While the number of deaths of drivers dropping rapidly, pedestrians killed is still more. In November, they accounted for over a third of casualties. Officers want to tighten the rules for pedestrians - such as having to wear reflective vest. What other changes can be expected on the roads?
Marry one another blue coat and set off in the dark on the road to the next village you can be compared to a suicide attempt. According to a study BESIP you in such attire driver of a moving car and sees the moment is 18 meters behind you. No chance to react. While the number of deaths of drivers in the Czech Republic last summer plummeted, casualties among pedestrians are more and more. Every fifth dead on the road is a pedestrian. This nearly two-thirds die outside of the village.
November statistics are even scarier. Of the 82 deaths in traffic accidents were pedestrians 33. "Now this number is one of the last arguments why next year will require the introduction of mandatory reflective elements for pedestrians. At least, outside the village," said the then chief of traffic police.
That the driver in front of a pedestrian in black, blue or red clothes in darkness able to react in time, he would go only forty. In contrast with reflective elements on clothing a person is on the road to see even 200 meters.
Officers would be glad if required to wear reflective vests or members got into an amendment to the Highway Code, which now is in the House and the members of her would have definitely vote at the first meeting in 2011.
"I think it would help reduce the number of accidents on the roads of lower classes," agrees Vice-President of the House. "I supported everything that brings people to their senses. For me it is absolutely incomprehensible that pedestrians do now. Mainly they should think over themselves," says Interior Minister.
Most MPs, who spoke to MF DNES, would focus on a massive campaign. "On each occasion pedestrian’s reflective elements recommending," says Minister of Finance. "In my youth, I walked three kilometers to the pub and I carried a flashlight," he adds.
Now the question for policy enforcement is the biggest unknown. And experts even think about whether it would not bring on Czech roads even more aggressive.
"Unscrupulous drivers that would probably have found a new excuse - if someone knocked, it argued that it did not have reflective elements," says transport expert Pert Moos. Some automakers have their luxurious types of vehicles equip with night vision equipment, which chauffeurs itself draws attention to pedestrians
Drivers must vest dress accidents since this Sunday, while the reflective vests for pedestrians, which costs about 50 to 200 crowns, so far only considered the vests for drivers it is already decided. From January 1, all vehicles must be equipped with a safety vest that drivers must always dress up when their vehicle malfunction example, injects a bike or a traffic accident. The amendment to the Road Traffic Act, which could start paying roughly from mid-year, will bring on Czech roads and other news.
Overtaking ban on entry to the track or running around gates will now seven penalty points, "mice on the road" for five. It is a maneuver in which die on the roads most people. Much more motorists must have in mind the safety belts and child safety seats for passengers. Here too, stricter penalties. Conversely, for trivial offenses, such as off the lights during the day or driving in the lane reserved for buses, would no longer made no penalty points.