The right lighting on the bicycle is important, especially in winter. In the Police monitored student – not all are safe on the road. From Regina Longhand.
On the daily cycle path to school, it might be surprises, especially when it is in the morning still half dark. “Stop, stop, police control”, the radelnden rows next to the students in Illertissen toward college heard. It’s after seven clocks in the morning.
Most pause scared and make a guilty conscious face because they were caught without a light. Or follow the instructions easier to Continue as the front of the white spotlights and behind the red taillight function at its wheel.
Officials from the police station Illertissen have their Kombi parked behind the bank of bushes on the Mühlbach Bridge. Roland Mars patterns as the competent traffic officer and three other colleagues, equipped with pad, pen, flashlight and safety vest that vorbeiradelnde youth. In the morning darkness, it is not difficult to distinguish “blind” Rader from those with illuminated front and rear lights. The black sheep are quite embarrassed in the majority and almost to fanciful explanations why their light is not working.
“What have we got here forward” asks the official and gets the answer: “A light course which I have just not on.” On the “why not” is the statement that it was very difficult with dynamo operation, in the pedaling. Other traffic offenders explained to the officials that his father had given the male light of sister and others affirm that they have the wheel once just borrowed. Or lamented their bad luck that until just now her light did not work well and the battery gave up the ghost.
It is shortly before eight clock when the last students to push their bike gen school, partly relieved and partly bashful grin. Many were not caught for the first time; other faces familiar Roland Mars even personally from the bicycle test. Cyclist with reflective vest will be safer on road.
“At least you can justify why you late to class will” give them the officer with a smile along the way. Mars is of the opinion that evens the parents blame belongs, if they do not pay attention to the equipment of their offspring, at least until the age of 14. After all, who is older, apply the penal law and is prosecuted by a fine of 20 Euros. “Whether then pay the parents or not is another matter,” said the VerkehrsMarz. From each of the 33 offending cyclists he has name and the name and address of the parents listed, to teach them in a letter about the defects in the iron horses of their children ,. Seven of them are over 14 years old and therefore are asked to pay.
Roland Mars hopes for the educational effect of surprise. The action took place in Illertissen has long held again and should be repeated beginning of the year. Mars but also wants other cyclists’ focal points as in the Realschule in Vöhringen, before school in Illerzell or the elementary school Altenstadt catching young bikers and their vehicles.
It is extremely important for the dark season that cyclists and pedestrians with reflective tape are seen as the most vulnerable road users by motorists in good time. Although in a collision is always the fault motorists, “but it’s not fair to keep him in bad conscience when the cyclist was not clear,” said Mars.