Pedestrians and bicyclists can increase their nighttime visibility with pedestrian safety reflectors. A pedestrian reflector make the user five times more visible to motorists and about eight times safer than without while running, walking or bicycling during dark hours. Reflective clothing enhances traffic safety even further. Do you need additional funding? If you are a government agency or a non-profit, you probably qualify for funding of reflector purchases as part of a pedestrian and / or bicycle safety program. See funding.
Reflectors as a countermeasure:
Each year in the United States, almost 5,000 pedestrians are killed in accidents
involving motor vehicles. For every pedestrian killed, 14 more are injured.
According to the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), walking
is 36 times more dangerous than driving, and 300 times more dangerous than
flying.
A large number of pedestrian fatalities result from drivers not being able to
see a pedestrian in the dark. It has been estimated in Europe that about half of
all pedestrian deaths during dark hours could have been avoided if the
pedestrian had been wearing a pedestrian safety reflector.
At Pedestrian Safety, we are dedicated to the sale of high quality pedestrian
reflectors such as CoreFlect, Finn-Nauha and Stavellan.
These have been so successful in saving lives in European countries that the use
of pedestrian reflectors after dark became mandatory in Finland as of January 1,
2003.
About pedestrian reflectors:
CoreFlect reflectors are available in a variety of attractive shapes and colors with
a cord attachment that allows them to swing freely, thus attracting the
attention of a motorist on a dark roadway about five times farther away than
without one.
Finn-Nauha reflectors are elastic, worn around the head, wrists or ankles.
They come in attractive colors, are highly reflective and are comfortable
to wear.
The slap-wrap type of reflector is simply snapped over the wrist or ankle and is
visible to a motorist long before the pedestrian can be seen.