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5 things you have to check before you go on a car trip

Your business trip or vacation should be carefully planned. The risk of unpleasant surprises on the route applies to all drivers, also using safety and comfortable cars. Checking various things before you go can limit your unnecessary nerves and expenses, also keep road safety.

 

  1. Technical condition with the technical condition of the vehicle is like with human health. Problems may appear unexpectedly, either before or during the expected trip. It is better to bet on prevention than repair. Particularly worth noting is the state of elements affecting the safety of travelers? Under the magnifying glass should be located: brake system, steering and suspension. Travel preparation is also a good time to supplement operating fluids: brake, cooling, washer, and engine oil.

 

  1. Tires Heavy safety has tires. The trailer of the problems can be not only scratches or abrasions. Before leaving, you must pay attention to the depth of the tread. For this, a special scoop or a tread depth indicator inside the grooves will be useful. Excessive wear is felt primarily on wet surfaces. Then the braking distance is extended. In addition, you should check the tire pressure, preferably after packing your luggage. You also need to remember about the condition of the wheel or spare wheels. Inadequate amount of air translates among others.

 

  1. Driver’s Guide the lists of things to be prohibited include different items. It is important to be prepared for various scenarios during the journey. Some drivers take back spare keys. It is worth keeping them somewhere other than those used as standard. It is good to start with a set of spare bulbs. Their purchase on the road, especially at night, can be like “Mission: Impossible”. In many situations, a hook and a tow rope are supported in the trunk. In an easily accessible location, there should be a warning triangle, a reflective vest and a first aid kit.

 

  1. Travel Plan The shortest, fastest, and perhaps bypass of routes and toll motorways? These are just some of the questions you need to answer while planning your trip. Before traveling abroad it is useful to check the regulations in the country of transit or destination, especially speed limits. There is information on the fees for using roads, tunnels and bridges. For longer distances, knowledge of potential places of rest or accommodation will be useful. Interruptions should occur at least once every two hours or every 200 km. Not only fatigue can lengthen the time it takes to reach the destination. Often nightmare is a change of turnout, affecting more traffic. It is therefore worth checking to see if, for example, road sections are not temporarily excluded from traffic.

 

  1. The contents of the first aid kit there are exceptions, but the vast majority of drivers in Poland do not need a first aid kit. However, each of them has a duty, among others. Provide necessary assistance to the victims of the accident. It is difficult without proper equipment, and failure to provide assistance is an offense. On the market you can find first aid kits for 20-30 zł. There are basic medical devices. First aid kits with safety triangle and warning vest are useful. They are required in selected EU countries. It is therefore important to analyze the regulations in force abroad and to make up for any shortcomings.

 

Enjoying the bike season with safety

In the vast majority of the country, snow has remained a mere memory, and in some parts of Poland one can enjoy several degrees of heat. So it is no wonder that for many bike riders the cycling season has already begun. The cops in reflective uniform also joined in the action, paying more attention to the two-wheelers. What must be equipped with a bicycle so that he can legally move on the road and what should be remembered when deciding on this means of transport?

 

Over the past few years, the popularity of bicycles – especially as an urban means of transport – has grown very dynamically. Not every bike that leaves the shop with a happy new owner, however, is adapted to the Polish regulations on the obligatory equipment of wheelchairs. In Warsaw, as part of the “Safe Cyclist” action, the police check that cyclists and riders are riding according to regulations and bicycle equipment. What can you get a mandate for?

 

In paragraph 53 of the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure, as amended in 2015, on the technical conditions of vehicles and the scope of their equipment, we must read that the bicycle must be equipped with at least one white or yellow front light, at least one non-triangular with reflective tape And one red positioning light at the back, at least one smooth brake, as well as a bell or other signal of non-repulsive sound.

 

What are important, regulations do not break those who ride bicycles without lights during the day. The same paragraph allows the possibility of dismantling the lights if they are not required at the time of use. At the same time, setting up a headlamp does not make it possible to drive at night in accordance with regulations. After dark, the light must be equipped with a bicycle, not a cyclist. Wearing a light and reflective vest on you does not mean that we will avoid a mandate in the event of a confrontation with the police.

 

What worth to additionally have safety equipment

In different countries we meet different regulations concerning the obligation to carry such items as first aid kit, fire extinguisher or reflective vest. So what is the situation of obligatory elements in the equipment of a car in Poland?

 

According to the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure of 31 December 2002 concerning the necessary equipment of the car, there should be a fire extinguisher and warning triangle with the approval mark in every vehicle. Lack of required items and placing them in a hard-to-reach place is tantamount to receiving a mandate.

 

As recommended, the fire extinguisher should be inspected at least once a year and the contents of extinguishing agent must not be less than 1 kilogram. – No fire extinguisher can also contribute to the negative result of the vehicle’s technical inspection. Every vehicle must have a warning triangle with valid homologation. In the case of incorrect signaling of a stopover on a motorway or an expressway or lack of identification of a vehicle that is towed, we can also receive a mandate, “says Mace, Auto-Boss Edition Specialist.

 

Although it is not necessary to have a first aid kit in your car, it is important to carry it with you for the safety of others and your own. In the first aid kit you should find: bandages, gas compresses, patches, compression band, and disinfectant, mouthpiece for artificial respiration, protective gloves, triangular bandage and thermal insulation blanket. Obligatory vehicles should be equipped with a first aid kit for public transport – in taxis, buses or even in cars belonging to the driving school.

 

– Useful elements that should be included in our vehicle are a reflective safety vest and a set of tools that will allow you to repair any damage yourself. I encourage you to bring with you also the tow rope and light bulbs, because you can also get a mandate for driving without the required lights – added the expert Auto-Boss.

Keep Safety with reflective clothing on two wheels

Summer is the best season for cycling. When the two wheel drive devotees leave the masses, the risk of collisions will be increases. We advise how to take care of your safety with reflective clothing and enjoy the pleasure of two wheels.

 

In 2015, the number of accidents involving cyclists amounted to 14 105. As a result, 303 drivers were killed, one injured, 1 445 injured and slightly 3 038. What to do to not become part of the police statistics? How to prepare yourself and bike for the summer season?

 

Visibility for other road users is one of the key security issues. Different types of lights represent three of the five elements listed in the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure as mandatory for each bike. At least one spotlight white or yellow at the front and two red rear-light reflectors in the shape other than the triangle and one position light are required. In addition, if the monologue design prevents signaling the direction of travel by hand, direction indicators are required.

 

To improve your safety, it is also advisable to use reflective vest, accessories, and other such over-the-counter equipment. This is an example of the best. – This year, new reflective training jerseys have been set up by the players of our team. As shown by the recent months, well-visible clothing positively influences the safety of cyclists during training sessions that take place under very varied conditions – both in terms of weather and time of day, sports director of the Trek-Sugared team. – Especially when visibility is limited for example because of fog, rain or late time, visible from afar the shirt in bright, reflective colors turns out to be very useful – adds the expert. For amateurs of cycling, this is very important equipment when moving outside the built-up area. As it turns out, the obligation to wear reflective clothing on a bicycle was introduced in France and Lithuania, for example. Appropriate t-shirts or vests are required by law outside the built-up area and after dark. In our own personal safety it is worth remembering that the reflective tape should be part of the garment or be mounted in a way that is visible to other participants in the movement.

 

In addition to the above mentioned lighting components, the required bicycle equipment includes “at least one effective brake” and a “bell or other tampering sound”. However, the appropriate equipment is one, and the technical condition of the vehicle is second. Therefore, all active amateurs of two wheels are recommended to thoroughly clean the chain once a season – clean the chain, pump the wheels, adjust the brakes and derailleur. And above all, to fix any possible defects caused by the previous season.

 

What do you need for Safe Vacation?

There are Warm rays of sunshine, the sound of waves hitting the shore and hot sand. Who would not want to break away from work and take a short break over the Baltic Sea? However, before we realize such a scenario, we need to keep in mind a few basic things and safety equipment.

 

Have you made a decision? Let’s go! If you have chosen the purpose of your trip to the Polish sea, you are most likely to get there by car. At this stage it is worth remembering a few things. We often forget that our car also requires proper preparation. Therefore, before traveling make sure to check tire pressure, oil level and refrigerant. Be sure to make sure all the lights and indicators are working, and no part of the car will raise your doubts. If you have them – go to the workshop for a review.

 

Everything works? Do not forget also about the appropriate equipment: car kit, reflective vest, or warning devices – not all you should but also you must have in the car. If everything works as it should, and in the car everything is in place, it’s time to set out.

 

The right luggage is the basis

Although it may seem that “it’s just Polish sea”, the right luggage is a necessary part of a successful trip. Of course everyone has to take into account personal preferences, but some things are universal. You will definitely need a rain jacket, warm sweatshirt, swimsuit and light clothing for hot days. In addition, every responsible traveler should bring a well-equipped first aid kit. It is good to have more advanced accessories with you: a breathing mask and a life blanket.

 

But dress and first aid kit are not all. It is also worthwhile to ensure adequate protection from the sun. Let us remember that it is worth to take the umbrella and the windscreen to the Baltic. For all of this, let’s remember about the right sunscreen that is adapted to our skin as well as the hydration of the body. Do not stay too long in the sun, because it can end with a sun stroke.

 

Safe seaside relaxation

If we were able to remember all the things and finally reached the desired Baltic, then we can indulge in blissful laziness. However, remember that with the sea there are no jokes, so we only swim in the area guarded by WOPR rescuers and safety vest. Especially since the most common circumstance of drowning is bathing in unguarded but undefended. Second, under no circumstances do you combine rest with alcohol. We do not push ourselves too, because our body need not be accustomed to exercise, and then it is not difficult for the accident.

 

Traffic will distribute this year 2000 vests to pedestrians

Person over 65 years of age, dressed in dark clothing that walks near his house alongside roadsides, without a reflective vest and crosses outside the pedestrian crossings. It is the most common profile of fatalities due to abuse in Galicia, one of the accidents in which the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) focuses its awareness campaigns. So far this year, five pedestrians have died in the community, wounded by a vehicle, which in only two months accounts for 35% of the 14 fatalities in all of 2015.

 

None of them wore a vest, so from Traffic they have decided to reinforce the awareness of the pedestrians about the importance of making themselves visible to the drivers with a joint campaign with the Junta that includes the distribution of 2,000 vests during this year -400 before Week Santa- and talks in the town councils, especially in those that concentrate more black points of outrages. It will be an information campaign in which it will not be fined, although in the cases of recidivists “other measures will have to be taken”, according to warned yesterday the Government delegate in Galicia, Santiago Villanueva.

 

Traffic last year designed a risk map of abuses involving half a hundred Galician town councils. As explained yesterday by the Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard Association of Traffic in Galicia, Javier Molino, the actions in the most conflictive nuclei with the reinforcement of the surveillance or the improvement of the infrastructures explain that in the current map only repeat five municipalities, despite the fact that the total number round again half a hundred when analyzing the 170 serious and slight violations of 2015.

 

The dispersion in Galicia, the aging of the population and the complex road network – with 17,000 kilometers of main network and 55,000 of interurban and local – are, according to Villanueva explains, the causes that explain the high numbers of abuses in the community although it qualified That the 14 pedestrians killed in 2015 are three less than the previous year and 72% below the 50 recorded in 2005.

 

Molino points out that these “singularities” place Galicia five points above the national average each year in terms of deaths due to abuses. For this reason, it is important to insist that users use these elements also when it is daytime – not only from dusk, when it is obligatory due to the loss of visibility – in order to avoid any failure of the driver.

 

In the educative talks, the agents will remind the elderly people of the importance of always wearing a safety vest and also walking on the left and in case there is always a circular walk through it. This group is the most vulnerable to abuse by having less mobility to react and less vision to calculate the distance of the vehicle. In addition to the talks focused on this group, for Lieutenant Colonel Molino it is “fundamental” that the environment of the elderly remind them how to walk and cross the road. In the same vein, the head of Traffic in A Corunna and head of the DGT in Galicia, Victoria Gomez Debarred, said that “family support” helps to overcome the “rejection” of the elderly to the vest for being “a Flashy garment “but that can be your” lifesaver “.

 

The Ministry of Environment will put the 2,000 vests of the campaign available to the agents, an action included in the road safety plan 2016-2020 of the Junta that also plans to build 170 kilometers of pedestrian paths. The Ethel insisted that nothing can substitute “the caution” of pedestrians and drivers. In the case of the latter, lowering the speed to 50 km / h where there are houses and people transit reduces by half the number of pedestrians killed.

 

 

Reflective material is a highly recommended safety measure

Many runners wonder if it is advisable to go running with rain and wind. Today we tell you what risks exist and the best tips for running safely.

 

It rains and you want to run … But, is it advisable? Wind and rain can be factors to make us stay home and stop training. But if it rains several days in a row, are you sure you want to stay at home? If you are a passionate runner we are sure that it will not be so. That’s why today we tell you the risks of running with rain or wind and the best tips to do so.

 

Risks of running with rain or wind

As you can imagine, the risks are more related to the amount of rain or wind that we face. It is clear that in the event of a thunderstorm or excessive winds in which we cannot control our movements, it is best that we do not run. If you want to train, that day you can do some exercise routine at home. Here are some of them: Exercises for oblique abs: The most effective and complete home body routine: What is and complete guide.

 

But if the rain or wind is moderate and bearable, you can go running by taking some precautions that we will tell you next, such as making the routes you already know, avoiding earthy soil or use reflective vest. You do not have to fear a cold. Unless you are already hatching one, you do not have to get sick after a running session in the rain or wind, as long as you carry out these tips. Take note!

 

Tips for running with rain or wind

Some runners definitely cannot stand the rain, and if they catch them in the middle of a race, they just stop and stop exercising. Of course it’s your choice, but if you do not want to stop training or want to participate in races, ideally, you keep running and do not stop for rain. If you know that it can rain or it is already raining, you can leave much more prepared to give everything. Take note of these tips that will help you run in the rain or wind safely and confidently.

 

On rainy day do not set goals of effort. Ideally, you should do a continuous race that does not require stops, jumps or movements that can cause you to slip through the water or become unbalanced by the wind.

Make a known route and if possible, with a non-earthy terrain, since with the water it can get muddy and the wind can cause sand to get into your eyes. If possible, asphalt on bad weather conditions is the best option. Being a porous soil, it will prevent you from slipping.

Avoid fast roads. Ideally, in a day like this you run on running tracks or parks, but if you do not exist or you do not have access to them, at least try to run in areas where cars do not pass very fast. It will be much safer.

Keep in mind that the wind and rain remove visibility to cars on the road, so wearing a vest or reflective bands is a highly recommended safety measure. Also wearing light clothing or flashy colors is a good choice for those days.

 

In the case of running with rain, wear waterproof running shoes. If you do not have it, choose the ones with the best gripping soles, essential to avoid slipping and injury in the rain. So that you do not get blisters when you get your feet, use more Vaseline than usual in the ankle areas or sensitive areas of your foot. You can also apply Vaseline under armpits or nipples, to avoid excessive rubbing with wet clothes, in case you do not wear raincoats.

Your visibility should be your priority to run with confidence and safety, so protect yourself with a cap or visor in case of rain or running glasses in the case of wind. You will prevent water and dust particles from entering your eyes.

A brochure collects safety tips for cyclists.

The Government of Navarra has published a brochure, with the motto “Live safely by bike”, with safety vest and recommendations for cyclists, a group that between 2010 and 2015 has recorded 169 accidents in Navarra, with 12 people dead, 38 severe injuries and 124 minor injuries.

 

The triptych, which has been edited 32,000 copies, has versions in Spanish (24,000 units) and Esker (8,000 units), emphasizes the use of helmet, visibility (lighting, clothing and reflective), avoiding distractions (Use of mobile phones and headphones) and not to drive under the effects of alcohol and / or drugs.

 

It will be distributed in educational centers, health centers, cycling clubs (through the Cycling Federation of Navarre), bicycle sales and repair shops, Polo Park, and other entities and groups related to cycling. The publication of this publication is one of the initiatives taken within the working group on cycling safety created a year ago in the framework of the Navarre Road Safety Strategy.

 

Helmet use reduces mortality by 85%

As regards the helmet, the publication recalls that its use is always mandatory for children less than 16 years of age and, in the case of older people, when traveling by road. The hull must be well secured and must be approved by the EC. As he recalls, helmet use reduces mortality by 85% and risk of head injuries by 70%. Distractions are the first cause of accident and the elements that are most frequently involved in it are the mobile phone and the headset. In addition, the use of both objects is prohibited when cycling.

 

Ensuring visibility is another of the recommendations, since some of the accidents occur because drivers do not see cyclists. To do this, remember the need to install lighting on the bike. Specifically, the regulations in force require a white position light on the front, a red position light on the rear, and also on the rear a red reflector that is not triangular.

 

Also recommend wearing light clothing, especially yellow or orange of high visibility and, if possible, use reflective vest. Finally, reference is made to the consumption of alcohol and drugs, indicating that the driving of bicycles under the effect of these substances constitutes a serious fault. The maximum permitted alcohol rate is 0.25 mg in expired air.

 

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.”