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Bright yellow safety vests, flashing red lights and a policeman, but yesterday many drivers with more than 50 things bumped past the small children.

In the darkest part of the year, half a dozen children yesterday wanted to make motorists aware of the weakest road users. But despite safety vests did not succeed.

"There are many cars, they see us," said Chief Commissioner André Schmitz. As part of the police's "Glowworm" campaign, the traffic safety adviser had six children from the daycare outfitted with bright yellow waistcoats and flashing red lights, bringing them to the corner of Martin Luther Street, home of the kindergarten Busy Viersen road.

The "Glowworm" campaign is attended by around 100 kindergartens throughout the Viersen district. It always takes place in December, when it is still pitch dark in the morning and the drivers should be alerted to the flashing children. Yesterday morning, however, all rushed by, as if there was no small troupe "Firefly" stood. Even Schmitz shook his head: "You can drive only 50 here, but I think most of them are faster." A sign of how important the action is for the little ones who are soon alone on the way to school.

Schmitz also had a yellow vest on: "If I had the blue police uniform on, no one would see me soon." And when it started to rain heavily, he got yellow caps with reflective materials of the traffic watch and put them on the children and also the parents. Cold it was, but the children had a lot of fun in the action, because of the cold, they hardly stood still, punched each other and kept releasing the hands of their mothers. Only the cars they cared little, the past them rushed past.

Astrid told Eden about her own experiences as a driver with barely visible pedestrians. She finds the equipment especially with the reflective tape, as they distributed the Primus school to the first graders, very good. Jens Schroder, the only dad, and his son Paul (5) are already thinking about the coming year when Paul comes to school. "Are you looking forward to it?" He nods enthusiastically. Isabelle and Luke are also five years old, Noah only three and Jake four. The youngest is Johanna, who is sitting on Mama's arm: "She is only two years and three months old."

Again and again, André Schmitz called the little ones together: "You have to wave to the drivers." Everyone did and rejoiced when a driver from a van waved back to them just as happily. "Who has ever seen a police vehicle?", Schmitz asked in the round. Two fingers lifted. "And did you see the yellow stripes?" The little ones did not have that. "They are there so that we can be seen as well," explained Schmitz.

How dangerous cycling is, everyone became aware of when a student on the sidewalk drove past the children. Schmitz: "We simply do not have cycle paths in the city center, but the children are allowed to ride on the sidewalk for up to eight years and even sometimes up to ten years."