Everyone knows that it is wise to use reflective safety vest, but only one in four does.

– Reflector is vital regardless of age. Do you reflex reduces the risk of being hit by 85 percent, says Inger Elisabeth Sagedal, Communications Director of NAF.

Thursday October 17 marked the annual reflection day across the country. The aim of NAF is to get more people to use reflex. Developments in recent years have been positive, yet it is all too few who use reflex.

– All drivers’ terror is to run on a pedestrian. Let us cooperate on the road and make ourselves visible when we are out walking, says Sagedal. Hard to see

2.2 million drivers have experienced almost run on a pedestrian they could not see in the dark. A driver using low beam, the difficult perceive a walking without reflector at a distance of about 30 meters. This means that the driver then have two seconds to react if the speed is 50 km / h and 3.5 seconds in 30 km / h.

– You remember that kids should have the reflex, but often forgets him. Regardless of age is reflective equally important and should be as natural as using a seat belt. Often think consistently that drivers see them, because they see the car, but this is unfortunately not continuing Sagedal.

– A little inattention or backlight from oncoming traffic, making sure the driver does not see it going at all, she states.

The numbers are quite different using reflectors. Then the driver detects the range of 150 meters using low beams. This gives 10 seconds to react at 50 km / h and 18 seconds at 30 km / h.

– The numbers are clear. Use of reflex is a difference between life and death, says Sagedal.

Cyclists also exposed

Also riders should wear reflectors. The bike must have red reflectors at the back and on the pedals or pedal arms should be white or yellow reflectors.

– In the dark light on the bike is essential. All bikes must have lantern front give yellow or white light, and behind it shall have a lamp that provides red light. Reflective and reflective tape on the bottom of the legs makes you as a cyclist is even more visible to other traffic, quit Sagedal.