Revolution on the roads! Today, at midnight, new pedestrian duty has begun, and now they have to wear safety vests at night and in bad visibility to see them well, otherwise, they can face a fine of up to two and a half thousand crowns. But as we found out tonight, pedestrians hardly know about it, and it does not solve it.
New people do not know about the new regulation, or they have to wear reflective elements with reflective materials, simple and simply do not solve. People who return home at night along the road are not at all visible. Police officers can now give the unlit pedestrians a fine of up to two thousand dollars, and in the administrative proceedings, they are likely to be fined by another 500 crowns higher.
For example, some publishers are already thinking about taking their reflective tapes or vests for their regulars, and they will send them on their night returns home.
Police officers across the country in the coming days and weeks are planning a special night action focused on pedestrian controls. In one breath, however, they promise to be a little more benevolent about the fines for the transgressions.
Perhaps the measures already introduced in Slovakia and the number of killed pedestrians has dropped by almost half in five years. In the last three years, more than five hundred pedestrians died in the Czech Republic, more than three hundred in the night.