Pedestrian fatalities without reflective vests

First of all, the better the report: the number of deaths in traffic accidents generally falls. The worse: still does not significantly reduce pedestrian deaths. Last year 545 people died (at least since 1961), of which 111 were pedestrians. And the culprit? In 90 cases, he was a pedestrian in 21 cases.

In addition, pedestrians are the most vulnerable group of seniors: While three or five pedestrians died at the age of 24. At the age of 55+, there was 66, 59 percent of all victims.

The most common tragic pedestrian mistakes are sudden access to the road or under-estimation of the speed of the approaching vehicle. Drivers are disproportionate driving speed and lack of dedication to driving.

Pedestrians most of all road users are doing at night. Last year it was 59.5 percent of all the victims in their ranks. With the introduction of mandatory reflective vests from February 2016, however, there is a slight shift to the better at least during the day: three people died in the blind spot last year, not one last year after the reflexive elements.

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For more than a year, pedestrians in the Czech Republic have a duty to wear reflective elements, especially when they have reduced visibility outside the village or in a village where there is insufficient lighting. In practice, people are always forgetting or trying to "shine" with the mobile - pointing to the road to see for themselves. But the car does not see them. As Roman Bud sky says - transport expert and PR campaign manager You can do it - reflective materials are irreplaceable in autumn and winter.

Outside, it is already dying, drier more often, the first fog appears. How to use reflective materials correctly to see the pedestrian?

Reflective tapes should be placed above the right ankle and above the right wrist. The road should be left on the road, so it is necessary to place the reflective accessories as close as possible to the road so that pedestrians can see them as soon as possible. It is only to be added that the pedestrian must make the reflections obligatory to be marked as diminished visibility when it goes out of the village on the roadside or on the edge of the road in a place not illuminated by public lighting.