Month: November 2015

New traffic rule suggests reflective tape for pedestrians

During the day the Kiev GAI found eight cars who are wanted in the capital May 26 traffic police in reflective uniform recorded 361 violation of traffic rules (including the failure to comply with road signs and markings – 62, breaking the rules of roundabouts – six machine operation without the necessary documents – 17, a violation of rules of stop and parking – 17, stay behind the wheel while intoxicated – 29, infringement of rules of passing pedestrian crossings – 66 pedestrians-violators – 72).

Registered accident four (two of them – hit a pedestrian), in which four people were injured.
Taking into account the deterioration in weather conditions – in the capital of rain is expected with thunderstorms and strong gusts of wind – GAI of Kiev encourages drivers to adhere to traffic rules to increase the distance between vehicles, to move with the dipped headlights (or fog lights), refuse risky maneuvering, but when you stop and hazard lights. Metropolitan Traffic Police advises pedestrians have reflective tapes on clothing – it will reduce the risk of accidents. It is particularly important to provide a children’s clothing.

Meanwhile, traffic police found eight cars that were on the wanted list.

In the capital, continuing preventive measures “Pedestrian. Crosswalk “,” Rows “,” Avtokofeyni “,” LFA “,” Primrose “and” excise duty “. In the Kiev region in the day there were five accidents in which five people were injured. Recorded 218 violations of traffic rules, in particular, the driver drove 21 transport in a drunken state, 34 – exceeded speed.

On Tuesday, there were two accidents, which resulted in the two cyclists were injured and were taken to hospital. At 6.45 on the 28th kilometer of the Kyiv – Kharkov 49-year-old driver of VAZ-21061 41-year-old knocked down a cyclist who was riding in the same direction. And at 9.30 in Bovary 56-year-old resident of Kiev, driving a truck DAF, at the exit to the main road 71-year-old knocked down a cyclist.

On the same day at 11.30 in the city of White Church unknown driver on unidentified car ran over a 60-year-old pedestrian in safety vest. The driver fled from the scene of the accident and the injured man was taken to hospital. Soon the workers of the regional traffic police identified and arrested the offender – it was 29-year-old driver of a GAZ-33023.

Reflective clothing for visually impaired people

The event was presented reflective clothing that is specially designed for people with visual impairment.

Models show “Step into the light,” made by visually impaired people and several collections of clothes were presented to experience serious vision problems. These people know the personal example of the necessary requirements to clothes.

A prerequisite is the presence of a plurality of pockets and a special pocket for sticks, reflective elements. On the legs and chest should be to strengthen the elements that can soften the blow of a collision with sharp objects and surfaces. Specific requirements – for shoes, summer and winter collections of great attention is paid to strengthening in the area of the fingers.

To participate in the program “Step into the light” was filed more than 20 applications from designers, including designers from normal vision, but who feel fashion in the literal sense of the word.

During visually impaired designers nicely captures the mood of the room and the attitude of the collections created in the dark. Many of them do not distinguish the color, do not see the reflective fabric and create masterpieces to the touch. The audience was struck by a bright collection of designer Alana, is colorblind.

The highlight of the evening was the presentation of two European designers – Anaya Briton and Christine Wolf. They shared their experiences and spoke about the attitude towards this issue in Europe.