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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.

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.

This is an aggravating factor for road safety

Lieutenant of Traffic of the Civil Guard and responsible of the detachment of To Corunna, Jose Manuel Lopez participated yesterday in the campaign of sensitization initiated. “The data are worrisome both at the provincial level and the Costa. At the provincial level, we have 10 pedestrians who died in 2016; six in 2017 and three so far this year. These are very worrying data because, in most cases, they were abuses in which the victims were not wearing something as simple as a reflective vest.

 

According to the head of the detachment in A Corunna, these ominous statistics are even worse in a rural like the Costa: “Population aging and dispersion act as an aggravating factor. People need to run their errands and have to go on general roads, with a great movement of traffic. These pedestrians, either walk, or vehicles that do not require a driver’s license, with the risk that entails.

 

This campaign aims to be an awareness of the need to follow the indications on road safety. “It’s no use having the reflective safety vest at home. You have to use it whenever you go out; it is the only way to be visible to drivers, because the risk of being run over is very high. If you add to that a poor public lighting, adverse weather conditions, and the use of dark clothes, the possibility of an outrage increases exponentially. ”

 

This campaign of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters in collaboration with the Civil Guard Traffic Sub-sector of a Corunna is carried out in all the detachments. In the province, A Corunna, Santiago and Ferrol, but it will be especially significant in cameras such as the Costa, in which almost half of those killed in the road network were passers-by without high visibility clothing.