Reserve reflective vest is mandatory for car

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.