirt,” says rug to RTL Niue’s. That’s why she asked for feminine clothing. “Then I was offered a pink overall and helmet, but I do not like that.” And there was no other thing.

That’s why she came up with the ‘cute ladies’ safety jacket’. Rug: “This is a symbol of” you can also be a woman in the construction industry. “And then you do not have to hoist yourself in a garbage bag.” The jacket is also fitted. “We women have a waist,” says rug. “At least let’s see them, and that waste is often hard to find for men in the construction industry!”

Rug gets a lot of enthusiastic reactions and gives the coat especially to women she meets in the construction sector, but also to politicians. In December, she gave him, together with Bookend Nederland-chairman Maxim, as a gift to traffic minister Schultz van Hagen. She has the coat in her car and carries him on working visits, such as yesterday.

The jackets with reflective fabric are for sale at Vermin from Nijmegen and cost 89 Euros each, excluding VAT. They are really only meant for companies, but, let the company know, if a private person comes along and wants to have the coat, that is not a problem.

Rug sees several possibilities for her safety clothing, in addition, to use in construction. “You can wear it on King’s Day or if the Dutch national team plays, but also for ready over’s it’s much better than the big standard safety jackets.”

A great move to a small village. Reflective School

The autumn-winter period is the time when the safety of pedestrians increases. These people often move on unlit roads, where there are not always placed for this group of traffic participants. Children who are often unconscious of danger are bound to be in danger, trusting an adult driver.

From September 2014, the entry into force of the amended Road Traffic Act came into force, according to which it is the duty of every pedestrian to have reflective clothing, an element of clothing that will clearly mark its presence on the road after dusk and outside built-up areas.

The Ministry of National Education recently, as one of its priorities, has designated the safety of children on many levels. One of them is road safety. In accomplishing this goal, the Primary School in Probe, represented by the Director Renate together with local authorities, entrepreneurs and parents, initiated a number of events, joining the nationwide educational and preventive campaign under the slogan “Reflective School”. This action is cyclical and lasts for three years in a row. Interest is growing from year to year, and the power of transmission is gaining momentum.

The “Reflective School” educates from September to the end of October, noting that the pedestrian, which moves on a dark road without reflections, is practically invisible. The driver is able to notice such a person only from a distance of 20-30 meters. However, if the pedestrian has reflective materials, the driver can already see it at more than 150 m. Such a reflective element, improving the pedestrian’s visibility, often saves lives.

As part of the action, acting to improve security in the municipality of Algeria, Primary School in Probe Begot organized a number of events this year, which, through play, educated both the youngest and adults. In Probe begot, this is a particularly important issue to move because of the busy and dangerous road no. 780 running through the village. Children and teachers to organize a nightly march along this road in reflective vests, wanting to draw attention to the drivers. In addition, vest cycling tours and hiking, tours are organized. It is a kind of manifesto and warning of children who shout – “See us – release!”.

Wear reflections, it’s not embarrassing

3,5 thousand reflective vests bought by the Regional Road Traffic Center in Opole will soon be delivered to the inhabitants of the Opole region.

The action of giving them started. The police handed them over to passers-by and cyclists in Wadena, Nyssa, Opole and Strzelecki Poolside. – On the days will be also distributed in the other points – says the aspirant Karol Brandies from the press office of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Opole. Thanks to them, unprotected participants will be visible on the road. – Fast falling dark, fog and slippery surface, are the conditions that make cyclists and pedestrians exposed more than usual to danger – says the sub-inspector Pieter Bob from the traffic department of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Opole.

The driver sees a pedestrian at night who is not wearing reflective clothing from a distance of about 30-40 meters. This is often too little to react in time. When the pedestrian is wearing reflections, he may notice such a man even from 150 meters.

– This gives the driver a chance to slow down and safely bypass the pedestrian or cyclist – adds Pieter Bob. In order to fulfill his role, the reflective tapes should be placed on clothing, at the height of the knees, hands, around the center of the chest or back. – Carrying them is nothing shameful – says Charles Brandies.