In a recent event, Noida Police has mandated using reflective tapes on the back of all the vehicles, ranging from a two-wheeler to a big commercial vehicle. The move was earlier initiated as a campaign to prevent road accidents due to low visibility during foggy weather, which is a common phenomenon in and around the NCR.
A few days ago, it began as an experiment, where Noida Traffic Police requested people to paste reflective tapes on vehicles passing through the DND Flyway toll plaza. The experiment has now become an essential move. All the people who will now be seen without riding or driving with reflective tape on their vehicle will be fined Rs 10,000 by the Noida Traffic Police. The said fine has now been inducted in the Motor Vehicle Act.
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Usually, all passenger vehicles and two-wheelers come with red-coloured reflectors on their rear as a part of the traffic norm. However, some commercial vehicles are plying on the road, which either doesn’t come equipped with these reflectors or have them broken off intentionally or unintentionally.
The vehicles which already come with the red-coloured reflectors which are not tampered with will not be fined under this new rule. So, for all those vehicles which are being used without reflectors at the rear, it has now become necessary to get a reflector pasted on the back of them as soon as possible.
What is a reflector?
All the motor vehicles sold in India come with reflectors placed on their rear below the tail lamps, or in some cases, on the rear bumper of four-wheelers. While a two-wheeler like a motorcycle or a scooter has only one reflector, the four-wheelers usually get two. These red-coloured reflectors are made of glowing elements like radium, which reflect the light that falls on it even in low-light and worse weather conditions.
The reason behind the use of reflector tapes
The low visibility of vehicles during foggy weather or low light is one of the main reasons for road accidents in India. It is one of the major causes of accidents in Northern India during winters, when even the fine and high-speed highways are clogged with heavy fog, thus resulting in low visibility that hampers the vision of the motorists. According to the records of the traffic police of Gautam Budh Nagar in Noida, a total of 798 accidents took place in 2021, which claimed the lives of 368 people in 2021.
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