Category: road safety

Wearing reflective vests: zero tolerance in the evening

For the past week, members of the Traffic Enforcement Squad have been conducting a zero-tolerance campaign against motorcyclists who do not wear reflective vests during the evening.

 

The police use the strong way against motorcyclists who do not wear reflective vests at night. In recent days, elements assigned to the Traffic Branch and the Traffic Enforcement Squad is present at various points of the country after dark. Their duties include “severely sanctioning” motorcyclists for non-wearing reflective vest, driving without lights, or without proper lanterns, or defective.

 

A senior police officer close to the file explains, “This long-term operation aims to make motorcyclists aware of the importance of wearing reflective vests during the evening. There are many serious accidents involving motorcycles that occur during the night and this is due to the lack of visibility of motorcyclists. The latter often tend not to wear reflective safety vests as required by law.

 

At the police press cell, Inspector Shiva confirms the implementation of the zero tolerance operation. He states that a list of the areas where the police will be present has already been drawn up. The targeted regions are Port Louis, Cassville, Flick and various northern regions, according to overlap.

 

“Two-wheelers are reckless and sometimes tend to underestimate the risks when they hit the road. Any collision involving motorcycles can be fatal. The idea behind the repression is to remember that the wearing of the vest is primarily important for the safety of the motorcyclist, “says Barley, author of the Complete Driver’s Guide.

 

Daniel Raymond, a special advisor on road safety at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, points out that “repression is the most direct way of tackling the non-wearing of reflective vests by some motorcyclists. Wearing a vest has no social or economic constraint. It is just a question of road safety. Currently, the road looks like a jungle because each user does what he wants. For now, we must use the strong method because we do not have much choice. It will be a long-term plan.”

 

Will forest animals also wear reflective elements?

When we talk about human rights (see the newly revised foreign policy concept of the government), I have been feeling for a long time that motorists have the rights somewhat more than they have non-motorists, just need to care the road safety.

 

I will remind you, for example, how long green pedestrians have been lit on the traffic lights and how long they have been in the car, even though they are moving incomparably faster, and it would take less time for them. On the other hand, the tendency to interrupt pedestrian crossings, say, for the good of the infantry, for their greater security. It is only occasionally that someone tells you that those transitions are simply too much and that it disturbs the flow of traffic. Which is wrong, while walking a hundred yards from the aborted crossing is normal and desirable? After all, there is more to “fresh” air.

 

Perhaps it would be enough to reduce the speed

The latest pedestrian good was approved by the government in the form of one provision of the current amendment to the Road Traffic Act, which is now heading to the Chamber of Deputies. I am imposing on it the obligation to wear reflective elements on the garment (the specific shape of the element is not prescribed) if the visibility is outside the village on a road without pavements. Certainly, those abusive non-automobiles are few and the reflective elements purely technically at least some of their protections are, even though they are not wiped before being swept away.

 

On the other hand, however, there should be an obligation, even a financial one (however, if buying a reflective tape for a relatively comprehensible amount, if not counting the non-punitive financial penalties in case of disobedience) to someone who is less of a source of danger, who is by far the greater threat. As more logical, it would seem to me, for example, to provide a type of bad visibility that the driver is obliged to reduce the speed of the road on the road outside the village so that any pedestrian conflict can be avoided or at least minimized. Moreover, on the road, not only the pedestrian but also the wildlife can suddenly appear under the described conditions. She is even more likely. Will she be required to wear a reflective tape? By the way, it is not quite a joke, in one of the Nordic countries they say they intend to use a reflective color to refer to wildlife reindeer.

 

It looks like this as a punishment for a non-motorist for the fact that he even allows himself to move along the road, even for poor visibility. However, the same right to use road communications, unless explicitly forbidden by applicable law, has both a motorist and a pedestrian or cyclist. I emphasize that the right is equal, that the automobile is not bigger, it is not preferred. The right to freely use public roads is perhaps even the oldest.

 

I have my horses, the duty to clean the pine trees

I am not a lawyer, so I can be mistaken. But I believe that if someone insists that moving along the road, surrounded by material tracts, which is multiplied by the speed of movement, becomes a potentially fatal hazard for unintentional (and armored) road users, it should be primarily he, who should be subject to risk-mitigating obligations to slaughter those unwholesome. Lapidary speaking, somebody gets a common, he does not have the right to expect him to clean his horse lobelia after his walk – no matter how much he can slip even after the horse’s lobelia and make a good charge.

 

 

Car on vacation: what do you have to know before you go

If you are one of those who travel on your own holiday, it is your duty to monitor the traffic regulations of the target and transit countries. See the most important rules. Since 1 May, new customs regulations about road safety have started to say that if you rent a car outside the EU with a registration plate there, you can not travel to the EU with this car.

 

Low Emission Zone in Paris, ecological plaques and a ban on headphones

In Paris, a low-emission zone has been in force since July 1. From Monday to Friday from 8 am to 8 pm, vehicles with a Euro 2 emission class and below may not enter it. You will be charged from € 35 to € 78 for violating the ban. However, fines will not begin to run until September 1. This is also related to the introduction of ecological plaques in July. They have six types and differ in color, with the highest electric cars. Blanquettes, on the other hand, do not have the chance to get cars produced before 1997 and motorcycles before 1999. These vehicles are no longer in Paris’s streets. The obligation to have a plaque on the car is postponed for three months. Starting October, you will pay a fine of € 35 for a breach of duty; from January 2017, it will increase to € 68 (for € 135). It is not yet certain how the foreigners’ cars will be accessed since October.

 

In France, they have to wear a safety vest and have recently forbidden the use of headphones when driving a vehicle in general (bicycle, motorbike, and car). The prohibition also applies to handsets in the ear.

 

New rules in Austria

You cannot use the phone from mid-June. The Hands free is only allowed if it is firmly installed in the vehicle, either during production or after a professional fitting with an approved homologation service. Special hands free headphones supplied with your phone are also enabled. Only calls are allowed when waiting, standing in a column or red. You will be fined from € 50 to € 72 for infringement. If you have made a mistake in handling or even caused an accident to handle the mobile, you can “earn” a penalty of up to 2180 Euros.

 

Motorcycles are also allowed to light even in good visibility (so-called daylight). In the event of visibility deterioration, the dipped beam must be switched on. The new modification also prohibits any handling of the tachometer status of the car. On the contrary, the reflective vest is newly mandatory only for the driver.

 

Cyclists will have new safety rules to respect

Bicyclists will have to observe new traffic rules for road safety, soon the normative act that foresees them coming into force on Saturday. In fact, some of the road traffic bans have been slightly mitigated, and the act sets out how children under the age of seven can be carried on a bicycle.

 

Bicyclists will have to observe new traffic rules, starting this Saturday. Government Decision no. 965/2016, which will enter into force on January 21, 2017, and which will amend the Road Traffic Regulation, provides, in addition to numerous new regulations for car drivers, a number of important changes for cyclists.

 

On Saturday, cyclists running on public roads will be able to install on their bicycles including car audible warning systems. Whether or not we speak of a car horn, they still have the obligation to put on such a warning system on the bike. In addition, the fluorescent reflective elements placed on the wheels (the so-called “cat eye”) should no longer be orange.

 

In addition, the bicycle will no longer have to be equipped with white / yellow light and red, reflective and reflective at the back of the night, or when the visibility is reduced, according to the normative act. Now, cyclists have this obligation when traveling on public roads, regardless of the time of the day or the conditions of visibility.

 

The Act also provides a novelty for parents: Bikes will be able to carry children under the age of seven but only by an adult and provided that the bicycle is factory-fitted with a special holder or has an approved device for the transport of small ones. At present, cyclists can carry children under seven only if the vehicle is fitted with a special mount or if it is built and equipped specifically for the transport of other people. However, no reference is made to what age the bicyclist should be.

 

Finally, on Saturday, cyclists will not be allowed to circulate inside the localities where public lighting does not work or outside the locality without a reflective vest, at night or when visibility is low. Currently, the legal provisions make no mention of public lighting; the vest must be worn regardless of this condition.

 

Safety vest from multi collections for migrants bike

The Province of Livorno promoted the road safety initiative. The Red Cross of Livorno has received 250 reflective vests that will be distributed to its guests.

 

From the proceeds of the fines come the life jackets for migrants using the bicycle: this is the initiative put in place by the Province of Livorno for road safety. So they have been delivered to the Red Cross of Livorno 250 reflective vest.

 

Cycling outside the built-up areas after sunset can be dangerous if, as prescribed by the Highway Code, suitable reflective vests are not worn that increase the cyclist’s visibility along the streets without lighting. That is why the Province of Livorno decided to use part of the proceeds of fines for infractions along the provincial roads, for the purchase of vest with high visibility reflective bands, to be distributed to the migrants hosted in the Red Cross reception centers.

 

 

Reflective vest – “road safety is a priority”

The inhabitants of the town of Moray have decided to stand up to those who do not respect the limits in a very curious way.

 

Speeding is a very serious problem that occurs on the roads around the world. In our country, according to figures from the DGT, more than 300 people die each year in accidents in which speed is a determining factor. On freeways and motorways, fixed and mobile radars keep drivers who step on the accelerator too high. However, things change in rural areas, where a national road crosses the town and, although the signs mark 50 kilometers per hour, drivers do not hesitate to exceed this limit.

 

Faced with the inaction of the authorities, the inhabitants of Moray, a small village in the extreme north of Scotland have decided to end this situation. The neighbors, neither short nor lazy, have decided to put on a reflective vest in the main street of the town and point these hairdressing devices to some cars.

 

The objective is none other than to intimidate the reckless drivers who exceed the established limit of 60 miles per hour stipulated (about 96 kilometers per hour). Therefore, these, when they see the reflection of the vest, decide to step on the brake and slow down to confuse them with police carrying a strange device in their hands.

 

“It really is very dangerous, the speed that reaches the cars to cross Hope Man is very serious, especially when children go to school,” explained Dennis Slater, council member of the town, the BBC. “We do not like to go out on the street with hairdryers and high visibility vests, but we are trying to show that it is a desperate situation,” he adds.

 

After the measures adopted by the residents of Moray, the Scottish police wanted to come out with a statement to reassure the population, in which he assures that “road safety is a priority” for them, and more in that area.

 

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.

 

Child safety on the way to school

The first step to improving the road safety of children on the way to school is education. And it’s not just about recipes. You also need to learn to anticipate the situation. You should go with the child several times to talk about the dangers and explain how to act in difficult moments. In addition, we must adhere to the rules themselves, because the youngest are observers, who quickly take over from us bad habits.

 

“If the baby is delivered, we always put them in the child seat. In addition, do not stop the car in inappropriate places to quickly release the child to school, “- says Maria, director of the Center for Road Safety at the Institute of Motor Transport, in an interview. Also remember that a child under 7 cannot go to school alone.

 

Parents should also take care of the right outfit for their baby, including reflective elements. As we move in the evening, we are only visible to the driver at a distance of 20 m. The reflector increases this distance even up to 150 m! When a child cycles, always have a helmet on his head.

 

Ensuring security is also a responsibility of the school and the local government. They should take care of the appropriate means of transport to bring their children to school and to train drivers and careers, hand out the reflective vest to students for visibility, as well as organize educational meetings for students.

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A lot of July issue of the monthly “Railway Market” magazine is devoted to ticket issues and transport organization. We present problems in the implementation of a joint ticket in Poland and show model Swiss solutions to this issue. In the section “Infrastructure” we write about the planned return to the capital of the Warsaw station. We also talk with Staler Polka board member about the jubilee of the company and we present prospects for the entry of Polish trains to other Polish trains. In the extensive reflective material “More Darts we will not be. What went wrong?” We present the history of the most turbulent delivery of rolling stock in Poland. We also describe doubts about the modernization of the E20 Warszawa-Poznan bus.

 

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