Reflective clothing is a life-saving tool on roads
A reflective vest can mean the difference between being spotted in time and being fatally struck.
Updated At : 02:30 AM Nov 29, 2025 IST
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A familiar and deeply unsettling scene plays out daily on India's highways and roads. Trucks and cars speed along, with headlights cutting through the dusk, when a motorcyclist or cyclist suddenly emerges from the shadows. More often than not, the rider is helmetless, dressed in dark clothes and sometimes riding against the traffic stream. In that split second, visibility — or the absence of it — decides whether it is a close shave or a catastrophe. The tragedy is that the simplest preventive measure — fluorescent jackets during the day and retroreflective clothing at night — is almost invisible in our road safety discourse.
