Although Saturday is a new obligation for pedestrians wear it outside the village reflective materials, police its performance checked. Police anywhere in the country from moving control actions and along roads appear to have no patrols that pedestrians informed about new responsibilities.

It is early Sunday morning, still dark. The law on compulsory reflective retro-reflectors for nighttime pedestrian pays barely thirty hours. The driver, who drives along the north Bohemian Route 13 and is headed to Teplice’s sober. Walker crosses him and end up with severe injuries in hospital. Whether they had armbands, police do not know – Rescuers have more urgent task than to investigate. They are fighting for his life.

Yet it is clear that after this weekend and night-walkers stop dying. Because of them MPs accepted norm – cars last year killed 131 passersby, most of which was in darkness without reflective vest. If the driver all pedestrians can be seen easily, it would save dozens of lives every year.

The new rule is indeed on paper, but as found by MF DNES, the police in any county from moving up action, whether it two thousand pedestrians under the threat of fines comply. Neither appeared at the road patrol that pedestrians on new responsibilities specifically informed.

“The police in their patrols anyone so poorly visible not notice,” said the spokesman of the North Bohemian police Alana. Whether they had tape all pedestrians, policemen or just not looking, did not specify.

Cell phone in hand is not enough

In Karlovy Vary plan to educate the beginning of March, the South Moravian police spokesman said his colleagues “are governed preventive philosophy” and handing out free reflective tape.

The region also includes a place where police just since the beginning of this year counted ten collisions with cars and pedestrians. That is double compared to last year. Town Hall because even ordered the lights turned on in half an hour earlier than before.

The law does not say exactly how a reflective element to look, nor does it regulate accompanying ordinance. Is determined only that it must be the material from which the reflected light from another source. People who are accustomed to go to the pub, for example, with a flashlight, they must purchase reflectors, even if their flashlight shone no matter how.

“It is not enough to have a lighted handheld flashlight or cell phone. Walker must be visible from all sides, and especially towards the road, “explained police spokesman in the Region Dana.