The days are already noticeably longer than to Christmas, but the night still takes a good 15 hours. Time to put the spotlight on the road is a relatively new Problem: glare-the end of a Bicycle headlight. Until a few years ago only to add a free call, in which it is relatively unimportant whether they Shine correctly on the road or in the air illuminated. In the meantime, however, LED headlights are Standard, in which more and more light for the money.
Together with the easy and all-weather reliable hub Dynamo, this is a huge step forward – unless the lamps are properly adjusted. Some of the eyebrows in such a way that oncoming cyclists and pedestrians themselves seconds of blind feeling. This can involve lights, both usually with only one screw fixed to the Dynamo lights, as well as the, in the meantime, for all of the bikes approved Infectious, their mounts twist. The glare can even for drivers – many of which, according to the experience of the ADAC and Tüv, by the way, about one in three with incorrectly adjusted headlights is on the way – unpleasant. And for pedestrians, which can have an accident in the dark Season of the year, already significantly more often, and visually, now more in the Background, dangerous.
“But, of course, there is no monitoring focus”
experts see the Problem in a relatively relaxed view of what is happening otherwise on the road. “If we see incorrectly set lighting, we are the cyclists,” says Stefan Drescher, head of the traffic accident prevention in the case of the Berlin police. “But of course it is not a monitoring priority.” As an accident cause glare, are not covered “in the statistics and is therefore not evaluable”.
But even the opposite, namely, to sparse or non-existent Bicycle lighting, plays – although considered by many as extremely dangerous felt – hardly a role: In 2016, the lighting defects had been 21 accidents as “causal agents” noted, 2017, in 35 cases, and in the first ten months of 2018 in 14 cases. For comparison: “the use of the wrong road” as the most common cause of cyclists have caused accidents, some 800 Times per year. Lighting defects appeared in the statistics only as a secondary cause of an accident, for example, as a reason for accidentally disregarded the right of way.
In any case, forehead lamps
chief Commissioner Drescher use the cyclists in the face of liberalised equipment regulations “, all the more the duty to pay attention to correct adjustment of your lighting”. Siegfried Brockmann, head of the accident research of the insurers, seconded: the fact that “but every self is likely to be blinded”, should raise awareness. Technical Supervision is in any event unrealistic.
Stephan Behrendt, a specialist Advisor for technology at the ADFC, it is recommended to pay attention to the anti-rotation brackets and to adjust the lamps so that the brightest point of the light cone hits about ten meters in front of the wheel on the roadway. The required sense, in accordance with the German road traffic licensing regulations. Also, the only lights allowed to be used with a mark and not end bulbs, which are not allowed for good reason.
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