Six people died on the roads last year

Pedestrian safety is one of the priorities of police officers in the Highlands. This is why various traffic safety actions focusing on the visibility of pedestrian road users are taking place.

Last year, policemen in the Sonatina Region surveyed a total of 101 traffic accidents involving 120 pedestrians. "In these traffic accidents, six people were killed, thirteen suffered severe injuries and 92 pedestrians were injured easily in accidents. Only nine pedestrians escaped the accident without injuries, "police spokesman Dana Overtook informed. Even though the number of accidents decreased, the tragic consequences were the same as a year earlier.

Most accidents, exactly seventy-seven, happened in the day. Four pedestrians died there. Frequent shame is the passage outside the transition. "The pedestrian is obliged to use the pedestrian crossing when crossing the road when it is within fifty meters away. The pedestrian crossing is on the right, "the spokesman reminded. It is not allowed to enter the crossing just before the approaching vehicle. Likewise, they may not overturn the railing or other obstacles on the road.

Accidents that occur in the evening or night can be effectively prevented by the use of reflective materials.

"It is an obligation which significantly contributes to the reduction of the risk of collisions of persons with vehicles in places that are insufficiently illuminated while missing the sidewalk," said Overtook and added: "With the reflective tapes or reflective vests, the pedestrian can be seen at a distance of 200 meters so that the driver has the ability to respond adequately. "

Two tragic accidents involving pedestrians took place last year on the D1 motorway leading to the Highlands. In August, in a passenger car crash, one of them crashed a thirty-four-year-old construction worker. In September, the car crashed a seventeen-year-old man who, for unproductive reasons, entered the tram of the lorry under reduced visibility.

They delivered fluoride vests for students of School No.23

It is for them to drive more safely on their way to school. The measure was well received by the students.

In the framework of the Safe School Path program of the Municipal Security Secretariat, transit personnel delivered a vest with reflective tapes on Tuesday to the students of School No. 23 of the gas district, with the legend of a said municipal program.

The measure seeks to make students move more safely on the way to school and that the drivers of the cars can identify them quickly to reduce their speed when they see them moving, especially on Eva Perón Avenue.

According to detail from the Municipality, the proposal was well received by the teachers of the school and also by the children themselves who had no problems in putting on a safety vest and get on their bikes.

Accidents pile up: Tobogganing carries the danger with it

While in adults, especially leg injuries are the result of toboggan accidents, in children, the head is primarily at risk. Therefore, wearing a hard hat can be life-saving. Otherwise, bring reflective tapes on hands.

In Tirol, an average of 300 people injures each other while sledding so hard that they have to be treated in the hospital.

The sledding accidents of last week in Tirol and South Tirol were shown how quickly a harmless winter fun can turn into bitter and sad seriousness. A particularly tragic end took, as reported, a sleigh ride on the Bitten, in which a mother with her eight-year-old daughter hit a tree. The woman was seriously injured, the child was dead on the spot. In Mature on New Year's Day, a 60-year-old woman had hit a lantern and suffered leg injuries as well as a 30-year-old German a day later in Virgin when he drove against a wooden gang. On Thursday afternoon, a seven-year-old girl from Italy finally injured her back after losing control of his sled on a sledding hill in Seinfeld.

While in adults especially the lower extremities are particularly endangered in toboggan accidents, it is the head of children, says Claudius Thomism, director of the Univ.-Clinic for Neurosurgery in Innsbruck. "When tobogganing, you can easily reach 30 to 40 kilometers per hour. However, if you hit your head against a stationary obstacle, then 15 to 20 km / h can be dangerous. "The reason for this is the enormous forces acting on the skull during an unrestrained impact. "The brain is suddenly decelerated quickly. And because of these forces, the brain can tear itself in, "explains Thomism. Hemorrhages between the meninges and bones can also lead to delayed complications leading to death. The helmet should, therefore, be standard equipment for tobogganing for adults, but especially for children, says the physician. Finally, this distributes the impact forces on a larger area and thus protects the underlying head. "I'm not usually a big friend of duties. But sledding would make me want to wear helmets, "says Thomism.

How important the right equipment, and especially the wearing of a helmet while sledding is, it is also referred to the Board of Trustees for traffic safety. One should not understand tobogganing as a child-friendly winter program, but as a thoroughly demanding sport, which also depends on the right steering and braking technology.

For an accident-free tobogganing pleasure, the Austrian Alpine Club recommends sturdy shoes next to the helmet and a headlamp and reflective clothing with reflective materials in the dark. On toboggan runs, you should do without plastic bobs.