Pedestrians, without the reflective vest on interurban roads, the next traffic target.

Traffic does not want carelessness on the road. According to what has been known, he wants to end the problems caused by pedestrians traveling on roads. There is already the obligation to wear reflective clothing when we move to invade the asphalt of the road. However, although until now they have turned a blind eye, from now on they will begin to find those who do not use it.

The exhaustive application of the norm will begin in the Autonomous Community of Galilean. A region in which it is often possible to meet the inhabitants of small villages and towns by moving between the urban centers on the roads.

A phenomenon that contributes to this is the dispersion of the population. In the north of Spain, there are usually distances of several hundred meters between the houses. This characteristic makes people walk on the roads in the usual way.

Little traffic, a dangerous excess of confidence

Most of these roads have very little traffic. It may seem that it makes them safer, but nothing is further from reality. The surprise of being with a pedestrian suddenly or a car without noticing it makes us more prone to react in a bad way.

According to the data of the General Directorate of Traffic, last year 135 pedestrians died from being run over, 44 more than in 2017. These victims are those counted in interurban roads and died within 24 hours after the accident.

Most of them occur on roads of the second order, such as those that form the backbone of the Garlic provinces.

Education and awareness

This will be the weapon of the administration, together with the sanctions, to prevent the number of deaths from increasing. In Galilean, a campaign will be held with the objective of raising awareness among residents of the importance of the use of the reflective vest. The vest must have reflective tapes. Another way to help people make use of the reflective vests will be the distribution of 700 units. All of them among the population of the rural nuclei, where they usually walk along the roads.

These measures seek to alleviate the only number that has increased in the statistics of deaths of the past year. We can say that once the results of 2018 are known in terms of traffic victims, only the section of pedestrian abuses on the road has grown.

It should be remembered that this is not a problem only of those who move between towns walking, also it is for those who have a problem with the car on the road such as a puncture or a breakdown. It is in these moments when the wheel is changing or waiting for the crane when the abuses occur.