News – Published Friday, June 21, 2013 at 13:31 by James Vidal
The National Road Safety Council has just made its recommendation on the retro reflective vest motorcycle. Required (at least under the seat), do not wear it if need be fined in the amount of € 35.
Update 10 May 2015: The requirement will be for 1 January 2016.
The NSRF therefore comes to shell its recommendations to the Ministry of Interior. Not surprisingly, the new (not so new) one size number plates and the transport of a retro reflective vest the Optional Port will figure prominently.
It’s by the end of the year that the recommendations will or not transposed into a law, but the NSRF therefore formally proposed this morning that the obligation to have a retro-reflective vest be extended scooter riders and bikers.
“II. – The driver must be of a high visibility jacket with reflector when it is brought out of a stopped vehicle on the road or its surroundings after an emergency stop. Outstanding, the driver must have this jacket handy. ”
Warning if no penalty will be applicable in case of non-submission of this vest during a check, its non-use when necessary can be suppressed as for motorists, with a fine.
To date, this is a 4th class fine but the NSRF proposes to lower it to a second class. It is 35 € for any biker or not wearing retro reflective vest, because of an accident or emergency stop. We will monitor the implementation of these proposals in the coming months, as the reactions of the manufacturers, who had already had to get rid of stocks armband
4 mandatory retro-reflective stickers on the helmet (on pain of a fine of € 135) are there to ensure nighttime visibility of the rider when he is not on his motorcycle. Under such conditions, it is therefore surprising that wearing the vest with a reflective tape in case of an emergency stop should be extended to bikers. Unless it is considered bad mind to think that yellow vest, in the pipes for years, must be gently placed, no matter what the moaners and statistics.