About two and a half thousand crowns can be expensive from Saturday evening to pedestrians walking along the road. If you cannot recall at reduced visibility outside the village reflective material, there are risking a fine. The amendment to the Act seeks to reduce the number of collisions with cars of people.

 

Police in the early weeks of the validity of the amendment to the Road Traffic Act focuses more on prevention than on fining pedestrians. “In the region we are planning dozens of events on which we want to inform pedestrians about the new responsibilities and give them items reflective finish,” said police spokesman Svab.

 

The first reflective belts, bags and safety vests handed police in Brno on Thursday. They stopped and informed about thirty people. “Few of them knew about the change in the law,” said Svab. It also recommended wearing highly visible clothing accessories, not only outside the community, but also within them.

Also in schools

 

The police action was also appreciated by Dagmar, who won reflective tape. “When you go in the black over the gray asphalt, tonight it is not hard to see,” she said.

 

Information about the amendment does not spread in southern Moravia only police officers, but also to schools. “Many parents have not registered at all change the law,” said the director Jana mayor. She added that at school events made visible elements that will lend pupils.

 

The amendment of the Act requires the pedestrians when walking along the side of the road or the roadside outside of the village used in case of poor visibility reflective elements. According to the organization based visibility reflective material at night two hundred meters, while a man in a blue dress is seen at about a tenth the distance. At a speed of ninety kilometers per hour is the stopping distance of a car about forty meters. “We therefore welcome the wearing of reflective elements has become a duty,” said regional coordinator.

 

The amendment to the Act is poorly thought out by him

“In practice this means that after the county roads at night can never go at sixty, because I have to reckon with the fact that on them unlit someone moves,” said Cizek.

 

Stricter neighbors

Even stricter law applies in the Slovak Republic since 2014. Pedestrians on the road must wear reflective material regardless of whether they are in the community or outside. “In the beginning, people complained, but now this is not a problem,” Cizek said.

 

Efforts for greater safety for pedestrians felt in sales so far only some traders. “Reflective sell for about twice the size with the past,” said a saleswoman from the Brno trade work clothes.

 

Conversely, any change to recognize goods. “Sales are much yet taken up. Greater interest begins each autumn, when the days shorten, “said Šalanda.

 

Last year, police in the South Moravian region has seen four hundred and thirteen car collisions with pedestrians. “From two hundred twenty-eight happened in Brno,” said Svab.