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30 percent of vests did not meet the requirements

Recall from August 2014, reflective elements must be used by all pedestrians, moving along the road after dark outside the built-up area, and not only children and adolescents. Such colorful, shiny reflections, however, fell in love with the youngest. In the photo of children during the action “Wear reflections” in Bydgoszcz, Dariusz Bloch / Archive.

 

The Trade Inspection inspected clothing for the warning, reflective accessories and hearing protectors.

 

Reflectors are becoming more and more popular. It is influenced by the increase in our awareness, but also by numerous educational campaigns.

 

Recall from August 31, 2014, reflective elements must be used by all pedestrians moving along the road after dark outside the built-up area, and not only children and young people up to the age of 15, as it was before. There are many reflections on the market. However, not all of them, as it turns out, provide total security. This is the case, for example, with gadgets (promotional materials) that may be similar to them, but should not be treated as such. For the reflector can only be called an accessory that has passed the conformity assessment procedure and has the CE mark.

 

The Trade Inspection has decided to take a closer look at such reflective accessories. The audit took place in the second quarter of 2017 in nine voivodeship. Inspectors checked mainly wholesalers and stores. They looked at 53 products and questioned 16 of them (30.2%). Grounds? Even the negative results of laboratory tests, errors in the instructions for use and the lack of a declaration of conformity confirming that the manufacturer has carried out the conformity assessment procedure.

 

The vests with reflective materials were dangerous, they were not visible enough

Every second reflective vest examined in the laboratory had a low luminance coefficient. What does it mean? Lack of adequate visibility of the user, which poses a threat to his health and life when he is moving on the side.

 

In the case of reflections, no such irregularities were found, but there were objections to the instructions for use. For reasons of formal incompatibility, the inspectors also questioned 5 hearing protectors.

 

Most entrepreneurs have voluntarily removed errors. The President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection initiated proceedings in five cases.

 

So what do you buy reflections?

As advised by UOKiK experts, let’s watch out for gadgets. Companies often give out accessories that look like reflections. It is not known, however, whether they have the appropriate properties, because they have not undergone a conformity assessment procedure. Confirmation that they meet the requirements is a CE mark, placed directly on the reflector or on the attached label.

 

The instructions for use must be written in Polish. We should learn from it at least under what conditions it should not be used and how to store it so that it does not lose its properties.

 

Attention. Wear a reflector so that the headlights of the car illuminate. The lower, the better. Thanks to this, the driver will notify you in advance. Do not cover the scarf with a scarf or bag. Fix reflective elements on the side of vehicle movement.

 

Check the condition of the reflectors. If you have wiped the reflective tape on the clothing or backpack, replace it. If water got into the reflection, buy a new one because the old one lost its properties due to the moisture.

The man was lying on the street, a car hit him

A 47-year-old pedestrian died on the spot. The accident occurred on Tuesday. Railway in Poraj. The police and the prosecutor’s office determine the circumstances of the incident.

 

The tragedy occurred around 17. “The Audi driver, a 28-year-old man, rode down Kolejowa street, raided a man lying on the roadway. The 47-year-old resident of Poraja was killed on the spot,” informs the Poviat Police Headquarters in Myszków.

 

The circumstances of the accident explained by the police from Myszków and the prosecutor’s office. On Tuesday there were difficult conditions on the road in the area, which could have contributed to the tragedy.

 

By the way, policemen call on everyone to use glare. “On an unlit road, drivers mainly see strong lights of vehicles approaching from the opposite direction and horizontal signs painted on the road. The silhouettes of pedestrians and cyclists are noticed at the last minute, usually at a distance of 30-40 meters. In bad weather, visibility gets worse. If the pedestrian equipped with a reflective vest reflecting the lights of the car, the driver will notice it already from a distance of 130-150 meters, which is about five times before!” police warn.

All you need to know about the new Quebec Road Code

The Quebec Parliament unanimously adopted the bill to amend the Road Safety Code. Many measures have an immediate effect, while others will come into effect gradually.

 

These will aim to increase the awareness of each user of public roads and to force him to act with caution and respect, especially for those most vulnerable to him.

 

Here are the main measures. The parenthesis is the date on which the provision enters into force. Unless otherwise specified, this is the year 2018.

 

Driving alcohol

A recidivist will be forced to drive a car that will be equipped with an anti-starter ethometry. This sanction can only be lifted after 10 years, provided the driver demonstrates that alcohol or drugs have no impact on his ability to drive a vehicle. (a decree to this effect will be issued by the provincial government)

 

Cyclists

Fines for cycling offenses are increased. These will be between 80 and 100 dollars. The same amount of the fine will be applied to other road users who are not drivers (those who go on trout, skates, etc.). (May 18)

 

Bicyclists are no longer required to signal the stop, but they still need to signal the change of direction. (May 18)

 

There are no signs of inefficiency for cyclists (April 18th)

 

Even if the road is free, the red traffic lights and the stop sign require complete immobilization. Bicyclists have to go in the direction of traffic – unless a sign allows anything else or when necessary.

 

It is forbidden to move between two rows of moving cars.

 

Ear headphone circulation is forbidden. (30th of June)

 

Bicycles shall be equipped with at least eight reflective elements (pedals, wheel side, red rear reflector and white in front, and reflective vests) (May 18)

 

Cyclists have to stop five meters behind a school bus that has the damage done. (May 18)

 

Overtaking a cyclist

The driver of a road vehicle must slow down and observe a safe distance when overtaking a cyclist. This distance is 1.5 meter on roads where the speed limit exceeds 50 km / h and 1 meter on roads where the limit is 50 km / h or less.

 

Pedestrians

Pedestrians have priority on a crossing of pedestrians as soon as they have indicated their intention to cross. (May 18)

 

The driver of a road vehicle must slow down and observe a safe distance when crossing a pedestrian. This distance is 1.5 meter on roads where the speed limit exceeds 50 km / h and 1 meter on roads where the limit is 50 km / h or less. (May 18)

 

The principle of prudence

The Road Code introduces the “Prudence Principle”. He says: “Every road user is obliged, especially with regard to the most vulnerable, to act with caution and respect when traveling on public roads.” The Code does not provide for a specific sanction for non-compliance with this principle, but the rest of the code rules can be applied. (April 18th)

 

Driving inadvertently. Mobile Phones

It is forbidden for any conductor and any cyclist to use a mobile phone or any other portable device intended to transmit or receive information or be used for entertainment purposes. There are some exceptions.

 

The fines for drivers are now between $ 300 and $ 600. In the case of subsequent deviations, the minimum fine is doubled. The driver is also subject to an immediate suspension of the 3, 7 or 30-day permit, depending on whether it is a first, second or third relative and after a two-year period.

Reflective motion – Reflectives save lives

To be seen saves lives – the history of the reflex movement

Although I worked with visibility and reflexes (as a salesman and marketer in one of Sweden’s leading companies in the field of reflex manufacturing) I did not think so much about how I myself appeared for motorists. It doesn’t matter much, I thought. I see the cars and don’t have to go out into the street if there is a car. Although I always bore reflexes on me, I noticed that not many adults did so for the same reason.

I worked for several years with selling reflexes to stores and also noticed that the interest was pretty cool. No store invested in reflections or cared much about them. Neither they nor I really understood why reflections are so important.

Until I myself drove a car and was driving a man. The person went along a country road that I drive every week, to get to the stable where I take riding lessons. It is a narrow road without road lighting and it is crowded to meet cars. A little further on a straight, I see that there is an oncoming car. I keep myself far out of the way so that the meeting is easy. All of a sudden, as of nowhere, a person comes straight to me. It is a man who is out with his dog. At the same time, the oncoming car is getting closer. I hesitate and manage to stop the car on the roadside just in time to not drive the man with his dog. He cabins with my fist to me and calls me speed.

I kept low speed, below the allowed speed, when I planned for the meeting with the other driver. The person with the dog did not seem at all. Neither he nor the dog had reflections on them. Only when they were about 10-20 meters in front of me I see them. Just too short distance! I am extremely happy that I succeeded in stopping the car and very grateful that I kept a low speed.

This incident made me think carefully about this with visibility in traffic. The person in question saw me clearly and wondered why I was aiming to drive him. He did not see the car approaching behind him and for which I created meeting rooms. It made me realize that I cannot rely on myself alone. I need help from motorists by making me visible to them. I started working on teaching store staff and individuals how important it is with reflective materials. Interest was raised and more and more people began to understand that it is important to use reflexes. But reflexes were perceived as boring and there were not so many stores that wanted to take in and sell reflexes. The company I was working on did not sell to the final consumer.

I decided to open my own reflex shop. There was not a single reflex shop in the country (or the world) so it may not be so strange that reflections are not perceived as important (or fun). Numerous I drive Reflex movement which both informs about the important function of the reflex and sells all kinds of reflections, directly to the end users. Interest became enormous and I created collaborations with more manufacturers to get as wide a range as possible. Now everyone can easily and easily provide the type of reflex that is best suited for him or her. We have reflective vests and caps with reflectors, hanging reflectors, magnetic reflexes, hard reflections, soft reflections, reflections for dogs, reflex stickers…

My vision is to get adults to use reflexes to a greater extent. Parents are very good at providing their young children with reflections and children’s outerwear often have reflective fabrics. Onus adults (and young people), the clothes are often dark, so reflections make great use of us. Even if you live in illuminated urban areas you need reflexes. I, who is now extremely aware that there may be people I do not see the longest way, have had to slow down hard even at illuminated pedestrian crossings, just because I did not see the person who started to cross the road. Then it is important to understand that reflections are needed all year and not just in winter.

Being seen really saves the life!

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.

New thresholds in the Counterclockwise

The chicane in the Counterclockwise did not suffice. It would be unsafe for cyclists and moreover, it was a bit awkward for the entrance to the relatively new home of flower association Flora. That was the opinion of a number of local residents. They talked to the municipality and after consultation, it was decided to opt for different speed inhibiting measures. Cyclists should wear reflective vests and be safe to ride at night.

Droughts and crosses?

However, due to anticommunism not everyone on the Counterclockwise was aware of the changes, so that some of the residents were surprised about the appearance of mysterious lines in the road surface, making it seem as if someone liked (extensive) butter-cheese-and-eggs wanted to play on the Counterclockwise. Waterborne was asked to find out what was going on.

New speed inhibiting measures

The municipality confirms that the existing chicane is disappearing, instead of that a bit further on road narrowing with thresholds are being realized, which cyclists can pass unimpeded. To increase the safety of the traffic and the visibility of the road narrowing, a test is being done with a new type of reflective material that is applied to the concrete tires.

This is a high-quality and durable reflective tape that light up very brightly as a light line for good evening and night visibility as a result of the car, scooter and bicycle lighting. The concrete tires, supplied by Fortissimo Grep from Henge, are made of white stone for good day visibility and contrast to the asphalt road surface.

The road narrowing will be realized this week. The reflection material will take a while, due to delivery times. This is expected to be applied after Easter.

Bella Hadid, we have to talk about your latest look

Has your car broken down and you had to put on your reflective vest?

Dear Bella Hadid, with the number of risky looks with which you have delighted us in all this time we thought we were used to and that nothing would be able to surprise us … but we must admit that we were wrong. Your new style has left us completely out of place!

In her last public appearance on the streets of New York, the model wore ugly sneakers, a white shirt as a dress and … wait a moment, what binds us is a reflective vest with reflective tapes?!

And what’s behind it is not a traffic cone?

Yes, girl Cosmo, we know what you’re asking right now. Has the car broken down and had to wear the vest with the reflective materials from the trunk? Or is it that he has left the catwalks to dedicate himself to direct the circulation of roads? Either option could make sense -well, the second maybe not so much-, but the truth is that Bella was heading to a dinner organized by Louis Vuitton in the city of skyscrapers to show his collection of men for next season, And the fluorescent vest was simply part of her outfit!

The “reflective” look of Bella Hadith that Palmate Mai has also used

Bella Hadith has become one of the most famous and popular models in the world, a job she also shares with her sister Gibe.

This has led her to model for exclusive brands and prominent designers, becoming an icon and influential fashion.

In this context, it was a few days ago when Bella hit everyone during her arrival at a Louis Vuitton event due to a daring garment she wore.

It is a reflective vest, which had 3 large pockets, according to Elbe magazine.

This garment was worn over a long white blouse, which she used as a dress. In addition, he accompanied all this look with reflective tapes and sports shoes.

But in Chile, we also have an exponent that has dared with this reflective trend. This is Palmate Mai, who last November showed a reflective jacket very similar to the safety clothing used by construction workers.

Finally, Hadith and the interpreter of Not Steady are not the only ones who join in this fashion. The singers Kane West and Quaver Honcho have also shown off with this type of hanging.

From the security signal to the protest sign

A successful transmutation, of the object “reflective vest” on a dashboard about “yellow vests” saturating the public space; a successful diversion from a security signal to a protest sign; but a fight of opinion lost, in spite of the initial sympathy which the movement had been able to arouse. A semiotic reading obviously does not exhaust the sociological and historical analysis that is needed, but it can shed light on the reflection on a phenomenon that arises from nowhere and that risks returning to it, for lack of having been able to transform the symbolic capital created in tangible political benefit. No, definitely, there is no immanence of meaning …

From object to subject: a successful transmutation

In 2008, the fluorescent yellow vest, called “high visibility” thanks to its horizontal reflective tapes, became a mandatory road safety equipment on board cars. As summed up the late Karl Dangerfield, more maceration than ever in a poster campaign launch, “it’s yellow, it’s ugly, it does not go with anything, but it can save your life.”

Already used as a sign of rallying in 2014 by parents of students opposed to the reform of school rhythms of Vincent Pillion, or by border workers of the Haut-relief, the yellow vest acquires world renown only in November 2018 when the eponymous movement starts. The change of substance and nature is as rapid as it is radical, in every sense of the word. We are talking about the transmutation of reality by writing, we are there in the transmutation of the object – a banal piece of fluorescent tissue – by the subject – a frustrated, angry citizen, who intends to make himself all the more visible in the public space that he feels invisible in the political space.

But how is this “passage” from one state to another effected? How does one go from having a yellow vest to being a yellow vest, to a roundabout and then to the street? How does the textile object give its name (if no meaning, it will be seen) to the human subject?

From signal to sign: successful diversion

From a semiotic point of view, we thus observe a process of transformation of reality by the effect of a metonymy. The original idea comes, as we know, from a user of Facebook, Laughing Courtyard, who expresses himself in these terms in a video posted on his Facebook account in late October: “We all have a yellow vest in the car. Fuck it prominently on the dashboard, all week, finally until 17. A little color code to show that you agree with us, with the movement, and that is hot, that is not hot. ”

Displayed on the dashboards and then carried on oneself, the “small color code” for signage purposes (to be visible in the event of a road failure) becomes a shared sign (to be visible because of a social breakdown) and ostensibly displayed by thousands of people. French who put it on to denounce the taxes on diesel, the increase in social charges or indirect taxes and, more broadly, fiscal and social injustice. Then, quickly, the wearing of the vest is a radical challenge to the established order, the representative democracy, the political “system” in place – with the support of far-right and far-left activists, populist movements and Troll factories Justinian and Bostonian pharmacies whose #fake-news invade the favorite social media vests yellow.

From the dashboard of the car to the shoulders of its driver, the reflective fabric thus becomes the banner of a global rebellion, both disorganized and “framed” by some, more and more virulent, even violent, if not massive and even less representative of the French population.

From rejection to rejection: a fight of opinion

As in an interminable play, the “acts” follow each other, week by week, weaving a captivating media dramaturgy – in the etymological sense of the term, that is, seduced by a sort of irresistible fascination. Morbid fascination in front of the screens, Saturday after Saturday, for the urban guerrilla scenes which mark each parade but also, more and more, for the violent acts internal to the movement whose irreconcilable fractions are torn apart and finally, as in Lyon or Paris last weekend, for lack of prior ex-filtration, face each other physically. They do not agree on much, but forbid each other to say or do anything “in the name of yellow vests”.

It’s worth remembering about reflections

In schools, the subject of reflections is coming back. They have already started in Leech.

The “Reflective School” reached the students of the Primary School in Leech. Kids dressed in reflective vests and other reflective materials promoted road safety among the local community.

It is on the rural, low-lit, often without pavement roads that such an initiative is needed. That is why students provided with banners encouraging them to move safely along the road under the supervision of a police patrol marched through the streets of the town to draw the attention of residents to the need for such behavior, and thus to reduce the risks in road traffic – explain the originators of the action.

The owners of local shops who received reflective materials from the students also helped in promoting this idea. It’s for customers.

In addition, students of the eighth grade, under the care of teachers, encouraged older people to wear reflections.

Before the evening service, they handed out reflective tapes to adults and especially the elderly. The action was met with great gratitude among seniors. Remember to wear flares, especially now, when autumn, shorter days are coming! – they add at the school in Legalize.