Reflective vest is cool

The 1st grades in Håkvik promise to use a reflective vest.

 

Thursday was National Reflection Day. This was highlighted by the fact that Narvik Municipality and the police distributed reflexes to the 1st and 6th grades.

 

Distributed reflective vests

Those in the first grade were given yellow reflective vests, while those in the sixth grade were given reflective bands that can be used on arms or legs.

 

“Those who are in the 6th grade and who are sponsors are given the task of making sure that they use reflex in the first. And you in the first-class must make sure that they in the sixth class also use reflex,” says Sigbjorn Normann at Vei and park in Narvik municipality.

 

Must use reflex

Sebastian Haugan Johansen (11) and Linnea Overbyhagen (11) are in sixth grade and are sponsors of the first.

 

“I’ll try to use the reflective tape, at least in the evenings,” says Sebastian.

 

Linnea thinks she gets to use her reflex tape often because she tends to go to several places in the street in the evening.

 

“It is fun to use a reflective vest, and we are using it,” the two say.

 

Students know well why reflex is important.

 

“It is important that we are not driven by cars and such,” says Linnea.

 

“There can also be a trailer, and it is important with reflex when we go down to the shore in the evening,” says Áslat Hogbakk Sarre.

 

Police officer Mats Aamodt thinks it’s good the students have such good attitudes.

 

“It is dark in the morning, evening and night, and it gets darker. So it is important to use reflex to be seen,” he says.

 

He has experienced meeting road users without reflex and knows they are hard to see. He recalls that it is extra dark and difficult to see walking without reflex now before the snow arrives, and especially when the asphalt is wet.

 

Use reflective material

He encourages everyone to use reflex, both children, adolescents, and adults.

 

“Wear too much reflex rather than too little. Wear both reflective vest and reflective tape. This applies to both children and adults,” he says.

 

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