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25 child warning vests were tested by the ADAC – the result scares you. Find out here which products could pass the test and thus protect children sufficiently:
The ADAC has tested warning vests for children and is committed to a sales ban on 13 products.
The ÖAMTC examined 25 warning vests for children and found serious defects. 13 products were below the value specified in the standard EN 17353 in terms of their reflective properties. Each second vest therefore does not reflect enough. The traffic club is alarmed in view of the high traffic accidents last year. "More than half of the models examined are therefore considered ‘non-reflective' – a frightening figure, considering that in 2024 in Au…
They should make visible and thus provide protection – but in an ADAC investigation more than half of the child's warning vests fail.
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The ÖAMTC has tested 25 warning vests and has come to an "alarming result". 20 warning vests have been purchased online and five have been purchased in retail.
According to the investigation, 13 out of 25 products failed. Last year, according to the ÖAMTC, about 200 children were injured in darkness in road traffic.
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