Reflective elements are still underestimated

Since the beginning of October, police have been trapped by five tragic accidents in which a pedestrian died after a car crash. They became less visible either early in the morning or in the early evening. Even though pedestrians have been obliged to wear reflective vest since last year, they have not even gotten used to it.

 

In the autumn months, just to increase the time when visibility is reduced, similar accidents increase. There have been just two in southern Moravia in recent days. In the first, a pedestrian with severe injuries in the hospital died, in the second died in place. This year, five pedestrians died in the Czech Republic after a guard in October, twenty people in the whole month of the year and twenty in 2015. “Pedestrians should realize that early in the morning when they go to work, it’s still dark and must wear reflective elements,” Alice Mussel, spokesperson for the High School, said.

 

A fine of two and a half thousand

The police soon set off on the field early on, and the pedestrians warned of danger. “I go mostly when it’s light, but now it’s not, that’s true,” said one of the pedestrians whom the police immediately equipped with a reflective stripe.

 

To have a reflective element when a pedestrian goes outside the village, not only in the dark, but even if it is dawning or dimming and there is no walkway or public lighting on the way, it is more than a year and a half obligatory. “Reflective materials are already magnificently visible at two hundred meters and the driver is able to respond at speeds of ninety-five kilometers,” explained Panel from BESIP.

 

By the end of February 2016, pedestrians must carry reflective elements such as a sleeve or waistband for reduced visibility on clothing. The regulation applies to people moving on the roadside in non-lighted areas of the community or outside the area. A part of the amendment to the Act on Road Traffic should primarily increase the safety of pedestrians. If the pedestrians are not in the dark, the fog or the glooms on the road are marked by reflective elements, they are liable to a fine of up to two thousand dollars in block proceedings. In administrative proceedings, the penalty ranges from 1500 to 2500 crowns.

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