The recently adopted amendment relating to road traffic imposes an obligation pedestrians wear reflective tape outside of the village. What it actually is, why we wear, where you can order and buy?
New requirement concerns the reflective material made of a material from which light is reflected from another source (headlights). Scenario: walk in reduced visibility on the shoulder unlit roads, winding between two villages. Having a handy flashlight or light the way mobile is not enough. Reflective elements here mean especially reflective tape or reflective armband; they are often retractable, some are back with Velcro fasteners.
“Reflective and fluorescent objects are expensive. All sorts of pendants, badges, iron elements, stickers, tape, etc. on hand. For example, take the haberdashery or bicycle stores, “informs on its Website. According to media reports, the reflective elements are sold in supermarkets, household goods stores, in drugstores, in newsagents, post offices and petrol stations.
Reflective tape, which if necessary may be used quickly and easily, it is also possible to buy in a number of different e-shops. Internet shopping mentor Heureka.cz after entering the term “reflective tape” into your search engine offers the first position of the following products found retractable reflective tape Force measuring 3×38 cm. Stands from 15 to 89 CZK, usually around 25 to 29 crowns. “It can be worn rolled through the ear bag or a belt on your clothes,” he wrote in his mini-review of one of their customers’ online store. Other – apparently cyclist – after shopping at again noted that they “just strap straighten and then click over the destination and the tape itself bunched up. Excellent, visible on the leg helps keep the pants to not get caught in the chain. ”
Eureka also sought reflective tape and others. Incidentally, the price of transport is usually far exceeds the cost of the tape itself.
Safety features of reflective material as instructed BESIP best place towards the end of the sleeves, close to the knees and waist level (for example, cyclists and also to helmets and bike). Children then we can buy clothes that are already equipped with elements of reflective materials, as they are already so equipped schoolbags.
Graf “Better visibility improves safety” The reasons which led legislators to adopt amendments to the Act no. 361/2000 Coll. on the road, in the case of reflective elements clearly preventative. Reflective material is visible at night to three times longer distance than white clothing and more than ten times longer distance than the blue dress. These distances; they have a major impact on whether we can avoid the driver or not. Reflective materials are able to reflect incident light to two hundred meter spacing. In contrast, the walker wearing dark clothes is in the dark on the road almost invisible…
“Every year die on our roads than seven hundred people. And pedestrians, which are heading the campaign, are one of the most vulnerable groups. Every seventh person in our country dies in a traffic accident as a pedestrian, of these, one in eight outside the village. And that is worrying, “he said last October during the presentation of the campaign BESIP” We are? “, Focused on the visibility of pedestrians and advocating them to wear safety vest, Transport Minister Dan Tok.
In 2014 was when accidents killed a total of 112 pedestrians, 65 of them at night. On the night of the accident thus accounted for over 58% of fatal pedestrian accidents – outside of the village but it was 79%.
The aforementioned amendment to the Law on Road Traffic came into effect on February 20 of this year.