The Huffington Post and other media recently carried stories about the use of traffic mimes in CARACAS, the capital city. The job of the mimes is “tame lawless traffic”. About 120 mimes dressed in clown-like outfits wagged their fingers at traffic violators and pedestrians who streaked across busy avenues. Apparently in Caracas motorcycles “roar down […]
Tag: motor vehicle occupant safety
Amish jailed for refusal to display safey triangles on buggies
Steve Robrahn wrote on the Reuters website a report about 8 Amish men who were jailed after refusing to pay fines for failure to display orange-red safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies. Their sentences ranged from 3-10 days. “The defendants contend that paying the fines would amount to complying with a law that violates their […]
Brazil’s new child passenger protection law stricter but faulty
The News and Notes section of the August 2010 issue will have a comment on the new Brazilian child restraint law, which went into force last month, aiming at a stricter control over child motor vehicle occupant safety than most such legislation worldwide. It amends the already rigid 1998 Brazilian Traffic Code by not only […]