Even in places with street lights, as in cities or other bright places, it is not obvious that the driver manages to separate yourself from a lamppost or a parked bicycle, if you are not wearing reflective clothing.
According to Institute of Transport Economics happens about 35 percent of fatal accidents with people who walk in darkness, and only five percent of pedestrians being hit and damaged, use reflectors?
And did you know that seven out of ten almost experienced running at someone in the dark?
The question you have as a driver or passenger experienced almost run on a pedestrian you could not see in the dark, were asked in a recent survey conducted by IPOs MMI for Spare bank 1 Insurance and Road Safety.
71 percent of those polled answered yes, which corresponds to 2.8 million Norwegians.
Many people think that they do not need to use the flare, but we know that it reduces the risk of being hit by 85 percent. Using reflex is the lightest traffic measure one can do yourself, said Acting Communications Director of Road Safety, Carina Penske, to Keno.
Where did the reflex?
And although many people find that a car comes dangerously close, or that they themselves almost skids someone down, we are many who do not use reflectors. Last year’s national reflex census showed that only 29 percent of us use something that glows in the dark.
When driving, we are very concerned about all we do not see because they do not use reflectors, but then we forget it even when we set ourselves from the car, said Penske.
Have you wearing a reflex, you are visible at 140 meters, when the vehicle using low beams. Well, when do you think first of 25 meters.
Near misses and common sense notwithstanding, so timber we not exactly account luminous gadgets, but a so-called slap wrap or a good old fashioned hang reflex we may have at home?
If we only have one reflex, where we should have in case it?
If you are only going to wear a reflex, it should be above the knees, for that is where the headlights hit first, tipping Carina.
But if you dress up perfectly reflective, you have hang reflectors on each side of the body, which hangs above the knees, and one around each wrist. A handbag is also top to decorate with something that glows in the dark.
And if you like to jog, a safety vest is recommending. Otherwise, there are also a variety of sneakers and running tights with sewn-on reflective elements to obtain.
Yes, we have self-adhesive reflectors, reflectors, reflective vests, and reflective stickers, hang reflectors, reflective jewelry and slap-wraps.
But the vainest of us might wonder if there are some cool gizmos that make us visible, without the need to be visible?
One of the novelties this year is a light-reflective spray to spray directly on your clothes, without stain. In daylight is the invisible, but in the darkness lit it. And you wash it lightly with water.
Phosphorescence Norway is also a Norwegian clothing brand that makes wool garments with embedded reflective tape, which ensures that you vote in the dark, without notice reflexes in daylight.
When you go to and from work, to a party or on the town and are wearing everyday clothes or nines, saw fit not always pulling over a luminous vest, Lisa Gustafson, who along with Sire Ural Bake are entrepreneurs of phosphorescence Norway, told Keno earlier.