Our understanding of high-visibility clothing is that it’s supposed to keep the wearer from being hit by vehicles, which is why many tow truck operators use them. Others, from cyclists to road ...

But a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests that they could be something of a double-edged sword; while high-viz clothing are more visible to humans, they may ...

Highway workers and many pedestrians and cyclists often wear high-visibility clothing to give themselves a better chance of being noticed by drivers, but new research shows that this type of ...

While some riders despise hi viz clothing and kit, others embrace it for the additional safety it can offer, particularly in poor weather or darkness – really useful in winter, for example.

They're created with polyester fibres extracted from high visibility clothing used by workers in factories and construction sites. Many hi-viz vests end up in landfill – around 11,000 tonnes of ...