Sentences with phrase «protect vulnerable road users»

The ordinance, called an act to «Protect Vulnerable Road Users,» is believed to be the first of its kind in the country, and would mandate trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds to be outfitted with side guards to help protect cyclists, keeping them from being swept underneath the wheels in what's known as a «right - hook» turn.

As well as assessing how well cars protect their occupants, Euro NCAP tests how well they protect those vulnerable road users — pedestrians and cyclists — with whom they might collide.

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This change will make our roads safer and help protect not only blind and partially sighted people, but pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users.»

Chris Hume, partnership manager at GoSafe, said: «Our continued focus on 20mph limits around schools is part of our commitment to safer communities, and to protect the most vulnerable road users; our children.

The head and the torso of the dummy, TNO concluded after the crash, were «properly protected,» and the rigged Volvo's airbags demonstrated that vulnerable road users have a lot to gain if terms of fewer debilitating injuries and fewer deaths if cars start being equipped with external air bags.

While other jurisdictions have enacted legislation to protect cyclists as «vulnerable road users», BC's laws are largely dismissive of bicycles.