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Police actions to prevent accidents involving pedestrians

Over the coming week, road policemen across the country will step up their actions to prevent road accidents involving pedestrians!

 

The traffic police will act on a national level between 6 and 12 November, under the coordination of the Romanian Police Road Directorate, to save lives and to prevent road events involving pedestrians.

 

Activities are aimed primarily at combating pedestrian traffic violations.

 

Particular attention will be paid to areas with road potential risk as well as to those where road events occurred due to these deviations.

 

Romanian police recommend pedestrians:

To engage in crossing the public road only through the specially arranged places (on the pedestrian crossing) and in the green color of the electric traffic light, where there are.

 

To ensure that, even when crossing the pedestrian crossing, it can safely be crossed (the vehicles are stopped before the pedestrian marker, especially when the road has several lanes on the way).

 

Never cross the pedestrian marker, regardless of the emergency at any given time.

 

Not to move on the roadside, and where there is no pavement or paved road (predominantly in the countryside), move on the left side of the road as close as possible to the edge of the road.

 

In bad weather or dark, wear open-color reflective clothing and/or reflective materials and reflective fabrics to be visible.

 

Not to cross the front or back of public transport when they are stopped at the station.

 

Children should not be allowed to cross themselves – they are unpredictable and can not appreciate distances and speeds correctly. Do not forget! – children imitate the road behavior of adults.

 

Vehicle drivers must reduce travel speed and travel with great care.

Five tips for choosing good work clothes in construction

Protection on all fronts: that is the most important requirement for construction work clothing. Strong material that can take a beating, but at the same time is comfortable. Clothing that can be worn by weather and wind, no matter how cold it gets, but offers enough freedom of movement. What are you paying attention to? Proto gives five tips.

 

Proto knows what good work clothing must meet. Now that autumn is approaching, the company is sharing 5 tips for purchasing work clothes for the winter season.

 

  1. Wear clothing in layers

Wearing different layers of clothing ensures pleasant body temperature and prevents perspiration. This is a common and annoying problem because working on construction is strenuous and requires a lot of the body. Good work clothing protects the body against external and internal factors.

 

Good work clothing consists of:

 

A moisture-wicking substance on the skin, which absorbs perspiration

A fleece jacket or sweater that provides pleasant warmth

– water-resistant clothing

 

Perspiration moisture feels uncomfortable but is also unhealthy. The combination of moisture and cold makes people on the construction site more susceptible to diseases such as colds or flu. This is eliminated by the moisture-wicking layer. The water-repellent layer ensures that no moisture from outside enters the body so that your employees stay warm for a long time.

 

Of course, your employees can always adjust the number of layers to the situation. You can easily exchange a warm winter jacket for a sturdy softshell. And in extreme cold, wearing thermal underwear is an important extra layer that protects the body.

 

Wearing cold-resistant gloves, a hat and padded work shoes or work boots are additional measures for working safely outside during the winter season.

 

  1. Choose sustainable materials

There is sufficient work clothing for construction on the market, but not every material is the same. At Proto, we choose Cordura or kevlar workwear, two extremely strong fabrics that can withstand a lot and have a long life. This not only increases sustainability, but also the safety of your employees.

 

Pants with extra reinforcement on the knees or in the crotch increase the lifespan even more. In addition, comfort naturally also plays a major role in the purchase of work clothing. A lot of work is done on the knees in construction. Trousers with knee pockets in which knee pads can be placed provide optimum comfort and are certainly worth considering.

 

  1. Visibility

When people and machines work together, visibility is an absolute necessity. In bad weather, which often occurs in the winter, or night work, this is often mandatory. Visibility reflective clothing makes a direct contribution to safety on the construction site. Of course, you can opt for safety vests with reflective tapes, but when your employees come into contact with vehicles on the construction site more often or structurally, it makes sense to invest in clothing in which visibility is integrated. Your people forget their jacket less quickly than their jacket, so you minimize the risk of accidents.

 

  1. Choose suitable work clothing

Many workwear for construction consists of stretch elements. Ideal, because stretch gives a lot of freedom of movement, warmth and is comfortable. Because work clothing with stretch fits nicely to the body, it looks neat and trendy. Even more important is that well-connected clothing contributes to safety. Too wide sleeves give the risk of catching on something, this also applies to too wide or too long work trousers.

 

A fitting session for the right clothing size is a must when purchasing work clothing for construction. At Proto you not only have the option of an extensive fitting session for your employees, but you can also easily change the clothing. That way, no-one with inappropriate clothing will ever have to leave the building site.

 

  1. Take standards into account

The standards for work clothing may differ per construction site. Coordinate well with the client which standards must be met. Standards are important because they are directly related to the safety of your employees.

Road traffic reflective clothing in DIN standard wear

Reflective clothing makes cyclists and pedestrians more visible to motorists in the dark. When buying, attention should be paid to compliance with the DIN standard.

 

In winter, pedestrians and cyclists are better as visible as possible, so that motorists notice them in time. The Tüv Süd advises adding reflective material on clothing and safety accessories.

 

Buyers should pay attention to the standard DIN EN 13356. The surfaces on school bags, in turn, bear the designation DIN 58124. Anyone who wears a safety vest over their clothing as a cyclist uses products with the EN ISO 20471 standard. Anyone wearing clothing with such reflective tape can be seen at a distance of up to 140 meters.

Roadshow on the security campaign of the ADAC Foundation

The ADAC Foundation is strongly committed to greater safety and visibility on the road and calls in the context of the “security action” to already actively practice the way to school with the children.

 

With the enrollment soon begins for many first graders a new and exciting period of life. Part of this is to master the way to school with all its challenges and to cope with different traffic situations.

 

The ADAC Foundation has put together ten tips that parents can use to help their children become self-employed on their way to school.

 

Practice the way to school several times before enrolling.

Explain why attentive behavior on the road so important is.

Point your child to danger spots.

Explain the dangers of increased collection and delivery around the school.

Train how and where to cross the road properly.

Explain why it is better to use pedestrian crossings and traffic lights use.

If possible, form small groups around the way to school

to master together with other children.

Allow enough time for the way to school.

Let your child wear bright clothes.

Through a safety vest with reflective tape or other reflective clothing

Children are even earlier and better for other road users visible.

Roadshow on safety action – Have fun and knowledge for children and adults

The successful roadshow on the topics of safety and visibility will once again be on the road to children’s and street festivals throughout Germany this year. At five hands-on stations, the children can learn a lot about road safety and give free rein to their creativity in designing a safety vest. Adults can also test their knowledge about safety and visibility.

Police are checking in the schoolyard

No light, no bell, loud music in the ears – Before the Dahlewitzer Herbert Tschäpe high school police checked on Tuesday the bicycles of the students. Many of the wheels were not safe.

 

Tuesday began with a – not always pleasant – surprise for the students of the Herbert Tschäpe secondary school. When they entered the school grounds, the police were already waiting, especially for the cyclists. The Revierpolizisten Manfred Ewert and Uwe Depner checked whether lights, reflectors, and bell are available and work well.

 

Support was provided by the security community Blankenfelde-Mahlow and the prevention team of the police department West. Chief Inspector Ute Streckert and High Commissioner Axel Schugardt distributed reflectors, safety vests, reflective bags made of reflective fabrics, and informational materials to show what a safe bike is all about.

 

Police call out “days of visibility”

Throughout Brandenburg, the police have called the “days of visibility”. Until Thursday, especially cyclists are informed about the risks of the dark season. “People with dark clothes only recognize a car driver from a distance of around 25 meters,” explains Axel Schugardt. With light clothes, it is at least 40 meters. Anyone wearing reflective clothing or light can be seen 140 meters away.

 

Principal Michaela Töpelmann and her fellow teachers Lutz Schwabe and Matthias Stiller are at the school gate. “You know your Pappenheimer,” says Michaela Töpelmann. Most of the 267 students come by bike. Many wear headphones in their ears that play so loud music that they do not notice their surroundings. Others hang their cycling helmet over the handlebar instead of turning it over.

 

30 of the 82 bicycles have defects

The balance of the day: Of 82 controlled bicycles have 30 shortcomings. In most cases, the lighting is broken or not available at all, others do not have the prescribed reflectors front, rear, on the pedals and spokes, yet others lack the bell. A bike was particularly negative. “Apart from brakes, it did not have any safety-relevant parts,” says Axel Schugardt. Revierpolizist Manfred Ewert noted all the shortcomings on lists, which the students should work off.

 

That parents leave their children with such companions on the street, annoys Michaela Töpelmann. “Everything that serves security is good”. The Herbert Tschäpe high school is located directly on the busy L 40th “We have had some accidents here,” says the headmistress. Hot situations between motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians are not uncommon. Whether the action brings something permanent to the police? Michaela Töpelmann hopes.

 

Girls were more insightful

Some students, especially girls, found the action good, the boys were less insightful. Some dropped their bikes on the way. Olaf Lehnhardt, who is responsible for prevention in the Teltow-Fläming Police Inspectorate, wants to take some more breasts in the coming weeks. “I’ll do retraining,” he says. Silvia Fisch, chairman of the security community, is even more rigorous. “My son is not allowed to cycle to school until the light works. Until then he will run. ”

 

safety vests

No question, safety vests are handy. But where to go with the thing in the car?

 

In Germany, the safety vest is not mandatory equipment for private vehicles. However, TÜV Rheinland always recommends wearing this protective reflective clothing in the event of a breakdown – not only in the dark season. The reflective material is already seen from a distance of 150 meters. People without a safety vest recognized by motorists only when they are only 80 meters away.

 

So that the vest is quickly at hand in an emergency, it should be stored indoors, preferably in the glove compartment, under the seat or in the door pockets. When the vests are open in the interior, they can age faster due to solar radiation. The trunk is less suitable for accommodating the vest. First, you have to walk around the car without protection to get to the vest, on the other hand, she could be covered thereby luggage.

 

Approved in Germany west in red, orange and yellow, which comply with the standard 71 DIN EN. For children, there are also other colors with the label DIN EN 1150. The vest is available from about two euros, for example, the ADAC or the TÜV, but also at many gas stations or accessory shops.

 

Traffic will fine pedestrians without a vest on the shoulder

The Ourense society increasingly uses reflective clothing when it comes to walking, especially at night, along the roadside, roads, and tracks, according to the provincial traffic chief, David Llorente, who recalls that a few years ago “I do not know I saw practically nobody with this type of clothes to be seen before the drivers “.

 

But the provincial head of Traffic is not satisfied, especially when so far this year a pedestrian died when walking by the OU-504, on its way through Loiro, without making use of any reflective material. Pretend that no person leaves home to walk, play sports or walk through an area enabled to drive vehicles, without making use of the vest. This Thursday began a campaign (affects all Galicia) to avoid abuses. The initiative involves the distribution of 700 high visibility vests among pedestrians in the province, including pilgrims.

 

The campaign was announced in the Government Sub-delegation by its owner, Emilio González, who was accompanied by David himself and the captain of the Traffic Subsector in Ourense, Ángel Rafael. “The objective is to promote the use of reflective elements, giving protection to pedestrians and vulnerable groups, such as cyclists and motorcyclists,” said González, stressing that citizens when using a road on foot must “ensure that they are being seen by others. ”

 

During the past year, 14 people lost their lives when they were run over by Galician roads, three of them in the province of Ourense.

 

So far this year, another six were killed by a car on Galician roads, one of them in Ourense. To avoid more deadly abuses, the Civil Guard will distribute 400 vests, while the Provincial Traffic Headquarters will deliver another 300 in the different talks that it is carrying out in social centers, schools, neighborhood associations, and social groups to sensitize the population with the sinister ones

 

David recalled that Traffic agents can punish pedestrians who do not use the reflective vest on the road. In this sense, the captain of the Traffic Sub-sector stressed that it is not a matter of sanctioning anyone for the fact that “it is to protect pedestrians, that they do not go out on the road without making use of reflective garments,” he said.

The obligation to have reflective tapes is often ignored

Pedestrians, according to rescuers, cease to wear reflective clothing and break the law. At the same time, drivers are facing sharp sunlight at low times above the horizon or frequent fogs. Since the beginning of the year, 11 pedestrians have died on the roads. And the drivers complain that they don’t see them. The pitfall is really a lot on the roads. The Nova TV crew was also impressed in Climber.

On the way to the night-time control of pedestrians, the TV Nova crew encountered an unexpected obstacle. A flock of sheep ran down the road. Together with the owner, the animals drove to safety.

When the night walkers started, they didn’t have to wait long for the first unmarked one. They found him on the road behind Flagrant. The policeman gave him a reflective tape and arranged it. “It would be perfect if you put it in one of the places facing the road,” the policeman advised the pedestrians.

On the other side of Flagrant, another obstacle awaited, this time the deer. Then the crew, along with the police, missed a young woman returning from the afternoon shift. She had reflective tapes, but on her purse, which covered her arm.

The law instructs pedestrians reflective materials outside the village, but even in cities, they are not 100% visible. In dark clothes, a pedestrian becomes invisible.

“They have the talent to really take dark things into this darkness. It has happened to me a couple of times that I had to win the wheel, that I really saw the man at the last minute. Nova your impressions one of the drivers.

Another trap for the drivers is the morning sun low above the horizon. The addressed drivers agree that it is uncomfortable, sharp and dazzling.

“Over the past year, we have recorded 167 traffic accidents involving pedestrians, of which 47 were pedestrians. It is an increase of 3%,” TV Nova spokeswoman Techno Khabarovsk told TV Nova. Rescuers set off every other day for such excursions.

According to Lena Sikorsky, spokeswoman of the Police Presidium, 11 pedestrians have died since the beginning of this year. Other dozens were seriously injured.

Tragically, 7 out of 10 pedestrian traffic accidents end. According to experts, this happens more frequently in winter, which is related to reduced visibility and dimming. Critical points are the neighborhoods of schools or large businesses that operate in shift operations.

Traffic will find pedestrians who walk on the road without the reflective vest

Pedestrians, without the reflective vest on interurban roads, the next traffic target.

Traffic does not want carelessness on the road. According to what has been known, he wants to end the problems caused by pedestrians traveling on roads. There is already the obligation to wear reflective clothing when we move to invade the asphalt of the road. However, although until now they have turned a blind eye, from now on they will begin to find those who do not use it.

The exhaustive application of the norm will begin in the Autonomous Community of Galilean. A region in which it is often possible to meet the inhabitants of small villages and towns by moving between the urban centers on the roads.

A phenomenon that contributes to this is the dispersion of the population. In the north of Spain, there are usually distances of several hundred meters between the houses. This characteristic makes people walk on the roads in the usual way.

Little traffic, a dangerous excess of confidence

Most of these roads have very little traffic. It may seem that it makes them safer, but nothing is further from reality. The surprise of being with a pedestrian suddenly or a car without noticing it makes us more prone to react in a bad way.

According to the data of the General Directorate of Traffic, last year 135 pedestrians died from being run over, 44 more than in 2017. These victims are those counted in interurban roads and died within 24 hours after the accident.

Most of them occur on roads of the second order, such as those that form the backbone of the Garlic provinces.

Education and awareness

This will be the weapon of the administration, together with the sanctions, to prevent the number of deaths from increasing. In Galilean, a campaign will be held with the objective of raising awareness among residents of the importance of the use of the reflective vest. The vest must have reflective tapes. Another way to help people make use of the reflective vests will be the distribution of 700 units. All of them among the population of the rural nuclei, where they usually walk along the roads.

These measures seek to alleviate the only number that has increased in the statistics of deaths of the past year. We can say that once the results of 2018 are known in terms of traffic victims, only the section of pedestrian abuses on the road has grown.

It should be remembered that this is not a problem only of those who move between towns walking, also it is for those who have a problem with the car on the road such as a puncture or a breakdown. It is in these moments when the wheel is changing or waiting for the crane when the abuses occur.

With reflectors in the dark season

The children learn it in kindergarten or at school and naturally wear reflective tapes or reflective clothing. But what is good for the offspring, to be better seen in the dark, also applies to all other road users. Representatives of city, police and traffic watch informed on Thursday (8.11.) In the Schadenfreude on more security by visibility and invite for Saturday (10.11.) Again.

The motto of the campaign is “Safe through the dark season” because it is very early in the winter time and early in the morning, it will be late. Who then in dark clothes on foot or on the road is very bad for motorists can be seen, as well as the eyesight significantly decreases after.

Pedestrians and cyclists should wear light or better yet reflective clothing so that they are visible at dusk and darkness from a distance. This reduces the risk of being overlooked. At their booth in the Shadow arcades, there was information as well as small reflective accessories for more visibility. Representatives of the campaign “Scratchpad”, the police and the traffic guard held many talks. Again and again, they heard that reflectors are useful for children. The experts clearly demonstrated that they also make sense for adults. Those who wanted could participate in a visual and reaction test for free. Motorists should drive at this time of year with particular care and at a reasonable speed.

For example, dark-clad pedestrians are perceived by the motorist at a distance of 25 to 30 meters at night or in poor visibility in the dipped beam. A bright and contrasting dressed pedestrian recognizes the motorist already from a distance of 40 to 50 meters. A pedestrian in reflective clothing is already visible from a distance of 130 to 160 meters.

Second action on Saturday

If you would like to find out more about the possibilities of reflective tapes or reflective clothing, you will also find suggestions and a shop on the website of the traffic guard here. Also when buying clothes, bags or Rolland, you should pay attention to reflective materials.