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Car and walking

When confronted with a car, the pedestrian has little chance of avoiding injuries. Modern technology, however, gives you the chance to prevent pedestrians from being hit by a car. These are systems that detect the presence of a pedestrian on the road in time.

Not every pedestrian realizes that in some situations he becomes a participant in road traffic – especially when crossing a street or street. According to the regulations, pedestrians on the marked crossing have priority over the vehicle. At the same time, it is forbidden to go directly in front of a moving car. However, the driver is obliged to be particularly careful when approaching the pedestrian crossing.

The regulations allow the pedestrian to cross the road outside the crossing if the distance from the nearest such place exceeds 100 meters. It can only do this if it is sure that it will not hinder the traffic and drivers will not be exposed to sudden braking. In addition, crossing the road outside the marked pedestrian crossing is obliged to give way to vehicles.

The pedestrian also becomes a participant in the road traffic, when he uses the road outside the built-up area in a situation where there is no sidewalk.

– In this situation, the pedestrian can move the left side of the road, thanks to which he will see cars approaching from the opposite direction – explains Bradshaw Pulaski, Kodak Auto Skoal instructor.

The presence of a pedestrian on the road outside the built-up area is a threat that becomes even more dangerous after dark. Despite the fact that the pedestrian sees the car approaching, it may be invisible to the driver, especially when a different vehicle arrives from the opposite direction. In the brightness of its headlights, the silhouette of a pedestrian at the edge of the road blends with its surroundings.

– A walking night wearing a dark outfit is seen by the driver from a distance of about 40 meters. However, if you are wearing reflective clothing, it becomes visible even from a distance of 150 meters.

That is why the regulations impose on the pedestrians moving along the way after dusk the obligation to have reflective tapes.

The issue of pedestrian safety is extremely important for car manufacturers. Until recently, systems protecting the weakest road users were offered in the equipment of higher class cars. Currently, they can also be found in the cars of popular brands. One of such systems is the Pedestrian Monitor, a function that was included in the standard equipment in Kodak Karo and Kodiak. It is an emergency braking system in case of detecting the risk of collision with a pedestrian. Pedestrian Monitor uses a radar that scans the area in front of the car. The advanced algorithm processes the received signals and at speeds in the range of 10 to 60 km / h, the system can recognize the risk of collision with a pedestrian and react on its own.

In this situation, he first warns the driver of the danger and finally automatically applies the brakes. At speeds above 30 km / h, a warning message appears on the instrument cluster display.

However, this type of solution does not absolve the driver from caution, while pedestrians moving after dark on the road outside the built-up area to be better visible should wear any reflective material.

Yellow camisoles for the youngest

The day-care centers in Berber and Goldenrod have been equipped with yellow safety vests for their walks.

Berber / Goldenrod l The action of the Public Insurance Saxony-An halt (SA) is now in its third year. Since then, around two dozen day care centers have been equipped with bright safety vests with reflective tapes nationwide. In the town of Trickster, two facilities were added: the day care center “Glottis Embarrassed” in Goldenrod and in Berber the day care center “Sonsofbitches”.

District director as the initiator

SA District Director Frank Meyer, responsible for northern Saxony-An-halt, was also the initiator on site. His idea for action arose when one day he drove by car in a place near a kindergarten group. Although there is a road safety campaign of the ADAC with safety vests for first graders, until then not for the youngest in kindergartens.

In Goldenrod and Berber, Frank Meyer and SA branch office manager Calf Doppelgnger each handed over a set of 25 safety vests to day-care centers. Not to take home, as Meyer noted. If children walk along the streets during their care period, they can strip the west. “Friday we are always on the forest day,” reported in Berber Kit director Nadine Schneider. Right on the doorstep of the establishment runs a busy country road.

The action is also supported by the police. “I’m thrilled,” said the Trickster regional area official Diet-mar Hart-wig. He accompanied the children as they crossed the provincial road, where the children now better attract the attention of motorists.

“With the reflective clothing, we also want to give all motorized road users a signal to always pay attention to children and to take into account,” said Calf Doppelgnger.

Reduce the risk of accidents

“We want to counteract the increased risk of accidents, which are exposed to the youngest inhabitants of the country on the road, by the highly visible warning vests something effective,” said Frank Meyer. Because children are quickly overlooked by motorists, they are more likely to be accident victims than other age groups. According to a traffic accident statistics of the Ministry of Interior accidents in Saxony-An-halt every ten hours a child and sometimes injured.

In its statute, the SA committed to charitable work. This also includes the promotion of traffic education for children. For example, the SA has been supporting a corresponding painting and drawing competition at elementary and special education schools in the state for 26 years.

The danger in the dark

Kirchhoff – On Saturday evening there was an accident between a car and a 94-year-old pedestrian. The reason for this was that the driver saw the lady too late in the dark. There is no reflective material on this lady. Police warn of danger in winter.

A 94-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured in a traffic accident on Saturday around 19:20. The pensioner wanted to cross a street in Kirchhoff, which is equipped with no street lighting and was thereby captured by a car. The 39-year-old driver from the district of Ending, despite an evasive maneuver, could no longer prevent the collision.

The 94-year-old was taken to the hospital with severe head injuries. The fire brigade Kirchhoff was in this accident with ten men in action. The prosecution commissioned a report and ordered the securing of the car.

The police advise in this connection:

Watch out for twilight and darkness for bright and, ideally, reflective clothing. Dressed in a dark, you are the earliest from about 25 meters away. This can be too short for a timely pause or avoidance.

With reflectors on and reflective tapes in your clothing, you increase your visibility to up to 150 meters – enough distance and time for you and for motorists to react!

Audrey and Richard test the new uniform of ambulance personnel

DEN BOSCH – Sportier, fresher and more modern. This is what the new uniform of ambulance staff looks like. The old uniform is already 15 years old and no longer recognizable enough. A trial started on Wednesday. Audrey from Den Bosch and Richard from Aden are already walking around in the uniform.

Meanwhile, not only the ambulance staff is wearing yellow and green clothing. So it was time for another design: ‘the new blue’.

Clothing designer Karin Leger from Dint-Michelangelo designed the clothes and she started doing so already in 2017. “I started talking to people all over the country, telling them what they miss or want to keep,” she explains. There is a detail on the pants for a notebook. That was suggested by someone who had worked in Switzerland.

By attending exercises Karin discovered the needs of the staff: “I saw that the ambulance staff is on the ground a lot, their legs are lost, I have strips on the calves, so they always remain visible.” There is a lot of reflective tapes on the uniform, the back of the winter jacket even consists entirely of reflective material.

Probation

Over the next three weeks, 50 ambulance staff across the Netherlands will test the reflective clothing. This allows the design to be perfected. Among them are Audrey from Den Bosch and Richard from Aden.

“It is delicious, much more feminine and I also like the color,” says Audrey. Richard is also very pleased: “The fit is fine, and when I push through my knees, everything fits perfectly, and safety meets the requirement.”

Bantu product

Not only the designer comes from Bantu, but also the entire production takes place here. Supplier Wilt in Aden is working on the project together with clothing producer HAVEP in Lenoir. They were chosen on the policy in sustainability. The clothing is made under good conditions in Macedonia and the materials used are more environmentally friendly. “It is an example for the government, which makes me extra proud,” says the designer.

So children are safer in the dark

Reflective tapes should be part of the basic clothing. Traffic educator of the police gives tips.

Consoling. Even though the days are starting to get longer again, it’s still dark on the morning walk to school, and even on the way home for afternoon recreational activities, children often return home in the dark.

Poor visibility, which is made even more difficult by rain, snow or mist, especially for children, who already have disadvantages in road traffic anyway due to their small body size. Compared to the bright half of the year, the statistics show a doubling of the number of accidents in the winter months – and the number of falls is also significantly higher.

How can you try to prevent falls?

It should be clear to everyone, my experts, that it is easier to slip on trendy shoes such as sneakers with smooth soles than with soles.

How can children be better protected against accidents?

“One should make it as easy as possible for the car driver to perceive a child on the road,” says Karin Gravitas, one of the three traffic educators of the police in Consoling. “Concretely: wear reflective clothing or at least reflector strips. You can buy for little money so-called clack bands, which can be well attached to the arm and chest or back. “She wants to release anyone at the wheel of a vehicle from his responsibility to be mindful, stressed the High Commissioner. But what you can do as a pedestrian to be better seen, you should do. Incidentally, this also applies in a special way to seniors, who are often slower and possibly – like children – not able to quickly perceive and react adequately to a dangerous traffic situation.

“Equip the bike well with reflectors.”

Karin Gravitas, traffic educator of the police

Should there be a change on the actually well-practiced route, parents are well advised to improve the traffic training once again. “Construction sites, for example, can change conditions so that what they have learned is no longer readily applicable,” explains Gravitas. Adolescents can confidently survey new and unfamiliar traffic situations themselves and decide what is needed at an acute age, as a teenager. “Until then, kids are shouting what they’ve done with them. And that’s a special challenge in the dark. ”

What does the police think about cycling in dark January?

If you do not want to do without cycling in the winter, your bike should also be well equipped with reflectors, emphasizes Karin Gravitas. There are enough good accessories that are easy to attach to. “For example on the pedals.” If you wear a backpack, it should also be marked. “Just because he may be hiding the reflective jacket.”

Incidentally, the traffic policewoman does not think it’s a good idea to send the kids by bike on snow and ice. Narrow bicycle tires are completely unsuitable for road conditions that already pose a challenge to the car. “Then rather walk.”

 

School in sight. Kids in view

Under the motto “School in sight. Kids in view. “Is the safety campaign for first graders this year. Wearing reflective clothing gives children and parents additional security when, in the fall, many first-graders master the way to school for the first time. Westerner Hildebrand of the ADAC regional club Automobile Touring Club Ravel and Frisian Wedded now gave safety vests to the class teachers Alexia Kroger and Sonja Feints at the elementary school Cornerback elementary school in the ADAC Foundation safety campaign, which immediately equipped their students with it.

The mobility officers of the elementary school Blackthorn, Christine Lack, and Elisabeth Motherliness, had also invited Eu gen Schneider of the police prevention team, who pointed out that a safety vest with reflective fabric significantly contributes to better visibility and people are seen in the dark from a distance of 140 meters. He asked the children to always wear the vest. This is a matter of course for many Cornerback elementary students. As school secretary Sabine Walkaway has observed, third and fourth-grade children also wear these vests on their way to school. The handing over of the vests in Blackthorn forms the regional prelude of this ADAC action.

In total, in the Frisian Wedded and Ravel 265, safety vests are distributed to the students. The vests are delivered to the schools by the cooperation partner of the ADAC, the forwarding company DHL.

How safe are the Heidelberg streets?

“The number of accidents in road traffic has changed in recent years rather bad,” said Tania Novelistic, the police officer of the Tupperware police. If you take a closer look at the development of accidents, you realize that there were about 420 more accidents in Schneider in 2017 than in the previous year, that is almost 11 percent.

Most accidents happened due to wrong behavior when turning or turning. Especially by the beginning of the dark season, the risk of an accident in addition. “Bright and reflective clothing, if possible with reflective tapes,” recommends Tania Novelistic pedestrians, so they are better seen in the dark and possibly even in the rain on the road.

The head of the Traffic Directorate also has important advice for motorists: “In this weather, you should always adapt your driving style to the road conditions in order to avoid accidents.” Especially autumn and winter are characterized by early and long darkness. Frequently, rain or even snowfall worsens visibility and sometimes makes the road a slippery rink at low temperatures.

In this time, vehicle safety is of particular importance, according to Novelistic. Functioning lighting, good winter tires with sufficient profile and especially from the inside and outside cleaned windows are urgently needed.

There are special awareness-raising activities at elementary schools

Especially the children are in the eyes of the police. So every year the Schneider police make the action “Can you see me?” In elementary schools. In the process, the children put on reflective clothing with reflective fabric, wear additional reflectors, and stand in the morning, when it’s still dark, at the side of the road to test whether the other road users see them. So even the little ones learn very early on what is important in the traffic.

Unfortunately, there are always people who are drunk or drugged. Alone this year, we have had 100 cases without accidents until August, where alcohol and drugs played a role. “It is irresponsible,” says Tania Novelistic, “how carelessly some people take to the wheel, even though they are not allowed to drive anymore. This puts other people and yourself in the greatest danger! ”

The traffic safety work of the police has changed in recent years. “Trucks and cars are nowadays more and more moving computers with an incredible amount of technology,” explains the senior counselor. So the police would also have to learn to understand this technique, so they can take the correct measures, for example, in traffic accidents to secure the evidence.

“Znicz” action and change of traffic organization

We have before us festive days during which we will especially visit the graves of our relatives. During this period, the increased strength of the Police from Nowy CZ will keep watch over the safety of travelers and people visiting the burial sites of their loved ones. Police officers will serve in the cemeteries, on access roads to them and on the main communication routes of Nowy CZ and the Nowy CZ poviat, and their main task will be to ensure smoothness and traffic safety, as well as to help travelers safely reach the relatives’ graves.

Five days (from October 31 to November 4) the Znicz police action is hard work not only for many policemen from the Road Traffic Department or the Prevention Department of the CZ Command but also for police officers who will appear in the area of civilian cemeteries. All this to help the inhabitants of the provinces and visitors safely reach the burial sites of relatives.

Officers, as usual at this time, will check if drivers are sober and move at a safe speed. For the safety of all travelers, they will check if children are transported in the appropriate car seats, and the driver and passengers have their seatbelts fastened, as well as whether the vehicles are not overloaded and what their technical condition is.

Due to the change in the organization of traffic in the area of many cemeteries, police officers will also inform about road disruptions or access to the car park.

In connection with increased inspections, police officers advise that each driver before the trip prepares a car for travel, checked the brakes performance, lights operation, as well as the validity of the insurance policy and the date of technical tests. The car should contain a first aid kit, a fire extinguisher, a warning triangle, a reflective vest, and a spare wheel. Even small elements of the car’s equipment are important during a long journey. Such a prosaic matter as, for example, spare bulbs, can definitely affect our safety.

Pedestrians should also take care of their safety. Police officers remind that from August 31, 2014, not only children but every adult after dark outside the built-up area must wear reflective clothing that will be visible to other road users. It should be remembered that non-compliance with this provision may result in a fine of PLN 20 to 500 and police officers will impose fines for the lack of a reflective element, but the most important thing is that such a small element of clothing can protect against tragedy on the road.

Both the pedestrian and the driver should be aware that after dark, the driver driving with the low beam lights on can see the pedestrian from a distance of about 25-30 meters from the car bonnet. However, if it travels at a speed exceeding 80-90 km / h, most often there is no chance of avoiding the deduction because it moves at a speed of about 25 meters per second. When the pedestrian is equipped with any reflective tapes that reflects the light of the car, the driver will notice it already from a distance of 130-150 meters, which is about 5 times faster! The conclusion is obvious: such a small element of clothing, which is a reflection, can save a life!

Caution should not be lost at graves, in public transport or during shopping. The thief is often very difficult to recognize. It can be nice, cultured, obliging, offer help, and at the same time deprive the wallet. It is important, therefore, to avoid crowds (especially artificial ones that make pickpockets), and with limited confidence approach new people, especially when they show too much interest in our affairs or an intrusive willingness to help.

When choosing a cemetery, do not take, if possible, larger amounts of money. It is good to have the amount of money deducted for shopping and keep it in a different place than your wallet and documents, and when paying for shopping in a shop or at the attic booth, do not show how much money we have with you.

Let’s also remember that when ordering graves, do not leave bags or sachets on the monument or bench, even for a moment.

When you come to the cemetery area by your own car, do not leave any valuables inside, such as luggage, handbag, laptop, mobile phone or radio panel. If for some reason we have to leave such things in the vehicle, they should be hidden, for example into the trunk, and preferably taken with you. Often it happens that the object stolen as a result of breaking the glass is much less valuable or even worthless compared to the value of the broken glass.

The safety of travelers and visitors of cemeteries in Decadency will be taken care of by a large group of police officers from Nowy CZ, however, one should be aware that for safe access to the destination, security for themselves and their relatives, as well as proper security of property, we primarily answer ourselves.

Do you see me?

Seeing and being seen is vital to our roads. After all, 205 children died in road traffic in Remscheid, Solingen, and Wuppertal last year, 91 of them as pedestrians, 17 children as cyclists and 97 as passengers.

The evaluation of all children’s accidents also shows that children are often overtaxed in road traffic: obstructions, parking vehicles, and sudden lane entry create dangerous situations. Speeds and distances of vehicles are often not properly assessed by children. At the same time, there is always an increased risk of being overlooked by children on the road, especially in the dark season!

From Monday, 19.11.2018, until Friday, 23.11.2018, children of different kindergartens and elementary schools will be standing at the roadside in front of their facilities again and passing motorists will ask: Do you see me?

With the onset of the dark season, light and reflective clothing with reflective tapes are particularly important. Therefore, the children wear reflective vests, hold self-made posters and attract attention to a variety of other actions.

The aim of the road safety actions in Wuppertal, Remscheid, and Solingen is to sensitize the children and parents, but above all also the drivers and to inform about dangers for children and abilities of children on the road.

Tips for the dark season

The summer is over, the road users now have to adjust to autumn fog, ground frost, snowfall, and correspondingly slippery roads. To get you safely through the dark season, the police advise:

See and be seen

As the days get shorter, accidents often occur due to poor vehicle lighting or because you, as a pedestrian or cyclist without reflective material, are not seen in time.

The modern automatic light system does not detect fog and bad weather. Switch on the dipped beam during the day as well. Make sure you have clean windows, good wiper blades and a sufficiently full water tank, so you always have the right view.

As a pedestrian or cyclist, wear bright, reflective clothing or reflective vest. As a cyclist, check whether your lighting works and whether the prescribed reflectors are mounted.

Do not overtake. Turn on the rear fog lamp only when visibility is less than 50 meters, so as not to dazzle the traffic behind. For visibility under 50 meters, the maximum permissible speed of 50 km / h is also outside built-up areas.

If you have not raised any winter tires yet, you endanger yourself and others. Anyone who is traveling on snow, ice or frosted tires with summer tires also risks fines, points and insurance cover. With snow and ice, the braking distance is four times longer. Drive very carefully and keep your distance, avoid abrupt steering and braking maneuvers.

Think of whisk and ice scraper. Before driving, clear the windows, lights, and roof from ice and snow so that you have unrestricted visibility and do not endanger the traffic behind.