Therefore it is important to always use reflex

Spannavegen one evening in December. I feel quite aware where the car is rolling home. It’s dark but starlit.

I know that a few hundred meters in front of me is a pedestrian wearing safety vest crossing. I know that the lighting is not optimal. I know I look a little worse in the dark than in daylight.

Therefore I follow extra well with this evening.

When I approach the pedestrian crossing, glimpse I barely a shadow on the west side – on the opposite side of where I run.

The person enters into the road. When he reaches the center stripe, hurtling another car past – tight against his ass.

It feels as if my heart skips a beat. Heart rate increases, the palms of my being clammy.

I slows even a little, and let the boy go over the pedestrian crossing.

He is dressed in dark trousers and dark jacket.

No glare, no light, almost impossible to spot.

I do not think the incident is unique.

On the contrary, I think quite a few motorists on Haugalandet can recognize themselves in it to experience being almost-killers.

Like me, I think a lot has also been raging in its horror, and cursed the pedestrians or cyclists who have intimidated them that way.

More strange is that why so many pedestrians and cyclists are still not using reflective when they are outside the car safe seat.

When they themselves are the soft road users to travel on roads ours.

A survey for Road Safety has conducted showed that over 80 percent of those surveyed adults said they went with reflex.

But when the same organization conducted a random count, had only 1 of 3 observed reflection on themselves.

Perhaps this is the soft passengers scourge; you will “just” a little trip out, and when one needs the not take on reflex.

This week should Haugesund Avis spotlight our reflexively use locally. Some convenient, we can say: “We have many readers, but none to lose.” No one to lose.

After a traffic accident sitting there many left, besides those directly affected.

Although no one is killed, although the car only “pushed slightly down” pedestrians, putting the incident his mark on many more than those involved.

Family and friends of the person who was hit, will be told the story, and will make his own reflections on the incident.

But maybe not the event will cause them even do things differently.

Maybe not that they shall go with reflex next time they are looking.

During the winter months I ask often in the same jacket, the warmest I have. In one pocket is still reflective tape, as I lay there for a few years back.

At that time it was important to be a role model for kids.

But it was to remember to take them out of his pocket then.

Do you remember?