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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.

 

 

Incorporate Road safety detail in your personalized equipment

As is well known, cyclists are a vulnerable group when they travel by road between cars and other vehicles. Despite the regulations to leave the minimum space of 1.5m to overtake, many are the drivers who commit infractions endangering the lives of those who ride on the bike.

 

For this reason, any element that helps to increase the visibility of them is helpful to add safety, although in the end this always ends up depending on the awareness of the drivers themselves. From Taylor we offer several options for road safety that have the sole purpose of contributing to saving the physical integrity of cyclists who leave by road to train. All of them are available in custom, so you can include them in the customization of your cycling gear.

 

First, we have the fluorescent colors, which multiply the cyclist’s visibility on the asphalt. The FLUOR ADDICTION collection is the living example. It is not the same to see “spot” yellow fluorescent than to see it black or some other neutral color. In the first case, the circulation of the cyclist becomes more evident, and, therefore, safety is gained. When it comes to customizing your jersey, you can include these colors in your designs, which also, as has been proven, also give an extra personality and style to the garment.

 

Another of the elements we use in our culottes are the reflective cuffs, available in both short and long versions (3 cm the first and 7 cm the second). They incorporate micro-points of reflective material on the surface that makes them shine when the light strikes directly, also increasing the cyclist’s visibility and making the garment useful, so that they can circulate when the sun is going out or even at night. These cuffs can be sublimated, so they can incorporate any design and / or color, also fluorine, of course, as we can see in the FLUOR ADDICTION collection.

 

Finally, we also have reflective living, which can be incorporated into any seam of our cycling jersey or jacket. It gathers the same properties as the fist, but in this case the surface is not covered with microdots of reflective material but it is in its entirety, shining slightly more than the fists.

 

 

 

Recommend measures to prevent traffic accidents

On the World Day in Memory of the Victims of Traffic Accidents, the Mexican Ministry of Health recommends respecting road safety signs, speed limits, avoiding alcohol consumption, using cell phones or other devices and not driving tired.

 

He points out that human errors are the main cause of road mishaps, so he also calls to check vehicles before going on the road, using seat belts, restraint systems for children and motorcyclists, wearing a helmet and reflective vest.

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) details that each year 1.3 million lives are lost in automobile accidents, and are the main cause of death for people between 15 and 29 years of age.

 

Respond to emergencies in roads and highways, Police dressed safety clothing, the personnel of the 68 ambulances is in coordination with the Security Secretariat of the entity and they are linked to the Control Centers, Command, Computation , Communication and Quality (C5) of Toluca and Ecatepec to provide greater prevention and care, to reduce the risk of disability among the injured.

 

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.

 

Keep the road safety is also keeping your safety

It read that slogan of the General Directorate of Traffic that imprudence behind the wheel was paid, and more and more. The truth is that this announcement could well apply today in a literal sense. The efforts of the authorities to reduce traffic incidents have reduced the data, but unfortunately, cases continue to occur. If the accident rates have reduced, it is due to the sanctioning measures implemented. Do you know why you may suffer a loss of points or a fine of substantial amount? They will know habitual cases, and others not so much but punishable. They can be up to 6000 Euros, with loss of permission and even years of imprisonment.

 

According to ‘ABC’, with the entry into force of the card by points, Spanish drivers intend not to suffer significant corrections. Today, many are sanctioned without loss of points for circulating with the “dirty” or worn license plate, which prevents their reading; do not use the reflective vest when leaving the vehicle; do not carry spare wheel or circulate without the corresponding lighting. It does not mean loss of points but a sanction of about 200 euro. Pay attention. Granada became the city with the most fines per driver.

 

It is a city full of traps. With regard to the issue, it should be noted that the loss does not mean driving with the expired or unfavorable ITV (200 Euros) or with the negative ITV. In the latter case, the penalty amounts to 500 Euros. Also stresses that using the bursts of light with the vehicle in front is punishable with 80 Euros. With 200 Euros and the loss of two points of the card, anyone who circulates with children and under twelve as passengers on mopeds or motorcycles fined. You can even withdraw your permit for three months. Similarly, the stop or parking in a lane reserved for public transport vehicles would be punishable by such amount.

 

200 Euros and three points less will involve the use of a mobile phone or any device that distracts attention from the road; the non-use of the safety belt or a change of direction in areas that are not suitable for this purpose. The latter can also mean the withdrawal of the permit for three months.

 

With the same amount and the loss of four points will be sanctioned the driver or companion who throws to the road or in its vicinity objects that may cause fires; overtaking incorrectly; endangering cyclists; prevent the overtaking of another by increasing speed or performing reverse maneuvers on freeways or highways.

 

Finally, the loss of six points of the card can give for breaking speed limits, with penalties that can reach up to 500 Euros. Stresses that in case of exceeding 60 kilometers per hour of the speed allowed in urban road or 80 in interurban, the offender sentenced to prison terms of three to six months in addition to the corresponding fines.

 

In addition, if you refuse to submit yourself to a routine control, you could even impose prison sentences of half a year and deprivation of the right to drive from 1 to 4 years. Drive with inhibitors for the radars, 6000 Euros, 6 points of the license and withdrawal three months. Be careful and respect traffic regulations, keep the road safety is also keep your safety.

 

 

Too many cyclists circumnavigate their safety

In winter, it is not only cold, but dark. At the time of going to work or college, the sun is not always up and at night, at the time of debauchery, it is sometimes already lying down. This early December was therefore the ideal time to carry out the operations that took place Thursday and yesterday before the colleges.

 

The police station had put the package by hiring a dozen officials under the command of Major Luray, head of the public order and road safety unit, as well as officials of the municipal police of these three communes.

 

And the result is edifying: on the two days of this operation of road safety very targeted, since concentrated on bicycles, 60% of the 62 cycles controlled, were not in conformity. The drivers of these two-wheelers have all received convocation for a subsequent presentation of their bikes after compliance. All except one, who won the pompom, since it was verbalized for crossing red lights in the red phase, on a non-compliant cycle, with a phone held in hand. “The total …” sighs Major Luray frowning.

 

“I am surprised by the lack of information from these two-wheelers. So we gave them an explanatory leaflet to drive safely, but also yellow vests for the purpose of being seen by other road users. These control operations will be renewed periodically “, warns the police still reassured by the” very good reception reserved for the agents by the schoolboys who understood that our operation was made for their security “. As for the heads of institutions, they applauded with both hands this intervention beneficial for all and could see that in the corridors, the students spoke only about that…

 

Mandatory equipment

Reflectors (retro reflective devices): red in the back, white in the front, orange on the sides and on the pedals. Wearing a certified retro-reflective vest is mandatory for all cyclists (and passengers) traveling outside the city, at night, or when visibility is insufficient, especially in the event of fog like the one that envelops Agent in recent days. The Code la route applies to cyclists and other users. Each offense is punishable by a fine.

 

 

 

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.