With Reflective vest free or fine

The Traffic Civil Guard distributes them to pedestrians who use rural roads at night.

They pass from eight thirty in the morning. It has not yet dawned completely and a neighbor of Campo Limeira, accompanied by her young son, leave home, cross the PO-223 to reach the marquee where they will wait for the school bus. The image occurred yesterday and observed by a patrol of the Civil Guard of Traffic of Monteverdi. The agents informed the mother that the regulations establish that in this type of travel, however short, it is mandatory to wear some reflective garment. At the same time that they gave her a vest for her and her little one, she recognized that she did not know the obligatory nature of the measure.

Similar situations found daily Traffic patrols when traveling the road network of Monteverdi. The campaign began taking advantage of the change of time and the fact that there are fewer hours of sunlight. They are distributed every day because you have to make pedestrians aware that they have to be visible to drivers, "said Sgt. Mariano. The head of the traffic subsector, who accompanied by civil guard Javier, said that is why the initiative is carried out "between sunset and sunrise." The recipients of the reflective vests are those pedestrians who travel through urban roads outside the town.

From his experience on the Monteverdi roads, Mariano is convinced that these information campaigns are catching on, in such a way that it is increasingly common to see pedestrians using some type of garment or reflective piece. Special mention deserves the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago, since it is rare to find someone who does not use this type of security devices.

This effort of Traffic redoubled in a few days prior to a time that expected to be complicated at a circulatory level throughout the province due to the proximity of the festive bridge of the Constitution and the Christmas holidays. You cannot lower your guard. Galicia is one of the autonomous communities that most fatal abuses recorded and must be aware of the pedestrian.

It is clear that vests or reflective garments can save lives. In this regard, he recalled that his employment is mandatory, so it provided for the possibility of sanctioning a violation of this provision with a fine of 80 Euros. When you tell a person that you are going to report him / her for not wearing the vest, he / she do not assimilate it in a pleasant way. People have to become accustomed to its use is mandatory, "he said, while adding that while" there has been some sanction for not wearing the reflective vest,” in principle, are limited to inform.