Author: vivianq

Banda and security

Among the concerns of the holiday committee, the safety of people is an important part of the events it organizes. Festivals of this kind which concentrates a large number of young people are conducive to incidents or accidents, sometimes serious ones, for which one will inevitably seek the responsibilities of each one. The organizer is on the front line and must comply with very strict safety regulations. And it is also important to wear reflective vests at night.

Thus, during the Night of the Banda, we saw people from the Red Cross rotatable to their shoulder belt which sewn-on reflective fabric. They were armed with radios, to patrol in pairs. When declaring the event, the committee wanted a backup device. Departmental Red Cross had assessed the need and a convention had been passed to monitor the entire site. Antony Chapala, territorial director of emergency and first aid, was in charge of operations and led his teams. Same and the firemen were ready for any eventuality. Fortunately, using reflective materials in our life no accident to lament!

Ideal for summer and winter: white roads

White roads not only do well on Christmas cards. They are also very good for the environment, which plays an important role as the reflective material does. They ensure that it is a lot less warm in the city.

There are already a number of reflective roads in North Holland, another week this week. They also try it out in Amsterdam, and since this spring you can also see them in, yes, Los Angeles. There they painted a special coating over the roads, making them white. It saved a whopping ten degrees. Dark colors absorb light, which makes it warmer. White actually fires the heat. You also notice this when wearing a white or black t-shirt in the summer.

Piet is an engineer and designs highways. He is responsible for the white roads in the Netherlands. Our summers are getting warmer because of climate change. Temperatures can rise considerably in cities in particular, because the heat is difficult to remove because of the buildings. Annoying side-effect is that more dangerous substances are being emitted by cars.

But the new roads have even more advantages. It is also safer in the winter. Just think: if you ride in the dark, you are much better visible on a white road than on gray asphalt. This means that street lighting has to be less fierce, and that also saves energy.

Reflective roads in the Netherlands look less spectacular at first glance than in Los Angeles. This is because Piet prefers not to use the coating. According to him, it wears much faster. He therefore mixes the asphalt with very fine gravel. It is called stone chips. If a lot of cars drive over it, it will wear out and the white will slowly appear. Except for using white roads, people wearing reflective vests or reflective tapes can also keep safety a night.

Reflectors to ensure passive safety

In the dark season, being a cyclist is not only important to see but also to be seen. In addition to the active illumination by the headlamp and rear light reflectors increase passive safety by wearing reflective vests at night.

It is a joke of history that still mandatory pedal reflectors were prescribed in 1937, inter alia, to the National Socialists money into the coffers. Who manufactured and sold them, had to pay royalties to Anton Loeb GmbH – major of a company of the SS, for the quite meaningful innovation turned out to be the surprisingly lucrative business.

Reflector also on battery lighting duty

Regardless of this inglorious past, reflective materials undeniably increase the visibility and thus the safety of cyclists. In addition to pedal reflectors, which, as in the Moto “Reflex Pedal” (55 Euros) – although according to the motto “better than nothing” not completely compliant – are also interpreted in a modern way, a laterally radiating passive lighting on the wheels is prescribed by the SUVs, as well like front and rear reflectors; The omission of the Dynamo obligation has not changed that!

Those who find it very different when thinking of clamping objects between their spokes man fortunately and quite legally resort to an alternative to the popularly known as “cat’s eyes” spoke reflectors: “We have virtually all touring tires fitted with reflective tapes as standard or in the entry area optional available “notes Doris Kbyte van Schwab. Also in the sports arena and with spike tires, there are corresponding models.

Two birds with one stone in a similar way strike headlights and taillights with integrated reflectors, which are even offered in the battery-powered variants. While only one reflector is needed in the front, the SUVs requires a passive second light source at the rear next to a large reflector with Z-mark.

Children are seen even in the dark

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.

The reflective tape is not a reflective tape

Duty to have reflective elements of clothing is in the law since this February. There are still many tragic accidents with “invisible” pedestrians. Most pedestrians did not have any reflective elements. But as BESIP pointed out, some reflective tapes that pedestrians can take do not work as well as they should.

Crossing the reflective ribbon is one of the ways to meet the requirements newly imposed by the Road Act on pedestrians who go in low visibility outside of the village. However, according to the BESIP Department of the Ministry of Transport, not all tapes are the same.

Correctly, they should be seen at 200 meters. “There are also cases where the material works only at a distance of 60 to 70 meters,” said Martin Farrar, director of BESIP. How well the reflex tape should be seen should be a leaflet. Marking directly on the tape. The elements are complying with the European standard EN 13356 are well visible.

In addition to the visibility of the tape itself, the role and location of the tape itself are also played. The look may seem best placed on the sleeve. But it is not so from a safety point of view. The car’s reflectors shine to the ground, so they can see their legs first. The reflective belt on the leg is, therefore, the most effective solution that really guarantees the visibility of the pedestrian up to 200 meters.

Reflective strips this year, police and BESIP employees handed over 300 thousand. Yet many pedestrians still do not use it. For example, during a traffic safety action that took place last week in Suit nod Labem, police officers checked 193 pedestrians, 111 of whom were “invisible”.

For the time being, police officers are usually able to do so. But according to the law, people who do not use reflective vests when they go off the road outside the village under reduced visibility, up to a fine of two thousand dollars.

Safe to school: ADAC safety vests for students

22 first graders of the Vosges school in Karlsruhe received on Wednesday not only bright yellow safety vests but also tips on the correct behavior in road traffic by ADAC traffic expert Christophe.

In luggage had a glowing safety vest for each student. While a dark-clad pedestrian can only be recognized by a car driver from a distance of around 25 meters in poor visibility, the visibility in light-colored clothing is already improving to 40 meters, the traffic expert explained to the students. However, anyone who wears reflective clothing is easily noticeable even at a distance of around 150 meters.

Introduce students to road traffic as early as possible

In the dark school, the corridor was tried, how well you can see the reflective safety vest when it is detected by a ray of light. “The safety vests help us in our traffic education work and we try to familiarize students with road traffic as early as possible,” explained Deputy Headmistress of the Vosges School Heike Bohr.

In order to further improve the traffic safety of school children, parents should practice the way to school with their offspring. The ADAC recommends. However, municipalities are also required to create the conditions for a safe way to school, and not least the motorists. You should always keep a close eye on children at the edge of the road and drive extra cautiously near schools, the ADAC says.

At night, in the rain and winter

The ideal cycling season does not last for a whole year. In autumn the days are shorter, it cools and rain. Snow falls in the winter. However, the Nordic proverb says: There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.

The absolute basis is to have a wheel equipped with appropriate reflectors (white on the front, red at the back, orange on the string and yellow on the pedals). Replace reflectors in the string with the reflective tape on the casing, reflectors at the front and at the back with reflective stickers.

In town, you do not usually need a headlight. The streets are illuminated. But the blinkers are necessary. The front flasher is more important than the rear. For the driver’s rear is usually shining “in the mirror” and therefore reveals you even when you are light passive in the back. In front of you, cars come “from the side” and the best reflectors will not help you. Almost the same job as the rear blinker makes the reflex tape on the left calf.

In urban traffic, I can shine or flicker in the dark. Cars were previously required to shine “in low visibility,” which is exactly the condition that you should also shine on. In utter darkness, you are visibly visible with reflective materials, but in the dark, the reflectors are merging and you have to shine actively. Lighting sets with a sensor can be started automatically.

Reflective vest, flashing reflective ribbons and other massive light equipment over and above normal lighting will ensure you will be seen not only by overtaking drivers but also by pilots of aircraft landing at Ursine Airport. Consider whether it is worthwhile to shift this limit to how much light the drivers consider normal. The vest and the more powerful light fit on high-speed roads, long-distance stretches, or when “shit-shit” falls at the end of November. On the other hand, “raising” the driver with a dazzling lamp and a black coat is also not a good idea.

For a regular ride in the dark, it is worthwhile to have a deposit in addition to the “main” lighting.  the battery at least a spare battery, to the dynamically-driven light an emergency small flicker in the event of a malfunction.

Do not say that in the mountain of flashing scrap you will not find at least one that you can take with you… A left fuse on the seat post, a color changing light, a supermarket blinker, a low-beam headlamp bought there.

When you get into a situation where you need to drive without lights, you have to go slower along the secondary streets and give up the idea that you have priority at any crossing, even if traffic signs are hundreds of times the opposite. And your next trip has to lead to a cycle shop.

The police to distribute reflective tapes

Hradec Karloff, – Since the past weekend, pedestrians outside the village have a duty to wear reflective vests.

The Russian roulette of “invisible” pedestrians wandering the unlit sections between the villages has new rules, since the last weekend is the amendment to the Road Act which imposes an obligation to wear reflective elements outside the village, and it mainly takes care of drivers who come back home on the roads between Hradec and High and Vestry or Virago.

“Pedestrians have a duty to wear a reflective safety vest if they are moving outside the village on the side or edge of the road in a place that is not illuminated by public lighting,” says the Ministry of Transport’s press release, with a sigh that: “In the event of a breach of this duty, ranging from zero to two thousand block, from 1,500 to 2,500 thousand in administrative proceedings. ” However, City Police officers have not yet acceded to these sanctions.

“The law gives us the opportunity to solve the situation by agreement. We will respect this principle at the beginning of the amendment. But people, instead of fines, should be afraid of their health. “said Lena, a spokesman for Hradec policemen, but she did not want to anticipate when the” defense time “ended.

“We think better information than repression. That is why we will now focus on pedestrians warning that without reflective tapes they are easily vulnerable on the roads, “she added, saying that the most dangerous sections are located between the connectors of individual municipalities.

Revolution on the roads: The failure of reflective elements is fine!

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.

Drivers must wear reflective vests in casualties

While reflective vests for pedestrians, which cost about 50 to 200 crowns, it is only considered that vests for the driver are already decided. As of January 1, all vehicles must be fitted with a vest which the driver must wear whenever their car has, for example, a fault, a wheel or a road accident.

The amendment to the Road Act, which could begin to apply in the middle of the year, will bring further news on Czech roads. Especially tougher penalties for aggressive drivers.

Overtaking the man or entering the track around the gates that have been launched will be seven points behind, “mice on the roads” in five. These are maneuvers in which most people die on the roads. Much more has to be borne in mind by the motorists for safety belts sewn-in reflective tapes and car seats for child passengers. Here, penalties are tightened.

Conversely, no penalty points would have been made for banal offenses, such as daylight-off or ride-on lanes.

The new feature is also a much tougher fight against illegal car racing in common traffic, such as the Gumball or Diamond Race. Police officers did not have levers. This will change. In the future, it will be possible for drivers who, for example, to drive on the highway at a speed of the twenty-kilometer speed, can take up to two days in a car.

From the beginning of November, reflective safety vests should also be mandatory on all roads.