Since the switch to winter time last week, the night falls even earlier and pedestrians and cyclists are not necessarily aware.<\/p>\n
Nearly 50% of pedestrian mortality occurs between October and January.<\/p>\n
In low light, the visibility of drivers is greatly reduced. A pedestrian or a cyclist is then visible only 30 meters by motorists in normal traffic conditions. However, at 50 km\/h, it takes about 25 meters for a car to stop.<\/p>\n
The usefulness of the retro-reflective vest<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n To avoid taking risks, pedestrians and cyclists must be very visible.<\/p>\n A simple way to wear a safety vest or reflective clothing and\/or wear clothing and accessories with retro-reflective tape<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/a>s or stickers.<\/p>\n These devices make a pedestrian or cyclist visible more than 150 meters, five times more than normal.<\/p>\n As a reminder, the wearing of a certified retro-reflective vest is mandatory for any cyclist traveling outside of town, at night, or when visibility is insufficient.<\/p>\n Cyclists must not forget that lighting is mandatory on bicycles (front light\u00a0yellow or white, red taillight, orange reflective <\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>material<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>s on the pedals and wheels).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the switch to winter time last week, the night falls even earlier and pedestrians and cyclists are not necessarily aware. Nearly 50% \n Blogs on reflective clothing and reflective material. Be seen, be safer. <\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safereflective.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}