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In the USA total of 7485 pedestrians were killed on road by road accidents in 2021 as per?GHSA?which increased by 11.5% compared with the previous year. In most cases, pedestrians are not visible to the drivers due to darkness. Children and old age people are more affected by such types of accidents. The analytics of accidents witnessed of increase in pedestrian deaths faster than other traffic fatalities.
Nowadays the average speed of vehicles on road has increased across the world due to better infrastructure because of that it is difficult to stop vehicles suddenly if found any pedestrian on road. The use of high visibility jackets helps a lot to save pedestrians from such types of accidents. Vehicle drivers can easily identify pedestrians from long distances in the low-light area if they are equipped with hi-visibility jackets and it can save their lives on roads.
These types of accidents are prevented by using Hi Visibilities clothing (Hi-Vis) on the road many studies shows that in motorcycle collision number of people who met accidents are very less if they wear high-vis clothing.
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1 年Helpful article! ?? Seeing and being seen is very important in terms of H&S and especially on the road. ??