The Ministry of Infrastructure reviews drivers’ regulations and plans to change them. One of them is to introduce the necessity of carrying a first aid kit in a car. The resort justifies that its lack on the list of mandatory car equipment is in conflict with the regulations that force drivers to help victims of accidents.
Currently, we must only have a fire extinguisher and a triangle in every car registered in Poland. Meanwhile, in many European countries on this list there is also a reflective vest, which must be used in the event of immobilization of the car on the road and first aid kit – necessary to provide first aid. In many countries, law already requires a vest and first aid kit.
The Ministry of Infrastructure, as part of activities to reduce the number of victims on Polish roads, wants to soon introduce the obligation to carry a first-aid kit in each car. Work on appropriate changes in law is already under way. Regulations must specify not only the penalty for the lack of a first aid kit, also to calculate its content in detail. The cost of the first aid kit will certainly not be high, because bandages, patches, and tourniquets are not extremely expensive and usually everyone has them in their home medicine cabinet.
Recall that now the penalties threaten to lack in the car properly marked fire extinguisher and a warning reflective triangle (with the approval mark). Remember that the extinguisher is better to carry in an easily accessible place in the cabin, and not in the trunk under a stack of packages. The fire extinguisher should be easily accessible.