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To increase the visibility of your child during his trips, Auto Plus offers until September 12, a safety vest in his back number.

 

We have seen recently with an investigation by the Opinion way institute for Insurers Association Prevention : the path our children to school can be full of pitfalls, even when our kids are accompanied by a relative (75% of parents admit to having had risky behavior in the street, in school or extracurricular trips, in the presence of their children). Given this situation more and disturbing, Auto Plus is to ensure their safety and put up sheltered from danger.

 

The essential of the season!

In his re-entry number (1356), on newsstands until Friday, September 12, your favorite magazine, in partnership with insurers Prevention, offers indeed acquire a “yellow vest” that will make your child more visible in the eyes of drivers, especially when they want to cross the road.

 

Conforms to safety standards EN 1150, fluorescent, with two wide reflective stripes, this vest Velcro closure is perfectly tailored for children aged six to ten years. Essential!

 

To get this valuable safety reflective vest, go so fast in kiosks. It will be sold in exchange for 3.95 € in addition to the 1356 issue of Auto Plus.

“It’s yellow, it’s ugly, it’s not going with anything, but it can save your life”: this goes for you too, dear cyclists! This evening, the yellow vest is mandatory for bicycles, night and / or open road.

 

The basic principle is: See and be seen!

There is much talk of the vest and warning triangle, mandatory for motorists since 1 July (for violations, you will verbalized until 1 October).

 

Cyclists they too are affected by the “extent Reflective vest” mandatory today open road and at night. If the day the visibility is bad (rain, fog, snow …), you are also required to wear. You have the choice between yellow and orange vest: both are approved. They only have the CE and EN 471.

 

What you risk for violations

As for motorists, the offense will be fined until 1 October: if you are not wearing your safety vest in the conditions listed, you risk a fine of 35 Euros. Cheaper than for motorists: for them, the ticket is 90 Euros (minus fine) and 135 Euros (plus).

 

It is useful to remember that the helmet and good lighting is also essential to ensure your safety. The law already requires cyclists equip their bicycles with front and rear lights and reflectors on the pedals, but it is clear that the authorities turn a blind eye. This is intolerable: many people have grazed the accident but who still refuse to equip!

 

The need to equip not gained followers among some associations

According to Cecile Petit, it’s Delegate for Road Safety: “The majority of accidents occur when visibility is low. 20% of cyclists are killed or injured at night, at dawn or dusk.”

 

Despite this, the Association Cubic up to the plate by blaming among manufacturers: “the problem is the bike manufacturers do not put good lighting, should be required to more demands,” says his President Christophe Raved.

 

The association regrets this measure, “is an unnecessary obstacle to bike development.” The enthusiasm for cycling is such a simple reflective vest will not hinder the new bicycle! Cecile Petit replied in turn that “the State shall protect road users, and the stress is minimal.”

 

Some bike manufacturers certainly abusing lights quality of their products, but we need every cyclist takes in hand to move intelligently, without endangering themselves. No longer be assisted!

In a few months, the bikers will have the obligation to hold a vest and will even wear it in an emergency. This new measure is far from unanimous among users of two-wheelers.

 

The decree fell to the Official Gazette in May: from January 2016, all bikers will have a yellow reflective vest. From a practical standpoint, motorbike drivers will wear while driving or they stow it in a compartment of their motorcycle. A priori, the legislation still leaves them a little freedom. However, during an emergency stop of a two-wheeler, the law could not be clearer: users should wear this vest when he fined the edge of the roadway. Otherwise, the fine will be salty. Indeed, the offender will go to the fund by paying € 135 HP. And like motorists, if the rider performs outputs without having with him his tidy vest somewhere in his craft, again, it will pay cash his failure to do so: 11 €. That said, no deduction of points is expected. “Thank goodness,” is tempted to say many seeing bikers with skepticism the implementation of this decree. Moreover, departmental leaders of the French Federation of bikers angry (FFMC) does not mince words to mark their opposition to this new regulation, “If a yellow vest could save lives, we would know,” said Franck Noël, Vosges coordinator for the FFMC. The same man says studies have been conducted regarding the wearing of this famous vest. And according to him, the results speak for themselves: “It does not improve the visibility of motorcyclists on the roads. “Jean-Claude Martin and Christophe, respectively former coordinator and deputy secretary of the FFMC, this new outfit would even be a disadvantage:” There are already many people who wear these vests roadsides, including all those working for public works companies. Those worn by two-wheeler users would be drowned among others. ”

 

For Jean-Claude Martin, if the Inter ministerial Delegate for Road Safety has released this measure, it is only for one and the wrong reason: “If a good conscience.”He added a bit provocative:” I do not take him vest with me when I go out on a motorcycle. Just to see if it makes me a plum! “For Christophe, the decree is downright synonymous with financial waste. For him, if the state should invest money to make roads safer as much to do in more concrete things: “It would be more interesting than each rider gets help to buy a CE approved equipment.”

 

“As a sticker on a windshield”

Luc, President of Moto Club images, is on the same wavelength. He too is against the trivialization of this outfit: “Too many signals kill signaling,” says the manager but felt that motorists assimilate this vest, become too recurrent, in a vulgar sticker placed on a windshield. The notion of caution would be completely lost. Luc, the interest of this decree is tiny: “We will not wear this vest once it is down, having had an accident. Normally it should be used when we perform an emergency stop on the roadside. But on a 2 X 2-way, it’s not possible … At most, the safety vest can be useful if you need to signal danger and temporarily secure traffic at the scene of an accident in the meantime the forces of ‘order. ”

 

Obviously, the new measure is far from unanimous. And for many bikers, it does not address the causes of road accidents of two-wheelers. Suffice to say that the results of road safety, in the months following the implementation of the decree, will be scrutinized carefully…

In Amiens, it is verbalized for no yellow vest … Then to be out of her car at the time of control without yellow safety vest!

 

Amelia, 23, is angry. She does not know how to get out of this incredible situation.

It all starts the night of 25 January 2014. Around 15 pm 0, police gave him the order to stop his vehicle rue Charles, near the cinema in Amiens. She runs. “They asked me for my license, checked my insurance, etc. “Said the law student. Then “they asked me if I had my yellow vest. I look in the glove box, everywhere, I cannot find. One of the two policemen told me he might be in the trunk. I go out and checked, one of them illuminating the chest with his torch. “No yellow vest trace. The young woman is verbalized for this absence, and that of the security triangle, 90 euro fine.

 

The fine comes. She disputes the extent that she realized meanwhile that the triangle was good in the car, stored in a place provided for this purpose in the trunk. The protest is denied, the fine increases to 112 Euros. She rules.

 

On October 21, a new fine arrives in his mailbox: 375 Euros. “I did not know what it was!  “. Amelia went to the hotel taxes for more. “Being out of the immobilized vehicle on the roadway by driver unlined jacket compliant emergency stop.” Basically: be released without reflective vest to go check it was not his vest in the trunk! And the fine is increased…

 

The student went to the police to try to solve this problem, without result. She finally told his case to a lawyer.

The shorter days obliges recently cyclists to be equipped with lights and reflective accessories when they travel early or late in the day. Surprised many after the push when to change the batteries in the lamp or come out her fluorescent yellow safety vest. But beware, the national police Loire before.

 

Wednesday noon, an operation in the city center of Nantes from 7 am to 8:30 has led to the verbalization of seven cyclists (12 controls) for visible defects (11 euro fine): five were driving with defective lighting, two had no rear reflector. Furthermore, a cyclist was fined for traffic with a headset and two others for crossing a red light.

 

The shorter days obliges recently cyclists to be equipped with lights and reflective accessories when they travel early or late in the day. Surprised many after the push when to change the batteries in the lamp or come out her fluorescent yellow vest. But beware, the national police Loire before.

Wednesday noon, an operation in the city center of Nantes from 7 am to 8:30 has led to the verbalization of seven cyclists (12 controls) for visible defects (11 euro fine): five were driving with defective lighting, two had no rear reflector. Furthermore, a cyclist was fined for traffic with a headset and two others for crossing a red light.

What is obligatory (and what is not)

 

Police remind that the following equipment is required: light and red reflector at the back, light yellow or white reflector in front, orange reflector on the rear wheel, orange reflectors on the wheels, orange reflector on the pedals, reflective vest (non-urban), horn and, of course, brakes.