Those who do not have this item in your vehicle must pay a fine of 22 thousand pesos.
Approximately 40% of deaths from traffic accidents are outrages, it is why from January 1 will be mandatory that drivers carry reflective vest.
Conaset together the Chilean Safety Association and the Automobile Club of Chile distributed this implement in the O’higgins Park, with the aim of promoting the use of items drivers.
Since 2016, those who do not wear the vest inside the vehicle must pay a fine of 22mil pesos, although the rules so far is not mandatory.
Gabriela Rosende, executive secretary of Conaset said that “this rule is aimed at the driver at the time of an emergency and off the vehicle is visible to other drivers with reflective tape that come on the road, especially where they are high speed”.
Sandon family cannot take another blow. Osmany Sandón Jose Diaz died on Wednesday night in a traffic accident that occurred on the road cordiality, opposite El Pozón.
triple tragedy by accident
Yesterday, at 7 am, the family learned of the accident and not yet assimilated the situation when another unfortunate fact hit them. And in what way.
Knowing that his father had died, Osmany’s daughter who lived with him in New Cartagena barrio sector Pozón entered into crisis. The youngest was 3 months pregnant and gestating in her womb twin boys. After upset with the news, he was taken to a medical center, but the two creatures died. She was saved.
Osmany was known that was 50 and working as a plasterer. On Wednesday, at 7:30 pm, he is riding his bicycle by way cordiality, against the gazebo that is after the Pozón. At that point, a bus company Cootransurb of UAQ-830 plates, which would in direction Cartagena-Barranquilla, hit him.
A hypothesis handled by the police reveals that the darkness of the sector, the mini-bus driver did not see the cyclist, who was not wearing a reflective safety vest.
Osmany suffered multiple fractures and wounds, and was taken by ambulance to the General Clinic Caribbean, where he was pronounced dead.
“From accident we know nothing. Only until today -ayer- in the morning, we found out he was dead because they called a sister to tell. We went to Legal Medicine and found that the body was there, “said Dabeiba Sandón Diaz, sister of the deceased.