Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) east prefectural police office manager Taro Tamest underlines the recent tragic consequences of road accidents in the light once again the necessity of the reflective fabric.
“The cells in the field of Kaput-Cells-Palavered 12 km road reflectors for pedestrians got hit by a car, injured a pedestrian died at the hospital” – just a partial message I received yesterday evening. First, I got to thinking that this year Virus road fatalities are now a total of 18 people, unfortunately, the majority of them either own or omissions as a result of abusive behavior. Quite a statistical reflection of a tough flight only, is not it!? Apparently, however, let’s also be honest about the need and necessity of the reflector with reflective tape has been said for many years, and the justifications or excuses for such behavior cannot be.
Entry of the retro-reflector is not a formal requirement of the legislator, but that it has a higher purpose – carrying it becomes more visible to pedestrians and drivers will make their driving significantly safer. The reflector is a decent car headlight light visible for a distance of 130-150 meters. While pedestrians like car headlights from afar, identified the driver without headlights pedestrian reflector spotlight only 30-40 meters away. When driving in the dark distracting the driver still oncoming car lights, scratches and dirt on the windscreen or in the rain and fog, so bad weather could almost halve this distance with a driver notices a pedestrian reflectors. In the worst case, it is only 15-20 meters, which is not enough that the driver is able to avoid the collision by braking for pedestrians with reflective vest. At a speed of 90 km / h the vehicle stopping distance on dry pavement about 70 meters. However, wet or snow is considerably longer stopping distance.