Category: high visibility vest

Confusion around reflective vests for cars

Not so long ago, the motoring public outraged obligation to change the content of these chests, even if it has not been used in any part of them. While experts said that some medical materials have a much longer life than what is declared on the roster. Most drivers take at least this provision as waste.

 

This week, some news sites Nozzle-beating range of drivers with information about the need to replace the mandatory reflective vests for new ones, according to new EU regulations. Then it but responded Transport Minister Dan stream with a simple statement: Drivers may not change reflective vests equipped vehicles.

 

“Protective vests properties that corresponded to the earlier European standard EN 471 are sufficient safety and meet the technical requirements. So I would like to reassure motorists clearly that they do not throw away the vest that you made earlier and not have to buy new ones,” say Dan.

 

Requirement meet the new standard EN ISO 20471 according to the authority applies only to manufacturers, who market the new vests. “We’re the new ones or do not have, but we do not sell anything that does not pay,” said a saleswoman at a gas station Devin under the new bridge, where the editors newspaper tried to buy a new safety vest.

 

People in buying a new reflective vest in any case must now check the label, and whether it conforms to the European standard. Old standard EN 471 is no longer valid.

 

Waistcoat intended mandatory equipment for motor vehicles according to applicable regulations, it is the one that is marked by EN ISO 20471: 2013 and is described on the four-digit identification number of the Notified Body that it tested.

 

According to available information, the “old” vests according to EN 471 were to be resold for cyclists and pedestrians, but the product must be removed the name “Waistcoat” and indicate that this is high visibility clothing. While vest according to the old standard cost around thirty crowns vest according to the new decree will come to around sixty crowns.

 

The new decree brings many surprises and controversies such as the recent controversy surrounding the right of way at roundabouts. Warning vests may not be far from the last.

Bicyclists would be required to wear reflective vest

Senators joined a project that has “the use of high visibility reflective vest at night and when visibility conditions so require.”

 

“During the night and when visibility conditions so require, bicycle riders should always wear reflective high visibility vest.” This is the main slogan of the bill that senators Alejandro Navarro entered, Lily and Antonio Horvath Congress.

 

The initiative amending Article 80 of Law 18,290, Transit, establishing and shall be considered by the Committee on Transport and Telecommunications, noted that “despite the advantages of cycling as a means of transport many cyclists and people generally they have difficulty using reflective tape daily, among which is the insecurity of their cities, whose geography are not suitable for driving on streets outside the vehicle drivers do not respect their path and therefore may be victims of an accident traffic”.

 

Also, lawmakers indicated that “No. 18,290 Law says nothing regarding security measures mandatory for drivers of bicycles during driving at night and when visibility conditions so require, taking into account the statistics”.

 

In the same vein, they explained that “the security elements allow traffic accidents prevent and reduce potential damage and injuries that may result. In this sense the appropriate deployment and use of security elements as reflective high visibility vest, reducing, significantly, the risk of injury in the event of traffic accidents. “

City project require motorcyclists to wear safety vest

Approved the regulations, drivers and passengers must wear an identification sight of safety vest. The Buenos Aires ruling introduced in the Legislature on the new draft amendments to the Regulatory Decree of the National Road Traffic Act, with which it seeks to reduce the attack “pedestrian”.

 

The initiative was presented by lawmakers PRO, after a first public presentation on 9 March, in a ceremony attended by the Security Minister Patricia and the head of city government, between other officials.

Changes in Traffic Act seek to combat crime in motorcycle and identify those drivers traveling on the city.

 

With this, it seeks to regularize the situation of more than 7 million motorcycles and force you to carry identification with patent number helmets driver and passenger as well as a reflective vest to help identify the latter.

 

Since the ruling confident is that the project will be approved “within three months”, according to the newspaper Clarion. However, they must thwart the will of some detractors to achieve the 31 votes needed in the Buenos Aires Legislature.

 

Opponents of the measure are mostly motorcyclists themselves, at least those who use their vehicle as a working tool. On March 15, hundreds of workers and couriers deliveries demonstrated in the city center to express their disagreement. They note that the identification of helmets and patents will not solve the insecurity that they are being stigmatized and also thieves steal their bikes, helmets and vests them and then make sliders.

 

The amendments establish that both the driver and passenger must wear a regulation helmet showing the patent number. The second person to go up also must bear a refractory vest with the same recording.

 

The requirement must be fulfilled in service stations for refueling.

Failure to wear a helmet and high visibility vest will be considered a serious offense in terms of the National Road Traffic Act and will involve the immediate abduction.

If a kidnapped bike is not withdrawn by the holder within 60 days of retention, will be decontaminated and compacted, it can serve a public purpose.

Mandatory carriage of reflective vests in private vehicles

Security measure seeks to reduce the risk of abuse due to lack of visibility. Fines would reach $ 22 billion. From January 1, 2016 will begin to be mandatory carrying of high visibility vests inside private vehicles. The measure aims to reduce the risk of collision with drivers for some emergency must descend from his car.

 

Undersecretary of Transport, Cristián Bowen, told  T13  a person without an accessory of these features is visible to twenty meters, with the vest since it is possible to spot it at 150 meters.

In Intervial route, we deliver reflective vest for drivers. Since the mandatory year in prox car Kit. On the characteristics that must have safety vest, Bowen said that no matter the color and “the important thing is that fluoresce and also has reflective elements.”

 

“It’s the cheapest life insurance I know,” he added.

Fines for not carrying the article will be about $ 22 billion and Undersecretary explained that it is important that this safety vest be carried into the cabin of the car to avoid the risk of going to look for the trunk.

More elegantly stowing warning reflective vests

From 1 July onwards the general warning vigilance (European standard EN 471) applies in Germany. For this purpose, the Group is presenting an interior idea that not only increases the safety of the vehicle occupants, but also serves premium requirements.

 

As the interior experts emphasize, many drivers know the importance of the safety vest. But their sight is anything but beautiful, since the reflective signal colors often contrast strongly with the noble surfaces of a high-quality interior. To ensure that drivers are no longer required to stow away the legally prescribed warning vests in the door pockets, the glove compartment or even in the footwall, the warning vests in the interior idea of ​​the Darla Group disappear in several small suspension units. These can be located, for example, in the center console, in the instrument panel as well as in the door panels and are therefore no longer visible. As a result, the noble look of the premium interior is not impaired by the bright neon colors of the warning vests and, in case of emergency, the life guard is nevertheless easy to find.

 

Level 1: Warning indicator after activation of the hazard warning light. If the hazard warning system is activated in the event of a breakdown, the occupants can, by touching, open the respective roof cover itself, then quickly remove their warning vestiges, overlap and then leave the vehicle. With an optical indication, which starts to light up when the warning light is activated, the Darla Group ensures that vehicle occupants also know exactly where the high visibility vest suspensions can be found even at night or in low light conditions.

 

The expert for interior systems of premium vehicles makes use of his leather competences, among other things. Thus, on the leather-clad areas of the cockpit only light-colored light arrows are visible, which indicate the exact position of the warning vest compartments to the occupants. This is made possible by backlit leather, in which the corresponding areas are penetrated by a translucent micro-perforation, which is not visible in the normal case. In addition, the edges of the covers of the warning vest compartments should also be illuminated for better visibility.

 

Stage 2: Automatic to wear a warning vest after an accident

In an accident where the airbags are triggered, the life-saving warning vests come out of the interior compartments at the same time and are ready to be used with lightning speed. According to the idea of ​​the automotive supplier, the airbag sensors should also immediately trigger the release of the warning vests during a crash. The principle is comparable to a sudden pressure drop in an aircraft cabin, in which the oxygen masks also fall automatically from folding compartments above the seats.

Also here, according to the idea of ​​the Darla Group, ensure the colored light arrows? And even in very poor light and visibility conditions, such as after an airbag shot, in which gases and talcum are thrown through the air and can obscure visibility. In addition, in an accident, the vehicle occupants are often in an extreme stress situation. The handle for the life-saving warning reflective vest is therefore to be intuitive, very fast and easy. The Darla Group is now looking for car manufacturers for the joint development of the interior idea.

Reflectors for pedestrians

German transport politicians dream like zero fatalities. For this purpose they have to decide but also unpopular things. For example, a duty-high visibility vest for pedestrians in the winter as implemented in the Nordic countries.

 

Stuttgart – The number of deaths is expected to rise in Germany this year for the second time in a row again – after a long period of decline. Experts expect about 3450 victims, 2014 were 3377. Almost 16 percent of traffic fatalities last year were pedestrians, more than a third of the 523 killed in traffic pedestrian died in the months of November to January. This figure could be halved, if you believe the studies that come from Nordic countries. Where it is dark in the winter especially long, are reflectors on clothes for pedestrian’s duty.

 

One reader, in Finland grew, told our newspaper, as the runs there: “Every year, in the fall of the great memories – Radio, TV, newspapers, everywhere, Embark visible – forget the reflectors not ‘!.” Even a child never let out the children without reflectors her grandmother. “She did well to us that they as adults during the day has its reflector in his coat pocket and in the evening reshot on tape, so that the hanging at knee level, because the amount the cars have their lights.”

 

Even a small plastic piece that reflects the light of the cars would help. According to Finnish studies, a motorist at night a passerby with reflector detect already 150 meters before. Without reflector is only 40 meters.

 

Prescribing want you in this country nothing

In Finland reflectors since 2003 duty in Germany, they have so far not been successful at pedestrians. School starters wear perhaps reflective safety vest and luminous satchel. Most adults, however, are without reflectors on the road – in winter also often even in dark clothes.

That it would be different better, one acknowledges the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport. “It would have a positive road safety effect if all would move only dressed with reflective and light-colored clothes in public places at night always”, it says. But not everything Am working was also appropriate.

 

France has a high visibility vests mandatory for cyclists

In plain language, Hereby introduce a mandatory reflectors as in Finland or excite at the federal level, we do not think the Stuttgart Department of Transportation. “We inform people about the safety by bright or reflective clothing,” said a spokesman. “People can then decide for themselves how they want to behave.”

 

Also in terms of the visibility of cyclists, are employed in this country to inspect and voluntary. Focus of awareness campaigns is the lighting on the bicycle. The General German Bicycle Club (ADFC) shows students for example by means of a dark tunnel, how bad cyclists are seen without reflectors and lighting.

 

In other countries there is stricter for cyclists partly. Under French law, for example, since October 2008, for cyclists a reflective vest mandatory outside built – at night and in poor visibility. On posters, he was photographed in a yellow safety vest with the slogan: “It’s yellow, it’s ugly, and it matches nothing. But it can save your life. “

Spring: High season for killing motorcyclists

More than half of all fatal accidents on motorcycle occurred during the three spring months. The figures from the Council for Road Safety.There can be several reasons, says special consultant in the Road Safety Council, Søren Troels Berg.

Many motorcyclists have not given their motorcycle a thought since November where they parked it in the garage. When the sun begins to shine and the snow has melted, then they just out and without wearing reflective vest, and give it gas. The problem is that the routine and feel for the motorcycle has been weakened over the winter. It may be a factor in the accident, we see, he says.

Also speed affects the number of accidents. Too many motorcyclists are riding on too heavily.

Many motorcyclists running simply too strong. That, mixed with untrained reflexes and feel for other drivers are highly instrumental in increasing the number of accidents, says Søren Troels Berg.

Motorists do not pay attention

In almost 2/3 of last year’s 27 fatalities were another car, van or tractor involved in the accident. In the spring, many drivers accustomed from looking after the bikes, because so few of them running over the winter. At the same time, many believe also that the light they see in retrospect, from a moped 45. This underestimates the speed of the motorcycle, and it can cause accidents, says Søren Troels Berg.

The rules of lights on motorcycles need to be changed

Currently seen from administrative side at whether the rules for motorcykellys be changed.Currently discusses what changes can be made with respect to light on motorcycles for bringing accident numbers down. There being viewed several options, and considering whether stronger light and using reflective tape can be  the safety measures that would enhance safety and reduce the frequency of accidents. Such a change in the law could be implemented administratively and thus bypassing the legislative process in parliament, says Head of Road Safety and Transport Agency’s department for road safety, Ib Rasmussen.

The figures speak their clear language. Over the past five years, 140 people have been killed and a further 1,500 have been injured as a result of motorcycle accidents.

It went wrong for Richardt

37-year-old Richardt from Randers is one of those currently living with the consequences of a motorcycle accident. One July day in 1995 he kept waiting at the traffic at a traffic light.

400 meters further on was another cross, and I knew if I drove, I could reach across. So it turns green, so I give gas. At a MOMENT light starts to change. I’m starting to slow down, while a left-turning motorist runs through this junction, says Richardt.

Richardt speed has since been measured to 97 km / h. He does not dodge the car that collides with him at the intersection.

I fly one forty meters, and so I lie there and look at my leg. It was broken, and so is my shoulder, he said.Richardt was subsequently amputated his leg just below the knee, and he got a new shoulder. He worked ten years after the accident but today no longer able to hold down a job because of the consequences of the accident.

It is clearly the go, making the accident occurs. It was my risk-blindness that caused it. I had driven 50 km / h, so the situation never arose. It might have changed the situation, if I had been more visible. if I had worn a safety vest, for example, but it’s definitely the go who made the difference, says Richardt.

Maurice said no to yellow vest

Sensation in Mauritius: more than 1,500 bikers parade on January 7, against the requirement to wear retro reflective vest for motorcycles and scooters drivers vest. A fight that is not unlike the one led by the French Motorcyclists is in Anger between 2011 and 2012.
Obligation rejected!
In Mauritius, the Government has decided to impose wearing a retro-reflective vest to motorcycle drivers from 1 January 2014, according to the newspaper The Daily. Difficult to understand under these tropical latitudes, on an island where the purchasing power does not already allows everyone to travel with a safety helmet …
The same problems the same remedies
And in Mauritius as in France, when the government proposed a draconian measure of road safety, the two-wheeled users show. And they are successful!
“The Mauritian authorities have declined by announcing that the jacket of the port would not be mandatory in broad daylight,” says The Daily. In France, mobilization of bikers under the banner of the FFMC has enabled the transformation of the cuff vest with reflective tape and its abolition. This info end of the world allows us to remind us of good times (click on the links below)…

 

Dress reflective vest during exercise

In 1911, Norwegian explorer Road Amundsen reached for the first time, the South Pole. No bubo to report, but we must still specify that one of the team members had to undergo training to express the Oslo hospital to be able to cut a party member if ever it was freezing … the anecdote may seem dated, but the subject of sport in the cold is he, highly relevant fact, with winter approaching. Gilles Goetghebuer, editor of the magazine Atopic, a magazine specializing in the running, gives us some good tips to brave the cold.
Do not dress too warmly during exercise. “People with reflective vest tend to dress in overlapping layers to go running. However, when short, it emerges much energy as heat (4/5), so this extra layer is not necessary. During exercise, it gives off heat like a good little electric heater, it can hold at very low temperatures without any problems, “says Gilles Goetghebuer.
Avoid exposure to cold after exercise. “This is a deeply rooted habit, and after exercise, this is really the time when one is most vulnerable, explains the editor. After exercise, there is a low immunity phase which allows the immune system not to overreact to small injuries we have during the activity. Once the effort stops for a few minutes, we are very vulnerable. “Moral: we must cover them when the body is at rest. Scarf, hat, sweater … For once, at that time, so do not skimp on diapers!
Cover the ends. Fingers, nose, face, ears … All these parts are very sensitive to cold. “In case of low temperatures, blood circulation is reorganized and privileges the heart and brain. The blood deserted ends. Think, for example, when an ear is pierced to put a loop: is affixed an ice cube against the lobe so that it does not bleed. “So do not hesitate to bring out his gear gloves with reflective strip, socks, caps and headbands.
Well hydrated. “We use less in winter than in summer, of course, explains our expert. That said, even when it loses water in breathing, therefore we must remember to drink properly. “How do you know if you’re hydrated enough?”It’s pretty easy, just observe the urine. If they are very yellow, is that you are dehydrated. ”
Eat normally.”It is often said that in winter, you have to eat richer dishes for cold weather. This was true at one time where we worked and where we were out all the time … But right now, I do not think the difference in caloric expenditure is very significant between summer and winter “Gilles continues Goetghebuer.
Gradually enter the effort. This advice applies to all but for a very specific category of people: “For asthmatics, for example, bronchial reactivity is higher in the cold.”
Beware of darkness. During the winter season, the days are shorter. We must therefore redouble vis-à-vis traffic caution. “Wear bright colors with reflective tape. And be very careful, because sometimes when we run, we are focused on its business. ”
In short, no more excuses pushing the door of the house and going romp with the sport, even in winter. And even without training to amputate frostbitten members: in 1911, the team Amundsen did not need to put this learning into practice … and the temperatures were much lower than ours.

High visibility vest becomes mandatory in Germany

From 1 July 2014, the Germany imposes reflective vest to motorists, but in Italy it is compulsory to wear it for 10 years. Germany has finally decided to require that high visibility vests for German motorists. Reflective vest, which in Italy is compulsory to wear when they leave the car in the evening, from, next July will be monitored by German police on all cars. But how is it that Germany, a model of efficiency and safety of the infrastructure, is around 10 years than in Italy?

Also required for tourists but only by car – It ‘Steno that Germany and Switzerland, among the European countries that are more efficient road safety one of their icon, are still the only one of the few not to impose high visibility vests for drivers. While Switzerland, in fact, will only continue to recommend to drivers in Germany will become mandatory hold drive from 1 July 2014 and triggered the obligation for those who pass the borders of Germany only for the holidays. A problem that should not worry too much motorists Italians, since we have the vest is compulsory equipment since 2004 in Italy. While here, however, is mandatory to wear it if they leave the car in the event of bad weather or poor visibility (Art.162 of the Security Council), Germany motorists will not be able to show it to the police during routine road checks will risk a fine. The German obligation to keep it on board but oddly is not extended to bikers and campers.

How to be the vest reflective – The vest (or reflective braces) high visibility must bear the CE mark and the symbol of the UNI EN 471, which lays down the characteristics for work clothes police and professionals roadworks. In Italy it is essential to wear, for example in case of a breakdown, not only to avoid a fine of 39 Euros and 2 points less on the license but for their own safety. The ideal would be to have one for each passenger transported, because in case of an accident everyone should be able to leave the car and take cover in total safety, even if the Highway Code takes into account the only driver in the event of a breakdown. Have at least two ready and not in the trunk is crucial (see the instructions to avoid ending up killed on the highway).

Each country is a standards se – It ‘really curious to note that in Europe the application of standards is so varied as to oblige those who cross the border frequently to know the traffic regulations of each country. The high visibility jacket is mandatory in almost all the European Union except in Switzerland, where these are the mandatory daytime running lights. The same applies to Bosnia-Herzegovina, while in Ukraine the headlights are compulsory day only during the winter, unlike Portugal, Belarus, Greece and the UK where it is recommended the use of headlights during the day. Enclosed you will find a map of the European countries where it is legal requirement to carry a high visibility vest.