Safety Bracelets & Belts
- A pedestrian is injured or killed every 7 seconds!
- Child pedestrian injury remains the number two cause of unintentional injury or death among children ages 5 to 14. Approximately 585 children ages 0 to 14 are killed each year and there are 33,518 visits to the emergency room due to nonfatal pedestrian injuries.
- 73% of pedestrian injuries and fatalities occur in urban areas and 90% are in normal weather conditions.
- Close to 50% of injuries and fatalities amongst pedestrians occur on Shabbos.
- Orthodox Jews are at an even greater risk when walking due to the lack of sufficient sidewalks and our primary use of dark clothing.
- Consider this: A driver needs 260 ft to see a pedestrian and react at 60 mph.
- Dark clothing = 55 ft of visibility (less than 1 second of reaction time)
- Yellow clothing = 120 Ft of visibility
- White clothing =180 ft of visibility
- Hi-Visibility and Reflective Clothing = safely seen by a driver with at least 500 ft of visibility
- Wearing reflective apparel is proven to reduce visually impaired accidents by as much as 45%. Being Seen can be the difference between life and death!
- Now Safety is Available at a price anyone can afford...
- Reflective belts and slap bracelets are now available
- Slap bracelets specially designed for night time visibility can be worn on the wrist, upper arm, ankles, strollers, bicycles... anywhere you can think of to make sure that cars can see you and your children