Active for several weeks in the Mainz traffic police, the police officer Hans Escher has the task to distribute reflective vests handed out to kindergartens in Mainz and in the district of Mainz to the individual day care centers. Now he has gotten rid of the first hundred in the day care center and in the painter Becker day care center. The rest of the 3000 copies will be distributed in the coming weeks. During excursions and walks, the children can then wear them as needed, so that motorists had better perceive them.
The high visibility vests were sponsored by companies, in this case the architects Schumann from Mainz. For the official, as he said, it was interesting to know how many the children already knew about safety in traffic and that was quite a lot, what they had learned in Sabine, responsible for the traffic education in the Kita. You know, bigger children use the street side, smaller ones the house side - at the edge of the road you have to stop and wait for the teacher's command, then look at both sides, reach out.
Escher said: "Afterwards, we briefly discussed the purpose of the reflective throws: the driver can see a child from 150 meters away and not from 30 meters - so can take much better consideration and brake." This demonstrated Escher in the darkened room by a boy, first without a safety vest, then put in a corner of the room. "The children's surprise was quite big, especially as the child was then illuminated with a flashlight, which clearly illustrates the effectiveness of the throw-over," says Escher.
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