Hella LED Safety DayLights™

 

It is acknowledged from in-depth accident studies that failing to see another road user in time
(or at all) is a contributing factor in over 50% of all daytime accidents. For daytime intersection accidents this increases to as much as 80%.

Source: The Safety Effects of Daytime Running Lights, SWOV, 1997


Driving during daylight hours with your headlamps on, has long been promoted by authorities to enhance road safety. However dipped beam headlamps are designed to efficiently light up the road in front of the vehicle during darkness, whilst causing as little glare as possible to oncoming traffic.

Hella LED Safety DayLights™ (DRL) are designed as forward facing signal lamps to enhance the visibility of your vehicle to other road users during daylight hours. The failure to see a bus, truck or car approaching, particularly at intersections, has been identified as one of the most significant factors in daytime accidents.


Hella LED Safety DayLights™ use 95% less energy than your dipped beam headlamps saving as much as 0.2 litre of fuel per 100km and preserve the life of your valuable headlamp bulbs whilst significantly enhancing the conspicuity of your vehicle and with that road safety. International research has concluded time and again the effectiveness of dedicated Safety DayLights™ (DRL) in lowering the road toll.
Headlamps - Off Headlamps - Low Beam Headlamps - Hella LED Safety DayLights™
 Headlamps Off  Low Beam  Hella LED Safety DayLights™
     


LED Safety DayLights™ are designed as forward facing signal lamps to enhance the visibility of a vehicle during daylight hours. In 2008*, 366 people lost their lives on New Zealand roads and another 15,849 people were injured. The social cost to New Zealand of these tragic accidents is calculated at NZ$3.8 Billion and this figure does not include the damage to vehicles and property.
*(2009 figures stand at 384 fatalities)
 
Using data from studies carried out overseas the fitment of dedicated LED Safety DayLights™ would save New Zealanders from the trauma of between 3% and 11% of road fatalities and between 4% and 15% of injuries sustained by road users. These estimates exclude pedestrians who are equally at danger when accidently overlooking an oncoming vehicle.
(Figures based on a review of Daytime Running Lights, RACU, NRMA 2003)
 

Dedicated LED Safety DayLights™ are signal lamps specifically designed for daytime use and are some 300% brighter in the direction of the oncoming vehicle than dipped beam headlamps.
 

Safety DayLights vs Dipped Beam Headlamps

   

A Durable Social and Enviromental Solution
   
LED Safety DayLights™ offer a one-off cost, ‘Fit and Forget’ solution for
the lifetime safety enhancement of your vehicle during daylight hours.

The social plus environmental savings of dedicated ‘Fit and Forget’, low
power consumption LED Daytime Running Lamps (DRL), based on the
best available data, is estimated at NZ $250 – $600 million per annum.

These figures are best estimates and based on extensive research
carried out on Daytime Running Lamps and on the social and
economic costs of fatal and non fatal vehicle accidents. There
is significantly unrealised potential to decrease accidents on
New Zealand’s roads by fitting dedicated LED Safety DayLights™.
(Figures based on “A review of Daytime Running Lights”, RACU, NRMA 2003)		 "Low power LED Safety
DayLights™ offer a one-off
cost solution to significantly
lower the distressing and
expensive cost of road
accidents in New Zealand,
without impacting on
the environment”

Martin Reinbach,
Managing Director,
Hella-New Zealand Limited

 

  

Features of LED Safety DayLights™

  
   
•  LED Safety DayLights™ are activated when the ignition is switched ON for ‘never forget’ safety enhancement.
• Automatic switch OFF when headlamps are switched ON (DRL legal requirement).
• Grilamid® lens.
•  Universal mount suitable for cars and commercial vehicles.
• These lamps are designed and manufactured in New Zealand for New Zealand’s harsh environmental conditions and to withstand long-term exposure to very high UV levels without fading or embrittlement.
• Fully sealed against dust and high pressure water jets.
• Vibration and shock resistant.
• Ultra long life.
• 5 year warranty.