Agricultural tractors conformity to the Brazilian traffic lighting and signaling legislation

portuguesAumentar a visibilidade das maquinas agricolas torna o trafego em vias publicas mais seguro, reduzindo o numero de acidentes e sua gravidade. O estudo teve como objetivo verificar a conformidade dos tratores agricolas com a legislacao brasileira, dada pela Resolucao CONTRAN N°454, NR12 e NR31, quanto a presencados elementos de iluminacao e sinalizacao para o trafego. O estudo foi desenvolvido em concessionarias de maquinas agricolas de sete marcas, correspondendo a 50 modelos distintos de tratores agricolas de pneus, novos. Os itens que nao estavam presentes na totalidade de tratores avaliados foram a luz de posicao traseira, a luz de marcha a re e as faixas retrorrefletivas. Apenas uma das sete marcas estudas apresentou total conformidade dos itens avaliados. Apesar da legislacao brasileira especificar a presenca dos elementos de iluminacao e sinalizacao para o trafego de tratores em vias publicas, nao ha total conformidade nos modelos avaliados e a legislacao nao e cumprida de forma homogenea pelos fabricantes, o que pode estar relacionado a ocorrencia de acidentes com tratores agricolas no trafego. EnglishIncreasing the agricultural machinery visibility makes public roadways traffic safer by reducing the number of accidents and their severity. The study aimed to verify the compliance of new agricultural tractors with Brazilian law, given by, CONTRAN Resolution N° 454, NR12 and NR31, regarding the presence of lighting and signaling elements for traffic. The study was carried out in agricultural machinery dealers of seven brands, corresponding to 50 different models of new wheeled agricultural tractors. The items that was not present in total tractors sample are the rear position lamp, the reverse light and the rear retro-reflector. In addition, only one of the seven brands studied showed complete compliance with evaluated elements. Although, the Brazilian legislation specify the presence of lighting and signaling items for agricultural tractors traffic, there is not fully comply on tractors models analyzed and the Brazilian law are not homogeneously met by the agricultural tractor manufacturers in the verified sample, what can be leading to tractors traffic accident occurrences.