Tag: road safety

From Tuesday, regulatory use of reflective vest and helmet in La Dorada

“From tomorrow shall take effect the traffic rule which requires regulatory use buttoned helmet and reflective vest for drivers and motorcycle parrilleros in La Dorada again,” said Mauricio Rodriguez, secretary Transit. He also explained that “since the beginning of the month started campaigns socialization on this measure and the respective procedures to drivers who do not comply will be made, and concientizaciones for those carrying minors in the vehicle tank will be advanced” all this will benefit the community, and to reduce accident rates within the town of La Dorada and better culturizar all motorcycle riders to wear the reflective vest at the set times. Road safety, give away reflective vests motoqueros Risk group They do today in tolls porteñas highways, at peak times. In 2015 they participated in 32% of crashes. The move comes on the Day of Road Safety and points to higher risk group circulating in the city. Urban highways (AUSA) delivery reflective vests for motorcyclists in the Illia highway tolls, Perito Moreno, May 25 and Dellepiane.The campaign takes place during peak hours, from 8 to 11 and from 17 to 20, and aims to raise awareness on responsible driving and the use of elements of road safety of motorcyclists, the group most vulnerable on the highways of the city. View also: zero Alcoholemia: approves most of the locals, but it is difficult to apply This data comes from the 2015 statistics: motorcycles represent less than 5% of the total traffic on highways porteñas but participate in more than 32% of claims. 45% of the injured were motorcyclists and 67% of those killed were traveling on a motorcycle, according to official figures released by AUSA.”Because of this notorious vulnerability and considering that more than 80% of road accidents involving the human factor, it is advisable to insist on road safety education. For this reason, as it has done every year, AUSA delivery vests accompanied material information with data and recommendations on road safety, “the company said in a statement. View also: In the city, fewer crashes but increasingly violent Here are some tips to consider: The proper helmet use reduced by 70% trauma. The reflective safety vest is essential for greater visibility. Risky maneuvers or reckless actions, like speeding, are among the main causes of road accidents.

As part of this campaign, information material on road safety and drivers recommendations cars, trucks, buses, vans and trucks will also deliver

Night vision to deteriorate rapidly with age

40-year-olds need four times as much light as a 20-year-old to see a person without safety vest in the dark. – They have night vision which is close to 70-year olds, says head of the Norwegian Opticians Association.

Seeing in the dark is a trait that quickly becomes worse with age. Are you in the 40s, you will notice that your vision has been noticeably impaired while driving, according to news agency Newswire.- People in their 40s have night vision which is nearly 70-year-olds than 20-year-olds, says general manager of the Norwegian Opticians Association, Per Kristina Knudsen Newswire.
Look no pedestrian in the dark

A new study shows that it takes twice as long for elderly people to spot a pedestrian in the dark.

Also read: Would you be able to stop? The survey discovered 20-year-olds pedestrian at 100 meters distance, while 70-year-olds not that person before the 50 meters distance. There are researchers from Queensland University of Technology in Australia and Clemson University in the US who conducted the study. Needs four times more light than 20-year-olds?

Newswire has recreated the survey in the video at the top of the case. They found that dark vision is bad before you reach retirement.

– As 40-year-old need four times as much light as a 20-year-old to read a book. Also in traffic need a person in their 40s much more light to see well, compared with a 20-year-old, says Knudsen.

Read also: Why you should not read in poor light when the eye gets older, release it in less light. It allows the retina does not perceive as much detail as when they were younger. There are increasingly older drivers in traffic. Between 2011 and 2031, nearly 890,000 license holders fill 75 years, according to a forecast from the NPRA. Then it is problematic that the Norwegians are not good enough to use reflex. Fewer than 30 percent use reflex

Asker and Traffic Safety Association checked recently the use of reflector in Brume. They spoke 1.541 pedestrians. Only 29 percent of them lit up in the dark. This was an improvement of one per cent from last year and three percent since 2005, writes Budstikka.

Also read: Now you can knit reflex mittens

Without reflection, a motorist drives in 50 km / h using two seconds to detect you. With reflex makes the driver ten seconds available. There are eight seconds can mean the difference between life and death.

According to Institute of Transport Economics happens 35 percent of fatal accidents in Norway with air in the dark. Only five percent of those who get hit and damaged user reflex, writes Budstikka. This can motorist do

Also motorists can take some steps to improve visibility.

– Clean windshields are a prerequisite to see well in the dark. Check that you have enough window washer fluid and wipers are in good condition, said Acting Communications Director Carina Henske in Road Safety for Newswire.

She also recommended checking that the headlights are working properly, and make sure the lights are clean. If you have poor night vision, and feel that you have poor visibility when driving, recommends Safe Traffic you to run a little slower than the speed limit.

Therefore it is important to always use reflex

Spannavegen one evening in December. I feel quite aware where the car is rolling home. It’s dark but starlit.

I know that a few hundred meters in front of me is a pedestrian wearing safety vest crossing. I know that the lighting is not optimal. I know I look a little worse in the dark than in daylight.

Therefore I follow extra well with this evening.

When I approach the pedestrian crossing, glimpse I barely a shadow on the west side – on the opposite side of where I run.

The person enters into the road. When he reaches the center stripe, hurtling another car past – tight against his ass.

It feels as if my heart skips a beat. Heart rate increases, the palms of my being clammy.

I slows even a little, and let the boy go over the pedestrian crossing.

He is dressed in dark trousers and dark jacket.

No glare, no light, almost impossible to spot.

I do not think the incident is unique.

On the contrary, I think quite a few motorists on Haugalandet can recognize themselves in it to experience being almost-killers.

Like me, I think a lot has also been raging in its horror, and cursed the pedestrians or cyclists who have intimidated them that way.

More strange is that why so many pedestrians and cyclists are still not using reflective when they are outside the car safe seat.

When they themselves are the soft road users to travel on roads ours.

A survey for Road Safety has conducted showed that over 80 percent of those surveyed adults said they went with reflex.

But when the same organization conducted a random count, had only 1 of 3 observed reflection on themselves.

Perhaps this is the soft passengers scourge; you will “just” a little trip out, and when one needs the not take on reflex.

This week should Haugesund Avis spotlight our reflexively use locally. Some convenient, we can say: “We have many readers, but none to lose.” No one to lose.

After a traffic accident sitting there many left, besides those directly affected.

Although no one is killed, although the car only “pushed slightly down” pedestrians, putting the incident his mark on many more than those involved.

Family and friends of the person who was hit, will be told the story, and will make his own reflections on the incident.

But maybe not the event will cause them even do things differently.

Maybe not that they shall go with reflex next time they are looking.

During the winter months I ask often in the same jacket, the warmest I have. In one pocket is still reflective tape, as I lay there for a few years back.

At that time it was important to be a role model for kids.

But it was to remember to take them out of his pocket then.

Do you remember?

To school without fear. Children in Olomouc accompany undergraduates

Unique service for parents who fear their children alone venturing bike to school without reflective vest, started recently in Olomouc Ride2sCool Association in cooperation with local Palacky University (UP). It offers children accompaniment in the form of college volunteers, who little bikers along the way they oversee.
Olomouc Ride2sCool Association in cooperation with Palacky University offers escort children in the form of college students who oversee the little bikers not only the way to school, but also in the opposite direction. | Photo: Tomas Frait, MF DNES
Nontraditional school cyklodoprovod association began offering in mid-May. Accompaniment, which provide students of the Faculty of Physical Culture UP, to which should, in future, to join their colleagues from other disciplines, yet uses eight schoolchildren.
Instructors have the morning to pick up their so-called collection points are in the village Křelov-Břuchotín the city in the New World, on New Street and Litovelské street.
“Soon they will be added post Neředín where he signed one girl. She found herself instructors, he would like to ride with them. Regarding schools, the project has so far involved Elementary School and St. Ursula Zeyerova, “explained a member of the association Ride2sCool Jan Hoffmann from the Faculty of Physical Culture UP with the fact that the first two weeks of pay for accompanying parents, now paid seven crowns per ride.
“Our goal was that the service was more expensive than a child’s ticket for public transport. Otherwise, the whole principle works so that parents accompany children ordered through the reservation system, “he explained.
The association was inspired by Australia and the United States
Instructors for the safety of cyclists handing out small before every ride safety vest.
“The condition of the wheel correspond parents. They must also equip children helmet, “said Hoffmann. The association was inspired by her school bus, which tie the children to school, for example in the USA.
“We decided to bike so that the children could before and after school stretch. The bike is also, of course, more environmentally friendly mode of transportation than the bus, “explained Hoffmann.
A similar road safety service is currently only operates in Australia. In the Antipodes, however, escorting fend parents who alternate in the heats.
“Maybe to do once we arrive in our country and our service is no longer needed,” said a member of the association.

Minister of Transport: The reflective vest must be accessible from inside the car you.

As from January 1 must wear the reflective vest, next to the triangle and the fire extinguisher kit as part of emergency vehicles.
Transport Minister Andrés Gómez-Lobo emphasized today the importance AND putting it before leaving.
“It has to be accessible from inside the car, the cabin, because if naturally a person would have to put to get off the car, for example to change a wheel or had a problem on the road, you have to not get off the car without the safety vest to find the vest, “he said.
Secretary of State confirmed that the audits by the end of weeklong Christmas harden.
At least 500 thousand people will leave the metropolitan region today. It is also expected that 280 thousand cars go by these days.
Gomez-Lobo warned that “there will be many controls alcohol throughout the country, Senda and police, ambulances also stationed at these checkpoints to make the breathalyzer directly.”
“There will be a very tight control about road safety over these weeks, and I would call on the people to be responsible, and if they will take not drive, and if they will not manage to take,” said the minister.

To see, be seen: many controls this Monday in Maryanne

This is one of the golden rules of road safety. The police will conduct numerous checks, essentially preventive throughout the department.
Captain Pascal Vidrequinest the commander of the squadron departmental road safety. It exposes the device that will be in place this Monday, January 25, in Maryanne.
Why organize prevention “Well see and be seen”?
The days are getting shorter and unfortunately every year accidents occur involving pedestrians or cycle. Many people are unaware that since 2008, wearing retro-reflective vest is mandatory for motorcycles and cyclists with reflective clothing, open road. Not to notice her on a road at night or in foggy  weather, may cost you your life, and endangering the lives of others, whether by car, bike or on foot.
How will unfold that day?
Eighty police will mobilize. They will be present throughout the day and basically when visibility is reduced from 7 to 9 am, and 17 am to 20 pm. Motorists, cyclists, pedestrians will be sensitized about thirty checkpoints set up throughout the department. We also recall the importance of controlling its visual faculties: the view is the most sought direction for driving.
What do you monitor?
The lighting of vehicles is in particular, the proper functioning of traffic lights. We will also verify that people put out their flashing at intersections. This is a preventive action. Moreover, we propose an alternative to prosecution; people will have five days to come into compliance. This, however, concern only minor offenses: all is not allowed. We will, as a safety vest for people who do not have and give to schoolchildren neon keychain to hang on the satchel.

Put on safety vest to reduce possible accident

From the new traffic law into force, on 1 July 2011 until 19 August this year, a total of 555 road accidents happened cyclists with safety vest, they killed 24 and injured 522 bicyclists. It also had the participation of cyclists in traffic accidents happened injured 15 pedestrians, bicycle riders and one of three co-skater.
During this time, the unregulated pedestrian crossings and traffic lights regulated happened 53 cyclists crossing accident 16. Crossings have been killed during this period, two cyclists, one regulated and one unregulated pedestrian crossing traffic lights.
Most accidents happen cyclists in the usual way; such accidents have happened three years 268. Signalized intersections regulated by the cyclists happened 147 traffic lights controlled intersections 32, 20 intersections, traffic signs, bicycle path crossing another road and public transport stops 16 in three accidents.
Police and Border Guard police said Police Commissioner Rhino Tamaki cyclists often forget that they are not driving on pedestrian crossings over the right of way.
“Although the road users seem to know their rights and use them, it often forgets rights come responsibilities. However, the rider must give way to a pedestrian crossing on the vehicle and make sure it’s safe. As a result of the collision, the victim is always the weaker side of the road traffic regulation and thoughtfulness to prevent incidents, “said Tanoak.
Police and Border Guard Board have noted that, following the entry into force of amendments to the Road Traffic Act, which allows cyclists on pavements, pedestrians are frequent clashes between the rider and the sidewalk.
“Traffic Act has indeed provided the immediate vicinity of the pedestrian walking path of the rider to ride at the same speed and must not endanger pedestrians, alas, it sees a pedestrian moving at the same speed of cyclists pretty rare,” said Tanoak.
He said that road safety is undoubtedly the key to all traffic participants in cooperation with each other, and the sighting. Positive Tamaki has said that the bicycle is becoming a routine traffic picture, which they counted, and they are noticed.
«Noticing the side, but the riders themselves can do so much, using vivid colors of clothes, darkest time of reflective vests and bike lights. Wearing a helmet could be more elementary than annoying habit of responsibility, since the helmet may save people in case of an accident or a fall of more severe injuries. It is also basic security equipment and careful rider acting as a model for the children, who often take over an adult pattern of behavior, “said Tanoak.
He added that it is definitely safe cycling culture in shaping a major role in the cycling-related infrastructure. Tamaki rider himself has said that the traffic safely and securely with ease, certainty, however, should not thereby be transferred to squander uljusele.
Cyclists will provide an understanding of the security of the traffic rules, the rules applicable knowledge and understanding of other road users’ behavior and taking them into account. It is also essential to the existence of bike paths and lanes, which would encourage the right place and properly operate, “said Tanoak.
This year, 126 traffic accidents happened rider injured 125 and killed one rider. Last year, at the same time dismissed the accidents of life six and wounded 110 cyclists with reflective vest.

 

Children and traffic – every age group has its own problems

As of today, 208 injured in traffic less than 18 years of age, and killed the two girls, both of whom were in a car accident at the passengers. Roughly divided into accidents so that half of the children will be injured passengers, the rest either pedestrian or driving any kind of device manager. These accidents where the child is himself an active role as decision makers, as well as a sense of culpability divided almost in half, and slightly more than half the cases, a child is injured in the accident.
Aside from the young fellow a passenger involved in the accident, the traffic, the children are the most error as foot passengers. It is quite logical that most have trouble crossing the road situation, precisely because in this situation, get into cars and so-called children of the same level. The driver’s side here is ensuring the road safety of the first rule of a reasonable driving speed of their locations in the vicinity of the road where the kids can get into. Individuals should be able to notice the warning signs, and not only the traffic signs. For example, a dog noticing the road and go through the head the idea that somewhere in the vicinity can also be a boy or a girl who goes along with the so-called dog.
Basically, you can prevent many childhood accidents for pedestrians with safety vest contribute to keeping anyone who travels on foot. In order to is a good example to show them and, if necessary, intervene simply pointing out the mistakes of others. Troll came down from the bunch meeterviiekümnene character still the second row, and in the worst case will not even see the traffic light. If a bunch of adults hasty ban on the fire despite the move begins, goes a little person unwittingly by them and promising to fire the approaching speed of the car, he did not even think about. The next traffic light is reaching back; however, he had already learned to go when you can, not when you had permits.
Ranked follows the young cyclists happened in road traffic accidents, which this year has been 28 doing shows in the last 12 months of accident analysis to pedestrian accidents, the age group 6-9 and older have less than that, and then the bicycle accidents are going to more frequent just 10 years of age upwards. Biking to help prevent traffic accidents in the rules of the knowledge, skill and proficiency in other drivers of two-wheeled chair. It is also worthwhile to prepare for the worst, and always use a helmet that is under 16 years of age and the mandatory reflective vest, which makes the rider a much more significant. The new traffic law, the possibility of wheel to use the crossing to be approached with extreme caution, however, because unlike the cyclists from pedestrians are not the prerogative of the zebra. More often sees urban traffic also unacceptable picture of a cyclist behaves according to the traffic light or other traffic conditions, when the driver once, when a pedestrian, and only as a last option, the driver defaulting cyclist.

Increasingly, parents give children with reflective clothing in road accidents in the shade of the young moped riders. Highways Agency 12-month analysis shows that nearly a hundred moped accident happened in the 40s moped drivers were under 18 years old. In 2011, in the latest accident, 22, and 13 of them have happened to a young moped driver’s fault. When it came to mopeds related laws in terms of a large gray area, it entered into force in July traffic law is here brought some clarity, and perhaps starts to spread the notion that the controller is actually the same as a car ride. Also, these driver requirements are not something a lot more lenient or less important. In any case, it should be remembered something that might be called eksponentvõrrandiks security – the higher the speed and the driver has less baggage of knowledge and experience, it should be cautious.
Uljust and team spirit does not seem out of the young people are not crying, asking or threatening. Enough only for the clarification and general understanding that the traffic violation is not cool, and do not pop or get yourself a youthful mistake in traffic or cause serious trauma to a friend. A colleague, Raul ROM from the Road Administration has said that although the bad circumstances coincide, the accident is inevitable; they are not necessarily the facts. And precisely these “facts” we must avoid the appearance.

Improve road safety is important

At the end of last year they were made subsequent installations, in order to improve road safety, completely and visible from a distance of several hundred meters of active cat mesh Soleplate.

One of the installations took place at the much frequented national road No. 3 in. Installation of active point of studs concerned the intersection, the release islands and the edge of the road.

In turn the plant’s active cat meshes on the national road No. 15 in the vicinity of Wrzesnia and provincial road No 251 in Murczynie in improving safety in hazardous arcs. Early warning drivers against sharp bends decide their safety.

Unfortunately, in Poland, active cat eyes are still rare despite the fact that provides a 10-fold greater visibility and greater durability and performance in demanding weather conditions and at night than standard reflective tape. Nevertheless, the road operators are increasingly turning to new technologies.

In addition to the extremely important aspect of security, active PEO Soleplate are completely, so you do not generate absolutely no maintenance cost, and their long life cycle allows to improve traffic safety in the long-term time horizon.

Road Safety should be concerned

There is a story that has gone largely unnoticed, members who taught the Spanish Chair of Road Safety and Mobility of the International Institute of Political Science call for modification of the General Rules of the road to avoid the “impunity” of cyclists. To prevent this impunity his brainy solution is mandatory to wear a helmet, safety vest with a number identifying the rider and a safe. All this arguing that we defend a risk to the safety of pedestrians and other users of the public highway.

The truth is I do not know where to start, it’s funny that people still think or believe that everything can be solved on the basis of spending money and to punish. This only makes me think (or think badly), this chair is financed by a company that can benefit from some of these rules proposed. It comes to my head the study that was done on all the dirt that had coins, carrying germs, and you wore when you saw that the digging had commissioned a study known Credit Card Company.

It saddens me to see that after studying all the problems that exist or may occur in the street by the coexistence of cars, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. the rider is identified as guilty, because I guess you will have arrived at this conclusion after making a good study, documenting, looking accident statistics, which becomes a serious study.

Well in my humble opinion I think they are wrong, not everything is arranged to bleed the user base. It was taking too long to leave someone to suggest somehow taxing bicycles now they are in a sweet moment, the use of bicycles has increased and revenue must be removed somehow. If you really want a good coexistence among users of public roads have to start by investing in education, and I mean in just teaching a list of standards to be met by each affected party, should be taught to respect and sharing space .

Besides that you have a safe and an enrollment generates me much doubt who or how to do it, what if your son driving with his bike on the sidewalk also need insurance and registration ?, from what age? Are the long pedestrians in reflective clothing will also ensure?

I repeat, that is not the end of this chair or this study, but I smell me wrong, I do not think they want to solve a problem, if not benefit from a temporary situation for trouble where none exist.