Pedestrian to move in the left shoulder, and the dark, dusk, and in poor visibility conditions, use a reflector safety vest or a light source. Needed is a reflector in the city streets as street lighting is not everywhere adequate.
“On the left of the road to go, because people see an oncoming vehicle and caring for it to refrain from,” explained Head of Service Highways Agency traffic growing pressure Ellenberger Traffic Act rules and regulations.
The Road Administration reminds to everybody that the highway at the pedestrian to move in the left shoulder, and the dark, dusk, and in poor visibility conditions, use a reflector safety vest or a light source. Needed is a reflector in the city streets as street lighting is not everywhere adequate.
“On the left of the road to go, because people see an oncoming vehicle and caring for it to refrain from,” explained Head of Service Highways Agency traffic growing pressure Ellenberger Traffic Act rules and regulations.
According to him, this rule does not apply to cyclists, who have to move to the right side of the road. “However, it applies to everyone – pedestrians, evening darkness sörkijatele, cyclists, as well as, for example, rulluisutajaile – obliged to dark reflector safety vest or a light made visible,” said Ellenberger.
The Road Administration also shares this fall 5300 in cooperation with the police to road safety vests for cyclists, bike kodarahelkurit 6800 and 2240 sets of bicycle white or red light.
As every autumn Road Administration agrees, in addition, began the school year for all students of the first liiklusaabitsad. In co-operation with the police divided into a first-grade students and teachers in over 14 000 primary, which helps explain the important traffic rules. Primer feels as a child, parent and teacher of wisdom about how to behave in everyday traffic situations, and what to do if another road user to behave erratically. There is also talk of how important it is to make yourself visible in the dark, and you must know the bike.
In 2012, moved by a pedestrian was killed in a collision during the 16 blind pedestrians navigate, 13 of them outside built-up. This year, four have died in the dark, the injured 48 pedestrians with reflective clothing and pedestrian collisions are the number of early autumn arrives again on the rise.
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Training outside with your safety vest
Winter racing is gaining popularity. For this to be nice, choose appropriate clothing and accessories is essential.
According runner Pierre Reveille, who participated in the 1984 Olympic Games, one of the most important rules concerning the holding of a winter runner is primarily to avoid cotton. “Cotton absorbs water, keeps moisture and rubbed on the body. It is much more comfortable with merino wool garments, a high-performance natural fiber or synthetic fibers, “explains Reveille, now coach and owner of the shop Endurance. A safety vest preference is three layers: basic, intermediate and shell.
How to know if you’re dressed too? “Once outside, if the rider is not afraid before starting his training is that his clothing is not suitable for the current temperature. Inevitably, in the effort, it will be too hot. ”
Someone who was introduced to the race and wishing to equip themselves from head to feet in winter must provide a budget of approximately $ 500.
For shoes, the marathon runner suggests three options: cleats, shoes Gore-Tex (a waterproof and windproof) or shoes four seasons and ventilated, which require good socks. Removable crampons may be required when the surfaces are very icy. “Cleats or not is really a matter of personal choice,” said Pierre Reveille. Merino wool socks with pads are preferred.
For hands and head, it is better to keep some options. One can start the race with gloves that are covered with mittens, a hat and a hood that is worn in combination. In the effort, when body heat takes over the cold, the rider can remove a layer. There are also convertible gloves with fingers covering to protect from the wind.
“We must remember that we must run face vehicle and not the reverse,” insists Mr. Reveille. And although most of running clothes have reflective tape, it is important to bring a flashing element to attract the attention of motorists. In winter, as the daylight period is shortened, the rider must ensure that it is visible at all times.
Mr. Léveillé recommend taking a coat lightest windproof possible and to instead work with the lower layers “Too thick and insulating shell will only be useful for a few weeks in the year as if the rider opts for a light shell windproof well, he can use at least three seasons, provided he carries basic and intermediate layers well suited to the climate. This is a better investment. ”
The first two layers, basic and intermediate, must be adjusted to the body, allow air circulation and be adapted to the intensity of the effort of the rider. Given their high price and the many opportunities in the market, the advice of a specialist is recommended to ensure adequate buy reflective clothing.
Winter challenges abound in Quebec, and the offer meets the aspirations of runners of all levels as well as families. To facilitate the selection of one or more challenges in running the Courir.org site offers a calendar those groups. Fancy a first race this winter?
Winter time: pedestrians beware crossing the street
Between November and January; twenty more pedestrians without reflective clothing die crushed because of the lack of light.
This is a consequence of the transition to winter time: between November and January, 20 more pedestrians are killed every month on the roadside. To warn about this unknown phenomenon, Prevention Maid launched on November 3 an awareness campaign.
Since with winter time, it’s dark in the morning by the time we start at school and at night when you get home from work.
This is precisely the morning and evening, after dark, the majority of accidents occur from November to January: pedestrians without reflective accessories are less visible effect when they pass or they walk on the roadside.
The time change does have an impact on health?
“One day, I wanted through a country road. A car came with a bang. It was winter and I was dressed in black. Fortunately, it was just at the start of the walkway so I was back, “testified Chloe who lives in Paris testifies micro Europe1.”In the country, there is not much floor lamp, so I’m with my phone into flashlight mode and I’m doing great signs,” said the young woman.
But the “flashlight” technique Chloe is not the most appropriate as it may, on the contrary, blind the driver. There are much more effective steps by Sophie Fegueux, medical adviser for highway safety like trying to put lighter clothes or brighter colors or better to have retro-reflective tape. And for cyclists, have a reflective vest.
But not everything is a matter of pedestrians and motorists two wheel drivers should slow down especially when they move from a well-lit area to a darker space. It is, indeed, at that time that was the most difficult to distinguish pedestrians.
Québec city request pedestrian wear reflective vest
Chantal Lévesque / Metro Vela Québec believe that the City should raise awareness among other regulations prohibiting pedestrians with reflective clothing on bike paths.
Entered into force in December, a regulation that bans electric scooters, joggers and pedestrians cycle paths seems unknown to the population deplores Vela Québec.
“I always see electric scooters driving on the tracks, says the CEO of Vela Québec, Suzanne Laree. Obviously, there are people who do not know [that the rules have changed] or who ignore the rules. ”
Laree also believes that the City should raise awareness of the new regulations.
The settlement comes “confirm the need to make available the Montreal cycling network to key users for whom it is primarily intended and designed: inline skaters and cyclists,” according to the City.
Wheelchairs, motorized mobility aids and some electric bikes are also permitted.
The regulation also clarifies the definition of an electric scooter, which is no longer allowed on bike paths throughout the city.
Tickets are also provided for those who do not obey the rules: $ 30 to $ 50 for a first offense, $ 50 to $ 100 for a second offense and $ 100 to $ 200 for any subsequent offense.
The Police Department of the City of Montreal (SPVM) is claimed to have asked officers with reflective element not to give tickets under this regulation until September. Agents are instead encouraged to give verbal warnings.
“When there is a change to a regulation or new regulation, we ask the police, of course, to exercise judgment in the application, and asked a kind of buffer period, said the Inspector André Durocher, of Highway safety Division. There may always be exceptions where we will issue [an offense], but generally asks to not issue. ”
For Suzanne Laree, the real security issue, it is the electric scooters. “There is a security issue here, which is not the case with pedestrians. [Pedestrian], it’s annoying, but not dangerous, she believes. I’m not against electric scooters, but in bike lanes, it does not work. This is a vehicle that is bigger and heavier than a bike and goes faster.
For Zvi Leve, Montreal Bike Coalition, pedestrians in reflective vest should not necessarily be banned from cycling trails. He does not believe that the law will be applied to them. “I do not think the crackdown will work. Rather find a way to live together, he considers. I do not see how it will be applied. “
Reflective clothing for Trekking in rain or snow
In the presence of rain and snow likely, footwear and appropriate reflective clothing is advised.
More than 150 volunteers in eight service points, make operating the various local Assemblies of Red Cross in Navarra are launched on the occasion of the 2nd Javierada 2015.
The device will start on Friday at 17.00. The Bank and 19.00 finish passes on Saturday.
In the presence of rain and snow likely, footwear and appropriate clothing with reflective tape is advised. Last year, in the second Javierada, assistance was provided to 371 people.
The second Javierada 2015 will, like the first, with logistical and operational contribution of Red Cross. More than 150 people attend to pilgrims distributed in 7 permanent posts and 1 Mobile (mountain route Aranguren-Lumbier) and through 10 ambulances.
Operating the 2nd Javierada will begin with the opening of the first aid station on Friday, at 17:00 hours in San Isidro del Pinar, in the Bank, and will be closed in Javier, after the celebration of Mass and return operation in the day on Saturday.
Each station has health and communications technicians with necessary for cure and massage voltage tap, attention to people with diabetes, fainting, and assist in any emergency that may arise reflective materials personnel, lifeguards, massage.
The main mission of this operation is to ensure the safety of participants in terms of forecasting risks and minimize them and ensuring prompt action if any
In 2014 the first Javierada Red Cross assists 1,247 people attended. Last year, in the second Javierada, 371 attentions were paid.
Facts about the positions of attention can be followed through the web www.chinareflective.org.
Trekking tips
Each person must bring their own pace, not imposing it. During the trip, wear reflective clothing. Do not wear clothes too tight, especially in underwear and pants; jersey’s broad and long (better bring two thin one thick).
During cold and presence of rain or snow, use suitable safety vest and footwear for low temperatures, and protect the face and head covering her mouth to prevent entry of cold air into the lungs.
Eat properly during the trip with light foods easily digested and absorbed, rich in calories like nuts, oranges, chocolate or energy bars, making the biggest meal at the end of the stage and hydrated along the way.
Some method to prevent brain damage
If in the next day someone comes and makes the move to give a cylinder of green paper and let stand case. Surely this is a person who is wearing reflective clothing participating in the campaign that launched the Brain Injury Association of Burgos (Adacebur) with the theme takes over. Watch your brain. This group proposes that Burgos know what acquired brain injury, how it happens and what can be done to prevent a serious condition suffering in the city about two thousand people, approximately.
The president of the group, Rosa Maria Herero, yesterday asked the cooperation of the people to catch the relay, read the information that’s inside and share a picture of the time in social networks. “We want people to upload a photo to Face book or Twitter with relay, to send it by Whats App or send us an email to telling noting his experience and his commitment to improving your health, then pass it to another person, “said psychologist Association of Immaculate Garcia.
Among the relays are tips on how to protect themselves from a stroke or a stroke and traumatic brain injury, which are by tumors and anoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain), the two most common causes of acquired brain injury. In the first case, it is to control the risk factors associated with blood-hypertension, high bad cholesterol, diabetes, alcohol- or drug use, avoid a sedentary lifestyle and obesity taking a diet rich in vegetables and fruits and correct stress, anxiety and depression since, according Adacebur ‘depressive moods tend to thicken the blood, making it more thrombogenic. “To prevent head injuries give advice to car drivers (using the belt, avoid distractions, keeping the safety distance, observe traffic regulations and not to drive after consuming alcohol and drugs) and motorcycle (wearing a helmet at all trips, light-colored clothing and safety vest) and pedestrians (walking left at cross road and always properly marked places). If you don’t have a safety vest, a normal reflective tape for runner can also be used in this situation.
It is called acquired brain injury the result of a sudden injury to the brain that produces many consequences of physical, mental and sensory character that develop abnormal sensory perception, cognitive disorders and altered emotional plane. Those affected complain of neglect suffered by the administration and that after being treated at the time of stroke or trauma or tumor and go home and nobody pays any rehabilitation aid and has to run on their own. That’s where Adacebur plays an important role, providing neuropsychological patient care, psychological support to those affected and their families, occupational therapy, speech therapy and physiotherapy.
In the 25 relay bright green and handmade by people Adacebur they will also find a card “with sufficient size to carry in your wallet,” according remarked the Councilor for Health, Marisol Carrillo, which supports this campaign, with the data of the association and five recommendations to prevent brain damage acquired.
Nuclear waste: quarantined for 100,000 years
Or we have no chemistry with the nuclear, waste management arises in the same terms, often long. The solution of the landfill made his hole.
Talk about a hole? The well-maintained road shivering through a bleak undulating dusted with snow. Chilled groves in morning freeze emerge from the fog. We leave the Haute-Marne to Meuse. Bore, its harsh hundred souls, is not far? The hole, either.
A network of tunnels that run 490 meters underground for which ANDRA (National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management) never ceases to move heaven and earth, not without success. Prospects for increased economic benefits, guarantees of scientific experiments sized surface facilities and erased the Cage project (industrial center for geological storage) is poised to establish itself permanently in this disinherited landscape.
The site is discreet, not secret. “The 30,000 m3 excavated to dig 1,200 meters of galleries are negligible compared to the volumes resulting from the operation of a mine, gelatinized Jacques Delay, chief scientist of the site in 1999 and 2010. This is the ramble of deviation of Joinville nearby. And these experimental galleries are open to visitors. For security reasons, evacuation particular, the number of people is limited to 49, including staff, and all the participants should be equip with safety vest, so it is never more than six visitors at a time. ”
No hanging of the room, but a lamp room where waiting patiently the happy faces of the lucky ones who will not stay on the floor. We put on the robe of Bore: helmet, front, reflective clothing, relocation and device APEVA belt.
The elevator snorts. After eight minutes of a descent rocked by the grinding of metal cables, the cage opens on a network of animated galleries where pedestrians are not a priority. The air is as fresh from the bottom or near the bottom of surface air: “The natural temperature of the rock is 23.2 °. The ventilation system 15 lowers in winter. ”
Sea
“The outdoor temperature in contact with the rock of nuclear high-level waste continues hydro geologist, is 90 °, which corresponds to the Temperature meter produced by a waste package generating a thermal power of 500 watts. The decay curve is known. After 90, the vapor phase is dominating. If modeling is becoming more complex, the properties of clay which does not change after 140 ° leave the margin. Its conductivity is much lower than that of granite. ”
His hand touches the grayish rock “His 35 to 45% clay, 30 to 40% limestone, 20% silica (sand), 1 to 2% pyrite and 1 to 3% of organic materials are the product of an old and deep sea 165 million years. The sedimentary rocks of all geological epochs have compacted. ”
If it has not solemn nobility of marble, argillite offers the guarantees of a perpetual concession deemed inviolable: “Nuclear waste, in 2025, will be buried 490 meters underground, in the heart of a layer between 422 and 552 m. Characterized by its fine particle size and homogeneity, this rock astonishes by its elasticity and plasticity. It is this deformation is measured. Pressure 500 m rock above our heads is 12.7 Map, of the order of that which is exerted on the hull of a submarine at 1,200 / 1,300 m deep. ”
Instinctively, his eyes alight on the supporting posts.”The sliding hangers have closed 20 cm from the opening. Most of the deformation took place in the first fortnight. This elastic deformation followed by plastic deformation. Deferred, this creep is not reversible. The oldest galleries, aged ten, are closing today at a speed of 0.1 mm per month. The galleries are pendiculaires to study the maxima and minima of the horizontal thrust of the training. ”
It takes the granules in a bucket “Mennonite is clay which swells in humidity. Natural, after saturation impermeable, resistant to pressure, that is a sealing device which ensures at the same time stabilizing and healing the rock damaged by the excavation. ”
It is at the end of the tunnel. We saw the reflective strip from our team member’s vest, It was in the air, contaminated with the certainties of our guide.
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.
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.
Czech Police call on drivers wear reflective vest to ensure safety
On 15 November the Czech Police launched a nationwide pre-emptive action aimed at increasing the visibility of motorists. The subject of traffic controls is informing drivers of the requirement to wear a reflective vest, which is also legally obligatory equipment in the vehicle. If a motorist in solving technical defect or traffic accident the car will perform, they must vest dress, why should he have on hand and not in the luggage compartment. The event aims but in addition to a reminder of the obligations and alerts the security of the vehicle crew. Police officers in this preventive action are to transmit a controlled drivers more reflective clothing, which is designed specifically for other passengers in the car.
During the thirteen days took place in the Central Region a total of nine events of this type, which was distributed to a total of 442 reflective accessories. On the part of drivers could be heard very positive response. Another roadside checks related to the action on the visibility of motorists will run until February next year.