Category: reflective band

First graders know how to stay safe on the road

September 29 students from the first grades of Primary School No. 4 Nicolas Copernicus participated in the “Safe Way to School” campaign. Police officers in safety vest carried out a well-organized action.

 

During the meeting, the first graders had the opportunity to check and broaden their knowledge of traffic regulations. The students were eager to answer the questions asked and listened to the lectures of police officers with interest. Everyone received reflective bands and promised to wear them always with them, especially during the evening autumn walks.

 

The police officers made the students a huge surprise bringing with them a large, mascot-like – POLMISIA. The children were very pleased with the presence of the mascot, who along with them set off to the streets. The students together with the police officers checked the acquired knowledge in practice. Dressed in reflective vests, they passed the belts using the current traffic rules.

 

The first graders also arrived, where they were greeted by the Mayor, presented with sweets and wishes for a safe road to school.

The Civil Protection “in safety” with Airbag Jacket

After the agreement with Bemba, Halite Italia is back on target. The “Moto taffeta Fruitland – Volunteer Organization” (the first Motorcycling Association associated with the Civil Protection of Friuli Venetia Giulia), equipped its motorcyclists with the airbag safety vests of the company directed in Italy by Petro.

 

Thanks to the support, the members of Moto Fruitland, headed by Silvia, opted for the AirNet model in the High Visibility version, characterized by a predominantly fluorescent yellow with reflective bands, and personalized on the back with the official logo of the “Civil Protection of Friuli Venetia Giulia” and previously with the symbol of the Friuli Moto.

 

In the event of a fall or accident with your two wheels, the Halite airbag will cushion the impact, stiffen the torso and spine, limiting the rotation of the helmet in all directions and reducing the risk of injury and compression of the cervical vertebrae. The airbag inflates on the chest, the sides, the neck, the cervical spine and on the whole column in just 10 hundredths of a second!

 

A confirmation that even in times of crisis, the best investment is in security. If we calculate the public costs due to motorbike and scooter road accidents and the costs in terms of human lives and serious injuries, it is easy to understand that it is much better to prevent rather than try to remedy, as far as possible.

 

Worth wearing reflective elements in darkness

“Reflecting fashion is security and comfort,” Marek Konkolewski, head of police at TVN24, argued. How to use reflective vest to function properly? A small experiment was conducted.

 

Fluorescent elements should be remembered especially in autumn and winter when visibility on the road is limited. All the more so because the reflections are not only necessary for safety but also aesthetic, as proved by the action of the A2 motorway in Wielkopolska, which is safe, reflecting on the glamor of the fashion world.

In order to see how glare works, the lights went out in the TVN24 studio, and the speaker and the expert part of the conversation were illuminated only by fluorescent elements.

 

As Marek Konkolewski recalled from the Police Headquarters, there is a provision in Polish law that says that every child under the age of 15 who moves in the dusk outside the built-up area is obliged to wear reflective elements in a visible way for others. Konkolewski emphasized that it encourages everyone to wear reflectives, but especially to care for older people, and those who do not use walkways and pedestrian crossings or are forced to use busy roads outside built-up areas.

 

How to use reflectors to be better visible on the road? “According to the law, when we move on the road, we have to go face to the oncoming vehicle, that is to the left of the road,” Konkolewski explained. This way the pedestrian sees the oncoming car, and the driver will be able to see the pedestrian with a reflective element, “he added. Konkolewski also explained that if only one fluorescent element is available, it is best to wear it around the neck. If we have a reflective band, we should put it on the right leg.

 

Drivers must be vigilant

Konkolewski emphasized how much depends on the drivers themselves. “Drivers must have properly set lights,” he explained, adding that this is particularly important in the autumn and winter. – Dirty glass headlamps can absorb almost 40 percent. Lights, “he warned. Also remember to replace burned-out light bulbs and set the lights after replacing them.

Why we need to wear reflective vest

Do motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians have to wear the reflective vest? It was one of the questions you answered Andrés Gomez-Lobo in DNA testing.

 

Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Andrés Gomez-Lobo spoke with Andrea and José Antonio Name on the use of reflective vest, whose possession in the car is compulsory from the first of January, this 2016 that is just beginning.

The head of the portfolio answered some of the questions that have resonated more recent days:

 

Why yellow vest?

“The reason for that is because it is a color that is very visible day” and “night, which is retro reflective bands are having,” said Gomez-Lobo.

 

Does the use is mandatory or only available in the car?

“We must carry a reflective vest as part of the emergency kit, and this vest must be accessible from inside the cabin of the car , ” said the Minister, explaining that it is not necessary to take hung in the passenger seat, but take visible it might be useful to show that the device actually possessed.

 

Do motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians should use it?

“Now each other always recommend that pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, who are particularly vulnerable on the roads, use a reflective element and hopefully the safety vest,” he said.

Safety vest – So children are seen even in darkness and bad weather

The cold season begins and it brings mainly cloudy and poor visibility with it. Children are on the road to the most vulnerable road users. They are particularly vulnerable if they are not sufficiently “visible” to other road users.

 

To be seen better in rain, fog or twilight, children should wear bright, high-contrast clothing. The trade offers – pretty handy – even jackets with reflective tape on. For jackets or west without incorporated reflectors reflective designs can subsequently ironed for little money. Also good choices are reflective bands that can be worn around wrists and ankles, and if necessary can be applied quickly and find any jacket pocket.

 

For children who are traveling by bicycle, there are even bicycle helmets that shine. Should not be forgotten, the control of lights and reflectors on the wheel, which are used frequently in the dark season. Because: Especially with the battery after a long summer, where the lights were not needed, suddenly empty.

 

The school knapsacks have also reflective areas. If these are with stickers, they do not serve the traffic safety. The classic mounted on jacket or bag, are often lost. This has also Ulrike, principal of elementary school found: “tear off quickly.”

 

Therefore, there is for the first year of school for several years now bright yellow west from ADAC hooded. They are not only quite loud and clearly visible on a few meters distance from other road users; they also have reflective strips and look pretty from. The following is the I-males. “The vests are cool”, the students have found. Class teacher Cornelia has distributed the fluorescent jackets a few days ago in its class. Almost all of the 20 children are wearing the reflective vest every day. The traffic safety training at the elementary school they become real little traffic detectives. And so it should ultimately be in the best case.

Reflective band: A necessity for road safety

Another accident killed two people on the road this weekend. The regional observatory for road safety is sounding the alarm. Pedestrians are particularly affected. The lack of lighting and reflective tape at night is a real problem.

Last Saturday, a pregnant woman and a teenage girl were killed in a car accident on the road of Apatou. They were not wearing a belt with reflective tape. Their deaths bring to twenty-four the number of fatalities on the roads of Guyana since the beginning of the year. The figure is increasing sharply compared with last year, according to the regional observatory for road safety. Last year for the same period, fifteen deaths related to traffic accidents were recorded. “I despair a little, we did a lot of prevention but apparently that’s not enough,” sighs Didier, director of the regional observatory for road safety in Guyana.

Speed is at the head of the causes and alleged aggravating circumstances. This year, ten people have died in accidents related to excessive speed, according to the balance sheet as at September 4th. Alcohol and / or drugs, are not far behind with eight deaths, and then come the helmet of default (four killed), the fault belt (two killed in Apatou September 3), priority (a shot) and the lighting failure (one killed). Pedestrians are part of this sorry record. Of the six killed in 2016, five were not wearing reflective vest while walking at night on the roadside.

“WE DO NOT CONVINCING BY PUNISHMENT”

Last year, between January and September, one pedestrian was killed on the road. Given this assessment, the authorities react. Like the Gendarmerie Company of Saint-Laurent du Maroni, who organizes an awareness campaign tomorrow? From 18 hours, four yellow safety vests dispensing stations will be set up in Saint-Laurent and Mana.

The prefect Martin Jaeger emphasizes the safety of pedestrians and two-wheelers. “We must stop thinking that it is because we see a vehicle that the driver sees us,” insists the prefect. He appealed to citizens’ initiatives to strengthen security on the roads and would mobilize associations and traders to distribute reflective bands. The two-wheels that have no light may be fined and radars continue to flash back and forth but, according to the prefect, “are not convinced by the repression.” The town councils should, in turn, address the issue of road lighting. Some lines are not lit and no channels are arranged for pedestrians. To reduce the number of road deaths, each shall adopt a responsible driving.