Children from five provinces begin today winter holidays. Police with safety vest reminds that while you relax on the slopes or the ice you have to remember the basic safety rules.

Winter holidays are provided in four sessions. As a first – from 16 to 31 January – rest will be students from the provinces

Officers are calling for caution and announce increased checks on the roads. – Already start police actions related to the winter holiday. More patrols will be on the roads, routes away from the cities, resorts and such. We remind you that in the designated areas will be conducted inspections coaches that transport children and youth camps. Of course you can also ask the police to carry out such a control bus before leaving children; if they notify parents before police could reach the place of departure – said Andrzej Browarek the press team of the Police Headquarters.

Let’s check carrier

In Warsaw, the fixed point will be located at Torwar. During the inspection will be checked the technical condition of the bus, the driver’s psychophysical efficiency, its powers and sobriety. After such a control bus driver receives a protocol.

– If your child goes to camp, let’s see exactly carrier – since the company operates, to what extent, or provide adequate insurance and alternative transport in the event of failure. Check also where to take our children to the resort’s call, make sure that everything is in order. Let us take care of it, to have direct contact with the tutor – marked Browarek.

The basic principles of safety should also remember those who themselves go on winter holiday. – First of all dostosowujmy speed to the conditions on the roads can be slippery, it may snow. Do not makes up speed. If possible, before we leave, let us pause. In the car should have a warm drink, food, even blankets – it can come in handy when we had to stand in a traffic jam, for example. Because of difficulties – he added Browarek.

Valid also a record, which gives the police the possibility of license suspension for a flagrant violation of traffic rules; Police occurs to the court for the temporary withdrawal of the driver’s license.

On the indulgence police do not have to count also those who will lead “to double the gas.” Regardless of the sentence (if the content of alcohol in the driver’s blood is 0.2 to 0.5 parts per thousand – they face a driving ban, and including up to 30 days in jail; if the concentration exceeds 0.5 per mille of alcohol, the driver threatened to 2 years in prison), the court has a mandatory rule cash benefit in the amount of not less than 5 thousand. zł in the case of a person for the first time committing this act, and not less than 10 thousand. zł, when a person has once again guided vehicle in a state of intoxication.

He reminded that children under 16 years of age should go skiing or snowboarding helmet. – Department of helmets protect us from serious injuries, a good option for young skiers who do not feel more confident on the slopes, are reflective vest. This makes it very easy and helps in the situation if there was a dangerous incident on the slopes or when the skier cannot control over the skis – added Browarek.

He said police officers patrolling the slopes will also check the sobriety of skiers and “eliminate the ski pirates, those who drive recklessly and pose a threat to others.”

– Let us also remember that for fun in the snow, Tobogganing need to choose a safe place, away from busy streets, intersections and traffic routes. Let us recall the children and they remember that skating can ride a specially prepared for this purpose ice rink. Let’s not go under any circumstances, even if it seems to us that the ice is thick on the frozen lakes, canals, ponds. Seemingly thick ice can at any moment collapse under our weight – stressed.

The police with reflective tape also remind that the rides should be organized only under adult supervision. – Sanki should be combined with a thick, durable rope, so as not to come off while driving. Do not attach them to the car, because you can end up tragically – he added.

What you have to remember on the slopes?

He says Adam Marasek of Tatra Voluntary Rescue Service have to pay attention to the fact that skis were “properly matched to our weight, our skills, to where we go.”

– You have to follow the rules and regulations that apply on routes to the ski resorts, we have to choose routes, ski slopes for their skills. When the difficulty of the route exceeds our skills, it will not be fun to drive for us and will be the possibility of an accident, to contract an injury, and why, if skiing is to be fun – highlights Marasek.

As noted, there are three types of routes in terms of difficulty – most difficult are marked in black, hard – red, and the easiest are marked in blue.

Marasek advises that at least at the beginning of learning to ski hire instructor. – We learn most of all safety. We teach how to navigate the slope, how to overtake, like turn to the movement, as in the case of a car – to observe those who go to the mountains, not to be najechanym not to cause a collision – says one of the instructors Marek Marzec.

Popular ski resorts are ready to begin with the winter holidays. Although located on the slopes of a small amount of natural snow, administrators of tourist lifts during cold weather managed to artificially dośnieżyć route.

In the mountains are open all the major ski resorts, there are also extracts the Warmia and Mazury – there on the frozen lakes you can go sailing ice – sand yachting, as well as the increasingly popular kite-surfing.