Category: Road safety

Reflective vest will avoid many accidents at the wheel

The work begins to bear fruit, and more will give. The Villanova Local Police officer José Luis has been teaching classes in schools and institutes in the municipality for six years and has managed to ensure that children act as advocates of road safety for their parents. They have learned the lesson and do not hesitate to require adults to put on their belts, not to talk on the phone at the wheel and to do the exercise of counting 1,001, 1,002 and 1,003 before starting a STOP. And if you play the role of pedestrians already know that it is mandatory to put on the reflective vest, which better to wear light clothing if it is night and always walk on the left.

 

“Someone who does not wear a belt begins to say pi-pi-pi, so tell him that he or she will. These small machines are going to be xenia aeration, “says the agent.

But his work has not yet ended, far from it. Maui, as the boys call him, has proposed to implant in Villanova the “Generation 00: zero accidents, zero victims”. This is the title that has given to a project that will develop throughout this course. In addition to continuing with the informative lectures and practical classes with the mobile park that gives in these cases the Provincial Traffic Headquarters, his idea includes calling a drawing competition on road safety and instituting a book of signatures in which public entities and Private companies to write their commitment in this matter, among other initiatives.

 

Six years learning

The objective abounds the official, is to continue deepening training and awareness that prevention can save many lives; and those children who were released in Children and who pass to the institute already have a long way traveled thanks to the classes with Maui.

 

The police take safety vest returned last week to the school of San Roué de Croon and before it was in San Miguel and Julio Cambia. In the next few weeks he will go to Termed and Bain, and he plans to take these didactic sessions to the center of attention to people with autism and does not rule out doing it with adults as well, because it never hurts to remind them that Safety are to be met.

 

José Luis knows how to deal with the boys very well and gets them to listen and get the message: “I lost friends in accidents and tell them that there must be zero accidents.”

 

 

Wear safety vest at dangerous night

The Police in safety vest have clarified some of the first data of the investigation that the body clogs team is solving throughout this morning of Friday, when it has been reported the death of a man by abuses on the roads of Navarre.

 

This is O.G.F, a 43-year-old man from Cantabria, who was driving a truck on the N121A, at the height of the town and has been hit by a vehicle that was driving in the direction of Pamplona. The event took place near midnight, about 23.55 hours on Thursday. The driver of the car that has rolled this man was a young man of 19 years, neighbor of the municipality.

 

As confirmed by the police force, the darkness of the night has been able to have part of ‘responsibility’ in the facts. Early indications indicate that the man, who was driving a truck, has parked the vehicle on the right-hand side of the road. Apparently, he wanted to cross the national road where the events took place on the other side of the road, where there is a gas station, but he doesn’t wear any reflective vest.

 

The driver of the car may not have seen the trucker crossing the road on foot, a fact that has caused the vehicle’s impact, at speed, against him. This has been the state in which the car has been:

The same police sources confirmed that the deceased did not wear reflective clothing. For his part, the boy who drove has been negative in all tests that have been practiced, both alcohol and drug. It has been unharmed after the deadly accident on Friday.

Until the place of the events have been patrols of the Provincial Police and Road Safety of Pamplona. This is the second road accident in less than 24 hours in Navarre, as this same Thursday reported the death of a 19-year-old, who was leaving the road descending from San Cristobel.

 

 

The rules to follow to keep road safety

They land in our streets!

“Overboard”, electric scooter, mini-bike… These motorized wheeled vehicles, usually electrical democratize and it’s a safe bet that they will multiply on public roads. But what are the rules governing their use? How to keep the road safety?

 

These vehicles require no registration.

For an electric bike reaches a maximum speed of 25km / h, it does not take either. By cons when it exceeds the power of 250w and we exceed 25km / h, and is akin to a moped, the registration is mandatory as the safety vest.

 

Absolute respect for pedestrians

Often semi-pedestrian area, road landscape merges with sidewalks and pedestrians remain in these circumstances there priority! You are punished if you make the Fungi over 6km / h on sidewalks and pedestrian areas! In addition to walking pace, electric scooter, “PT” and electric skateboard should use bike paths when they exist and if they do not exist, it will be on the road with cars.

 

The equipment

It is not mandatory but recommended. Knee pads, elbow pads, helmets, protective wrist are needed. A reflective vest is not a luxury.

Good trip and be safe!

Visibility on the road means safety

In the darker season there is an increased risk of accidents for pedestrians. Poor visibility, changing weather conditions and dark clothing are the main cause of accidents at dusk. The Austrian Road Safety Board gives tips on how to do in the winter months most visible and prevents accidents.

 

Although pedestrians, brightly lit car from afar, they themselves are often perceived contrast, only very late of automotive handlebars. Simple tools are bright and equipped with reflectors clothing. Pedestrian wearing clothing with reflectors can be seen for a motorist with low beam already from 150 meters away. Pedestrians wearing dark clothing, however, can only be seen from 20 to 30 meters, that is often too late to react accordingly.

 

Danger on the crosswalk

The poor visibility is particularly at crosswalks cause of many accidents. “In the dark, still many a protection path leads a nondescript wallflower – with increased risk of pedestrian studies show a much lower at night stopping readiness of the vehicle driver before pedestrian crossings than in daylight In poorly lit pedestrian crossings of the handlebar will to pedestrians is to give priority, even.. A third less present as well-lit at therefore important for survival for pedestrians equation is. “Visibility is safety,” explains Florien Schneider, prevention consultant in the PRR.

 

Reflectors set standards

Final so the mousy revelers! Not only the optimum illumination of the protection path itself can be lifesaving, his customers can actively help to protect their lives in the dark: With reflective material clothing at night pedestrians are much more visible and therefore safer on the road.

 

While walking, Nordic walking or even when working in the road space (snow shovels, hedge trimming, etc.) it is recommended to make them “visible”. “Think of the reflective material not only when you are along rural roads as a pedestrian on the road, but also in urban areas, because 90 percent of pedestrian accidents occur in the villages We therefore recommend that all pedestrians and cyclists. Apply to your own protective light-colored clothing and reflective materials, “concludes Schneider.

 

Safety tips

Clothe yourself in twilight and in the dark as bright as possible!

Reflectors should radiate around to make pedestrians also visible from the side. They do not cost much and bring an enormous increase in safety at dusk and in the dark.

Reflective clothing alone is useless if you do not behave safety conscious!

Search on crossing always make eye contact with the driver!

Reflective vest: pedestrians, pay more attention

Pedestrians are asked to be vigilant at the transition to winter time on Sunday, October 27. Need to wear reflective vest when you on outside. “Every year, during the transition to winter time, is recorded a peak accident rate and mortality which pedestrians are the first victims”, recalls the Finisher prefecture in a statement.

 

This peak of road accidents is found in the morning between 8 am and 10 am and dusk, between 17 am and 19 pm. In 2012, France, 36% of pedestrian deaths occurs between November and January. “The road safety therefore draws the attention of all road users, particularly the most vulnerable, the need to be extra careful on the occasion of the time change on Sunday 27 October.”

 

Road safety advises pedestrians to wear bright clothing, “or better yet, matching retro-reflective tape.” For cyclists, it is mandatory to wear Reflective safety vest if they run at night outside a metropolitan area. The day when visibility is low, it is recommended to wear it.

To school without fear. Children in Olomouc accompany undergraduates

Unique service for parents who fear their children alone venturing bike to school without reflective vest, started recently in Olomouc Ride2sCool Association in cooperation with local Palacky University (UP). It offers children accompaniment in the form of college volunteers, who little bikers along the way they oversee.
Olomouc Ride2sCool Association in cooperation with Palacky University offers escort children in the form of college students who oversee the little bikers not only the way to school, but also in the opposite direction. | Photo: Tomas Frait, MF DNES
Nontraditional school cyklodoprovod association began offering in mid-May. Accompaniment, which provide students of the Faculty of Physical Culture UP, to which should, in future, to join their colleagues from other disciplines, yet uses eight schoolchildren.
Instructors have the morning to pick up their so-called collection points are in the village Křelov-Břuchotín the city in the New World, on New Street and Litovelské street.
“Soon they will be added post Neředín where he signed one girl. She found herself instructors, he would like to ride with them. Regarding schools, the project has so far involved Elementary School and St. Ursula Zeyerova, “explained a member of the association Ride2sCool Jan Hoffmann from the Faculty of Physical Culture UP with the fact that the first two weeks of pay for accompanying parents, now paid seven crowns per ride.
“Our goal was that the service was more expensive than a child’s ticket for public transport. Otherwise, the whole principle works so that parents accompany children ordered through the reservation system, “he explained.
The association was inspired by Australia and the United States
Instructors for the safety of cyclists handing out small before every ride safety vest.
“The condition of the wheel correspond parents. They must also equip children helmet, “said Hoffmann. The association was inspired by her school bus, which tie the children to school, for example in the USA.
“We decided to bike so that the children could before and after school stretch. The bike is also, of course, more environmentally friendly mode of transportation than the bus, “explained Hoffmann.
A similar road safety service is currently only operates in Australia. In the Antipodes, however, escorting fend parents who alternate in the heats.
“Maybe to do once we arrive in our country and our service is no longer needed,” said a member of the association.

Road Safety should be concerned

There is a story that has gone largely unnoticed, members who taught the Spanish Chair of Road Safety and Mobility of the International Institute of Political Science call for modification of the General Rules of the road to avoid the “impunity” of cyclists. To prevent this impunity his brainy solution is mandatory to wear a helmet, safety vest with a number identifying the rider and a safe. All this arguing that we defend a risk to the safety of pedestrians and other users of the public highway.

The truth is I do not know where to start, it’s funny that people still think or believe that everything can be solved on the basis of spending money and to punish. This only makes me think (or think badly), this chair is financed by a company that can benefit from some of these rules proposed. It comes to my head the study that was done on all the dirt that had coins, carrying germs, and you wore when you saw that the digging had commissioned a study known Credit Card Company.

It saddens me to see that after studying all the problems that exist or may occur in the street by the coexistence of cars, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. the rider is identified as guilty, because I guess you will have arrived at this conclusion after making a good study, documenting, looking accident statistics, which becomes a serious study.

Well in my humble opinion I think they are wrong, not everything is arranged to bleed the user base. It was taking too long to leave someone to suggest somehow taxing bicycles now they are in a sweet moment, the use of bicycles has increased and revenue must be removed somehow. If you really want a good coexistence among users of public roads have to start by investing in education, and I mean in just teaching a list of standards to be met by each affected party, should be taught to respect and sharing space .

Besides that you have a safe and an enrollment generates me much doubt who or how to do it, what if your son driving with his bike on the sidewalk also need insurance and registration ?, from what age? Are the long pedestrians in reflective clothing will also ensure?

I repeat, that is not the end of this chair or this study, but I smell me wrong, I do not think they want to solve a problem, if not benefit from a temporary situation for trouble where none exist.

Road safety: new measures to cut down road deaths

Avignon Friday brings an interdepartmental committee on road safety (IRB), the first in four years, to try to end the increased mortality on French roads.

Avignon meeting this Friday, Oct. 2 an interdepartmental committee on road safety (IRB), the first in four years, to adopt a new plan of action to stem the rise in mortality on French roads, up 4.6% since the beginning of the year. In the viewfinder: two-wheelers, with the establishment of a technical visit (only at the time of sale for the moment). This measure is already cringe bikers, explaining that they pamper their motorcycles. It targets more scooters in poor condition or have been derided, so that teens kill themselves on real wheelchairs bombs.

Equipment should also be imposed. For now, only the helmet is mandatory. To this should be added the jacket with reflective tape, back protector and gloves.
No generalization of the limitation to 80 km / h on national

For motorists, the government could encourage the installation of black boxes. This concerns, for example, acceleration and braking to determine if they are sudden, speed cornering. These data would not be used for law enforcement but for insurers to know who is really responsible in an accident.

The French are mostly unfavorable to it.
Employees will have to assume their mistakes

A measure choosy seems to be: the late-pass rights for PV in companies. Currently, in many cases, employees flashed for speeding with a vehicle registered in the name of society pay their PV, but do not see withdraw from points on their license. Often, their employer does not communicate their names to the authorities.

A practice that the Ministry of Interior wants to see disappear. This would be for the company to keep a log book of the vehicle where, every day, every driver would be clearly identified. And the safety equipment like reflective vest and helmet will be well check. In case of non compliance with this rule, the company écoperait a heavy fine. This would limit the differences. You should know that 10-15% of the radar flashes concern company vehicles.

Two wheel vehicle road safety check in college

In order to perform a check of the two wheels at the time of the return of the colleges, Gendarmerie and municipal police have again pooled their resources. Bicycles and mopeds were monitored in three locations: in front of the college entrance Sourly, Martyrs Square Beaus sire primarily for college and Wilson Avenue in front of the St. Ursula College.

If both wheels were fewer than usual in this chilly morning, 45 inspections were performed, and 18 cyclists and moped riders were in default, or 40% of the controls!
Among the cyclists in safety vest fault controlled, five have already been in December. Yet one does not turn its light on the front, while she works, another does not carry the yellow vest while he was in his pocket.

Following these preventive controls, parents must present the bike repaired at the municipal police. Violators of bicycle safety obligations incur a fine of € 17 per offense; before lighting and default back are two offenses!

This prevention operation aims to raise awareness of the obligations outstanding on two wheels, like having a brake system in good condition and at night has lighting at the front and rear. And wear reflective clothing (yellow vest) when traveling outside urban areas, even for upcoming by the cycle track. Recall that the helmet if it is not mandatory bicycle is recommended safety equipment.

The objective is primarily to raise awareness of the need to be seen. Whether one is a pedestrian or cyclist, few people are aware of not being sufficiently visible to motorists. And do not do like this girl, holding her cell phone in hand-lamp function, instead of the light before!

Young councilors, and elected officials that accompany them, have also mobilized.

A good way to understand the security and prevention of law enforcement missions and are to be ambassadors to their peers for more road safety.

Safe way to school: student road security

Action “Safe school”: Tele Columbus supports graders in Berlin

Just in time for Back to School in Berlin launched the Tele Columbus AG, the third largest German cable operator, its action “Safe way to school 2015”.

At 31 Berlin schools received 1900 school starters to her first day of school a reflective vest for more road safety. With a coloring book provided by Tele Columbus, the first year can also entertaining way basic tips for more road safety acquire? Among all participating schools Tele Columbus raffled off as part of a drawing competition beyond 5 times 100 Euros for the class fund. A winning picture from over 200 submissions came from Friedrichsfelde, from the first year of the Carolyn Begler Friedrichsfelder primary school. You and Eire Class can look forward to 100 Euros for the class fund.

With the initiative “Safe way to school 2015” to the ABC-shooters is made fit for their school. As a regional cable operator and a close partner of the housing industry locally Tele Columbus had written a total of 395 schools in the East German states. 110 schools participated in the campaign and received a total of Tele Columbus 4650 safety vest and 7000 crayon sets and coloring books. The coloring book was designed by hand by employees of the cable operator. Tele Columbus supplied in Berlin around 400 000 households with television, internet and telephone via the cable connection.

“Like all parents we value the safety of our school children very important,” explains Stefan Beberweil, Tele Columbus Chief Commercial Officer. “Because has been proven that early education reduces the traffic accident rate among children, we want to assist with this action. We wish all the children have fun with the coloring books and always a safe way to school! “