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Take reflective vest to ride in the rain

Stay calm when the sky is falling on your head: how to brake, accelerate, turn, behave …
For that every fall, unlike the leaves, the bikers are not shoveled

The wonderful feeling of freedom that we encounter on a motorcycle is partly because no other vehicle makes such a connection with the outside environment. The downside: the weather sometimes challenges us in our place by making us aware of our smallness against the unleashing of the reflective element. With the approach of the bad season, here are our tips for the motorcycling remains a pleasure even in the rain and your journeys, short or long, are carried out safely. Before departure, it is of course important to check weather forecasts: to govern is to foresee.
Adhesion: twice less grip.

And to keep vehicles on the ground, one of the most effective solutions lies in the rubber, a magical product based on natural rubber. There are other solutions, particularly with synthetic rubber (very commonly used on motorcycle tires) and the future holds mixtures of dandelions or biomass.

Short. Our tires stand because they generate a friction on the ground. The nature of friction is different in the case of wet asphalt. What does the teratology, the science of the study of friction? That the coefficient of adhesion of dry bitumen is from 0.6 to 0.8 and it falls in a range of 0.3 to 0.4 in the case of wet asphalt. To be clear: there is twice less grip on wet than dry.
With a slight downside: all bitumen, however, is not the same. Some have a high coefficient of particle size (mu: μ) that will leave more easily stagnate water surface when the bitumen with a lower μ promote more flow. Reflective vest is necessary for everyone.The difference can be felt over a light rain, less if sustained, prolonged downpour.

Note also that in case of heavy rain after a long dry period, the fat particles infiltrated the floor rise to the surface (they are less dense than water) and, mixing with dust and gum residue, reduced to especially the bitumen adhesion power. It is therefore necessary to exercise caution.
Tires: not under inflated …
These are the tires that allow you to take the floor, so they appreciate that you give them some attention.
Rule number 1: tires, it inflates to the correct pressure (even a pouillème more for the wet) and the carcass works in optimum conditions provided by designers and allows grooves to be opened as necessary for a good discharge of water.
Rule number 2: try to “finish” your tires in the winter because you will take less angle is a bad idea. A worn tires 50% seen its performance deteriorate by 20% and in the rain, you need the full potential of your tread. You have any interest in mounting new tires in the fall, to dispose of their performance potential in the bad season, even finish the edges in spring, provided the selected tire has even wear.
Regarding the performance of the tire, it is necessary to distinguish the ability of the tire to heat up (for the carcass can work correctly) and the sculptures to drain the water. On bitumen that wicks water well, if little rain, a sports tire is still relatively efficient. If this film on the road, you have to evacuate. While some manufacturers in reflective accessory offer “winter” tires for scooters, tire technology “all season” for motorcycle is a line of hard work. Some tires, moreover, openly claim their wet performance.
Finally, the tire will tell you it is important to have two tires of the same brand: the sculptures of the front tire are designed to shed water so that the rear tires to do its job.

A pedestrian dies, struck by a 4×4 on the road from Rural

A young man of 20 who was walking along the road from Rural died Thursday night after being hit by a 4X4. A 17-year-old friend who was with him was seriously injured. The driver continued for manslaughter.
A new deadly traffic accident came undermine Thursday night the statistics the number of road deaths in the department since the beginning of the year. Thursday evening, about 21 hours, two young men aged 17 and 20 years, walked the CD6 Rural road to Cayenne. They left the town and were heading to Degrade Stoup and to spend the night on a boat, whose parents are the major owners.
None of them was wearing a reflective vest. They were struck by a 4×4. The driver of the vehicle was not arrested at the time; she went to her home in Mature. She said she heard a noise but did not know it was pedestrian. A few minutes later, she returned to the scene of the accident with her husband and discovered the irreparable. One of the pedestrians, Jordan Durante, aged 20, died instantly. Her boyfriend Dylan aged 17 and originally from Rural, was transported in serious condition deemed emergencies. Yesterday he was still hospitalized.
The driver in safety vest continued for manslaughter. The number of dead on roads Guyana is 24 since the beginning of the year against 28 deaths last year.

Winter gloves with reflective material

Bremen – He looks like a fire brigade glove for firefighters with safety vest. That’s what makes the Winter Glove Ice-Fighter by Seize. He is like the fire-protective gloves Fire-Fighter in style. The winter glove is suitable for skiing, cycling in icy temperatures and other winter activities. Without a doubt, the Ice-Fighter is a looker.

Unlike a fire-protective glove he is not suitable for the tasks at Fire and Rescue Service. The Ice-Fighter protects its carriers “only” cold: throw the snowballs, build sledding snowman and walking and cycling in the winter.

The Ice-Fighter has a snug, ergonomic cut form. He has a wrist. With reflective tape, the ankle protection on the backhand and on the fingers, it resembles the fire-protective gloves very. By the neon yellow reflective vest, the glove has an additional warning function – for example for cyclists at dusk and at night on the road.

Fluorescent reflective jacket: Towards a 2nd class fine?

News – Published Friday, June 21, 2013 at 13:31 by James Vidal

The National Road Safety Council has just made its recommendation on the retro reflective vest motorcycle. Required (at least under the seat), do not wear it if need be fined in the amount of € 35.

Update 10 May 2015: The requirement will be for 1 January 2016.

The NSRF therefore comes to shell its recommendations to the Ministry of Interior. Not surprisingly, the new (not so new) one size number plates and the transport of a retro reflective vest the Optional Port will figure prominently.

It’s by the end of the year that the recommendations will or not transposed into a law, but the NSRF therefore formally proposed this morning that the obligation to have a retro-reflective vest be extended scooter riders and bikers.

“II. – The driver must be of a high visibility jacket with reflector when it is brought out of a stopped vehicle on the road or its surroundings after an emergency stop. Outstanding, the driver must have this jacket handy. ”

Warning if no penalty will be applicable in case of non-submission of this vest during a check, its non-use when necessary can be suppressed as for motorists, with a fine.

To date, this is a 4th class fine but the NSRF proposes to lower it to a second class. It is 35 € for any biker or not wearing retro reflective vest, because of an accident or emergency stop. We will monitor the implementation of these proposals in the coming months, as the reactions of the manufacturers, who had already had to get rid of stocks armband

4 mandatory retro-reflective stickers on the helmet (on pain of a fine of € 135) are there to ensure nighttime visibility of the rider when he is not on his motorcycle. Under such conditions, it is therefore surprising that wearing the vest with a reflective tape in case of an emergency stop should be extended to bikers. Unless it is considered bad mind to think that yellow vest, in the pipes for years, must be gently placed, no matter what the moaners and statistics.

Children’s road safety with reflective tape

As a small mouse, it has crept aboard midday walking bus that takes the last two years, students from kindergarten Suzanne Lanky in the canteen of Saint-Hillarie-Liz-Cambria. We’re taking you with us?
Get there a few minutes before the parents to see the silhouette of the two “conducting” the walking bus disappearing into the pretty kindergarten Suzanne Lanky, go around the class to recover the fourteen children who will eat at the canteen this midi then put them in working order, “and winter do take a reflective vest, because you have to cross a street to get to the canteen, it can be dangerous,” says Pascal De Never, graduated BAFA, municipal employee in reflective vest for six years.
While some of their classmates climb into the cars of their parents, they take the direction of the school yard. For it is there that this walking bus line starts.
There was first a red staircase to descend before to track slabs depicting colorful animals, skirting the cemetery to climb a new red stairs and drop finally hungry children safely. “Before the creation of the walking bus, remembers Pascal De Never, we had to make the turn, you pass the church, and we go through the cemetery. There are pebbles on the ground. The children were at risk of falling on the graves. The walking bus has secured the ride. He reassured us and saves us time. ”
The second line of podiums hand, at about the same time, primary school Joliot-Curie. This is Isabelle soling which the conduit. There are return trips, of course. And in the evening after school, a third line takes the children of the Joliot-Curie school daycare that is in kindergarten.
On our own line, right now, we advance. Pairs. Every day there are negotiations about who will hand Pascal De Never or Nathalie Proverb. “But some do not want us to give it all. They prefer a little fellow, who sometimes has already chosen another for the road “, says Pascal De Never. So there are little dramas but still adult ears to listen and then reassurance. Ethan precisely panics. He saw an insect to pass him; he is afraid of being bitten and continues to return to check an errant mosquito comes nibble. “The children speak to us on the road a lot, explains Nathalie Proverb. They tell us they have made animations in the morning, the outputs of the afternoon, all. “The link is even stronger than the two ladies are also involved in the canteen, plays games with the little ones before classes resume, and is also responsible for new extracurricular activities. Five minutes passed. The terminus is already stands opposite us.
An idea that is hard to take
It was a tempting idea, though. The walking bus, with its group of children take from one point to another is economic, ecological, for creating bonds between parents and children with reflective element. But it did not take.
At least, not outside the three remaining lines of Saint-Hillarie-Liz-Cambria. They were intended to get children to school from different points throughout the city. “It was for families to coach trips, explains Maurice Defraud, the mayor of the commune. The initiative was launched in 2013 by Jean-Raymond Wattles, his predecessor. But the habit of taking the car is anchored. ”
This is the same conclusion in Vineries. Four lines were implemented “in 2011 or 2012, remembers Laurence Prelate, mayor of the municipality. This is Michel Waller and who had this idea, he liked the innovative things. What was clear from the discussions when it was introduced, it was insurance issues. “The council is committed to defray insurance that would cover pupils and careers. But no accompanying precisely does volunteer to mentor schoolchildren. “In our town, we have many working parents without reflective tape on clothing, Laurence Prelate Advance as explanations track. They go by car drop their children at nursery or school before running off to work. ”
Rest of this adventure, scattered signs and hope that one day, take the walking bus.

Road safety: new measures to cut down road deaths

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Public Relations Department call on people wear reflective vest

The Public Relations Department of the National Police on the requirements that should be considered for screening people and vehicles at roadblocks. Most of traffic accidents are cause of low visibility weather and seldom people equip safety accessory like reflective vest.

To perform the procedures in the control of police barriers must have the minimum amount of seven police officers. Each operation must have one or more patrol (car, truck, and motorcycle), often portable radio of the National Police, sleeves and reflective tape, reflective cones, vests, flashlights and whistles.

Police personnel in this type of operating asks individuals identity card, if alien must present their passport, vehicle documents and driving license.

Agents can make the vehicle inspection whenever there is suspicion that inside of road is some sort of object related to the commission of an offense, such inspection must take place in the presence of the person responsible for the vehicle.

Operating can be performed at any time of day and in visible places.

A forex trader Argentina national was killed Monday in a shot by assailants in the town of Puerto Falcon. To realize the robbery, the criminals set up a fake police checkpoint barrier, using reflective cones, police also wore safety vest.

It turned Ramón Escobar victim 62 who resisted the assault and was shot in the head.

Reflective vests save lives

We have with us in 2300 reflective tape, piles with conventional reflectors and moreover many figure reflexes. And to say it goes away!

Arne A base in Road Safety marking the national day reflex through distribution of free reflex to anyone arriving downtown with light rail or bus to Festplassen and Olav Kyra Street…

Far from all have reflective vest, when they get off the bus. And the vast majority welcomes the Abase calls “a cheap insurance.”

Many people go around in the belief that here in the city we do not flare, but it is wrong. Many have haste, go in dark clothes and may have to cross several streets until they are at work. Also inside the city streets can be difficult for motorists to spot pedestrians. Today there is great clear day, but tomorrow it may be pour POS rainy weather, which makes visibility even worse, he says.

2.8 million Norwegians have experienced almost run on a pedestrian in the dark, writes for Road Safety in a statement.

Everyone knows that reflex saves lives, but too few are using it, says Carina Penske, Acting Communications Director of Road Safety.
According to Institute of Transport Economics happens about 35 percent of the fatalities with consistently in the dark? Only five percent of pedestrians are hit and injured, because they wear safety vests.

Safety vests should be mandatory for cyclists

The German Police Union wants to introduce in Berlin reflective vests for cyclists. This triggers a new discussion about more road safety.

Many cyclists are dark without light on the road, endangering themselves and other road users. Especially in the winter months when it is already dark early, many cyclists are easily overlooked. The German Police Union Berlin (Dog) now demands that cyclists must wear by nightfall on a reflective vest.

“With safety vest are cyclists more visible in the dark,” said Bode Count Palatine, state chairman of the Dog, the Berliner Morgenpost. “Therefore, it should at dusk and at night give a duty to carry safety vests.” The demand came at a symposium of the radio car driver together in discussions with the officials of the traffic monitoring. Berlin cyclists would rush especially in the evenings without lights through the city, they say. “The excuses are mostly the same. The light is only just broke down” Palatine reported from the experience of officials. “Particularly brazen is the excuse it passing anyway nothing.”

The advocacy of the cyclists, the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC), the trade union demand looks critical. “Who wants to make cycling safer, must take care of safe cycle lanes and, through public relations work for a good traffic environment. The show international comparisons such as Copenhagen or with the Netherlands,” said Stephanie Kroner, spokeswoman for the ADFC. “Anyone who feels as cyclists on the streets welcome and respected adheres better to the rules. The lighting requirements for bicycles are sufficient to ensure the visibility and perception of cyclists.”

Please also refer to Pro & Contra: The Police Union wants to initiate with their demand a political discussion. “We are intensely for our idea to get lives, advertise,” Palatine said. Support learns the union demand of the CDU parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies. “Yes, without restrictions Yes. I am very clear for a mandatory safety vests for cyclists from nightfall,” said the traffic expert of the CDU, Oliver Frederica. “That’s a lot of security for little money.” Cyclists who are not seen in the dark, would scare often pedestrians and motorists and put at risk. “I am an ardent supporter of this idea.”

The Green Group in the House believes that the proposal in everyday life will be difficult to implement. “The proposal of the police union is certainly well-intentioned, but impractical,” said the transport spokesman for the Greens, Stefan Gelbhaar, and referred to Leihfahrradsysteme. “Then every cyclist should at all time carry around a reflective vest with them.” Always new demands would bring in his view, nothing. “Better is a functioning lighting on the bicycle and adequate controls.”

In the traffic safety not only the cyclists should be aware of their responsibilities, he said, and calls for better infrastructure for cyclists. Especially at intersections would happen a lot of accidents? “There is still plenty to do.” “One should think and educate about wearing the vests on a voluntary basis,” he said. “To make the wearing of duty, I see skepticism in Berlin.”

The ADAC relies on higher education, attractive clothing, reflective tapes and voluntary instead of a “bureaucratic safety vest obligation”. “Vests care with cyclists for much better visibility in the dark. Especially in Berlin already many cyclists wear reflective vests voluntarily and are therefore safer on the road,” said Volker cranes, ADAC board member for transport in Berlin-Brandenburg. “Lighting and visibility are equally important for all road users.”

Safety clothing with reflective tape for fire fighters

The mid-90s had all the fire brigades in Baden-Württemberg converted to the prescribed by the state turnout gear 90, the state of Baden Württemberg has this turnout gear required and subsidized compulsory. The jacket was orange in color.

The familiar image of the orange insert jackets heard now in the fire brigade Bad Friedrichshall thing of the past. Even with the loss of power exercises on the last weekend in June, the new red-yellow protective suits could be seen. On July 5, all active members were equipped with the new safety vest.

The reason for the change is the modification and extension of the standard for firefighters turnout gear in 2007, which confirmed what had firefighters from practice already known and has been widely criticized: The consistent use clothes corresponded – especially in fire fighting – not the more stringent requirements , With the introduction of many modern plastics in the automotive and residential construction as well as the novel isolation techniques and insulation fires have today a different character: They often develop insidiously as smoldering with highly toxic hot flue gases, the case of a sudden supply of oxygen by bursting of a window pane or open the door to the fire room tend to smoke gas ignition with simultaneous enormous heat development, and flashes education.

Such occurrences could use the traditional clothes, especially pants, not adequately protect what when using forces often resulted in burns. Therefore, should be included with the firefighters Bad Friedrichshall for many years on the vehicles Pants for respiratory protection task forces and all respirators carrier equipped with new pants use new protection level 2 of 2007.

In previous orange jackets used was disadvantageous that the reflective tape grayish after several washings and no longer adequately reflect. In addition, had the road space in addition high visibility vests are worn. Hinders was also the length of jackets when deployed in a bent bracket or on their knees. In addition, many jackets were consumed by the variety of operations and exercises. Already in the past had to be replaced jackets.

Against this background, the fire brigade Bad Friedrichshall 2008 the city a request for procurement of new turnout gear, which should correspond to the now valid standard. The application was approved and set a first rate in the household. Thus began a two-year long way with innumerable meetings and several offers that had to be seen, until the final three patterns came into the closer selection that have been re-examined extensively. Already soon it was decided that the use of clothes should not be blue but again orange or red.

For the choice of the light color several factors have spoken. Firstly, dirt (especially by Brandruß and other toxic substances) easily visible, the protective jacket is cleaned regularly. On the other swallows bright clothes less heat – especially important “hot” in fire operations and in the summer. The most important positive side effect is that the emergency services can be seen well on the day and at twilight.

Another important point for the evaluation of new turnout gear was the opinion on the wearing comfort. Bent over, on their knees or on the ground, the task forces are often required when it is necessary to save human lives or protect property. Especially in fire operations and there the inside attack with respirators, personal protective equipment plays a particularly important role. Therefore, the jacket should not be too long, but also be a jacket because of the protective effect in the overlap region pants / jacket.

In Firemen Committee it was decided to involve all active members then for fire protective clothing Fire liner, Model 1960 Spacer, the company Consulted AG. The upper is made of Nome XRS and heat resistant up to 450 ° C operating temperature of heating. Additional protection is achieved by the three-layer structure with a PU membrane, heat resistant up to 230 ° C internal temperature. The protective clothing is antistatic and short-term resistance to acids and alkalis. The colors red and luminous yellow with additional reflective tapes provide a so optimal visibility so that vests in road traffic can be omitted for the emergency services.

The fire protective clothing Fire liner is especially suitable for use on heat sources. Even with short-term contact with an open fire, the carrier is protected from injury. These clothes not only offer maximum protection in the interior attack, but also protects against the weather. The wear properties will be evaluated by the emergency services as pleasant, particularly because of the short cut, the light weight and fit.

A total of 110 uniform jackets were purchased and issued July 5, 2010 in the presence of Mayor Peter Dodderer for the assets of all departments. When handing over the new protective clothing resulted from Mayor Dodderer that the city is behind your fire department and the emergency services in their operations provides the best possible protection, insofar as this is within the scope of what is possible and can be justified. The rationale in the proposal was convincing. Therefore, special attention was paid to the quality and features and decided not only by the price when purchasing the jackets. This approach has proven itself already in the procurement of the turnout gear 90, which largely is now 15 years of service. The total cost were financially for the city a huge chunk, since now, in contrast to the initial procurement of the turnout gear 90, for the necessary replacement measure now no grants will be awarded by the State. Financing requirements were provided over a period of 3 years in the households and transmitted as part of the fire department budgets respectively.

There will be for some time, the old and new turnout gear side by side, because the previous use of clothing is 90 as far as possible retained as replacements and exercise jacket. The first reactions of the forces on the reflective vest were positive after the first missions.