Solar Powered Traffic Signs Save Lives; School Zones, Hospital Zones

There are many different styles of solar traffic signs that can help alert motorists to potential dangers on the road they are traveling.  Solar powered traffic signs include slow speed signs, yield signs, pedestrian crossing signs, and deer crossing signs, traffic light ahead in addition to solar powered stop signs.  These solar powered signs make a difference in the number of traffic accidents in and around where they have been stalled.

Solar powered stop signs can have a dramatic impact for motorists and pedestrians near work zones, hospital zones and school zones where drivers are often times distracted and tend to speed without realizing what they are doing or plow through stop signs without seeing them.  Solar powered stop signs placed anywhere pedestrians and motorists coexist can help reduce the number of accidents by helping to alert a driver to what a posted sign is “telling” them.

Solar powered traffic signs use three or four flashing LED lights in order to attract a driver’s attention to the sign so that they will slow down, stop, yield or beware of dangers such as power lines, railroad crossings or emergency vehicles entering and exiting the highway.  These LED solar sign lights last much longer than regular light bulbs; therefore replacing them is not an issue. They are powered by the sun’s energy so there is no need to run an electrical cord or extension cord from an electrical outline to the sign.

Solar powered traffic signs that alert drivers to oncoming traffic in school zones have been used in and around many different college locations where there tends to be more pedestrians then cars.  Other school zones have also had much success with solar powered traffic signs and solar powered stop signs.  Often times when a parent is dropping off or picking up their student there are hundreds of children walking around, in addition to large buses, making distractions inevitable.  With solar powered traffic signs, people are more alert to their surroundings and more lives are saved.

Solar powered traffic signs near fire engine houses or hospital zones help insure drivers who cannot hear the sirens (perhaps the music is too loud) but will see the flashing lights of a stop sign or a bright yellow fire engine sign and heed its warning. 

Large colorful signs posted near hospital zones and school zones are often times not enough to save lives, but a solar powered traffic sign with the flashing red or orange LED lights have been proven to save more lives than a traditional sign.