From mid-September
varies mandatory car equipment. Drivers of newer cars no longer need to carry a
spare wheel, on the contrary, mandatory pack a reflective
vest. To
January 1 can also be replaced first aid kits, which will be newly instructions
for first aid, PVC or larger scissors.
In less than a
month will be able to drivers of newer cars hit the road without a spare wheel.
This allows them to decree on obligatory car equipment from the workshop of the
Ministry of Transport, which will take effect on September 15.
Since then, the
drivers only if they reserve a car, or let her take out and replace it must be
set for emergency repairing tires.
Apostasy
obligation to carry in the car fifth spare wheel is not the case for all
chauffeurs. Reserves will have to continue to carry motorists who have a car
where the spare wheel is part of the so-called crumple zones. In such vehicles
could in the accident fifth wheel drivers save live. If he was not in the car,
safety car is rapidly reduced.
"Automakers
and their distributors are published on its website a list of types of cars for
which it is possible to delete the provision. For example, Auto will publish
its list and on the website of the Ministry of Transport," explains Jacob
from the press department of the Ministry of Transport.
Reserves fall
primarily for newly manufactured vehicles. Some automakers as domestic Skoda
will provide some type of reserve without it. Without the reserves will be able
to ride primarily drivers of newer cars. For example, those that are still
manufactured and who’s new no manufacturer will equip margin.
Why ends reserves?
Ministry justifies
end spare tires mainly because in the Czech Republic is very dense network of
assistance services to drivers in distress and help him replace the wheel. On
the market are also very effective kits for emergency tire repair, "This
is actually a spray. It is applied to the valve and into the tire is pumped
foam that fills all the cracks. The price of such sets is around CZK 1,200 and
enough to seal the two wheels. The set does not help in cases where the driver
his flat tire and literally rolled out of it and incur irreparable hole,
"says Karle, co-owner of the garage Prague Cafes.
Each car will have
to be safety vest
New decree on
mandatory equipment has far more changes than removing the spare wheel. It is
essential in particular the obligation to carry a reflective vest in the car.
This change is valid from 15 September. "This obligation is closely
related to the new amendment of the Highway Code, which drivers dictates that
the road moved only with a reflective vest. New start paying probably next
year. The decree so now drivers orders to carry vest in the car, after which
they could not make excuses for anything, "says Josef from the Ministry of
transport.
Another
significant change relates to first-aid kits. Their content has rapidly
expanded. It will be added, for example, instructions on first aid, which
recently introduced in the Slovak Republic. Newly equipped pharmacy wills also
isothermal film. A novelty is a resuscitation mask, replacing the current mask.
There will also larger scissors. New aid kits will be about 70 to 150 crowns
more expensive than current ones. The exchange chests but drivers with reflective
clothing still do not hurry.
