Helmets and other elements of protection

Article 118. Helmets and other elements of protection.
1. Drivers and passengers of motorcycles, motorcycles with sidecar, three-wheeled vehicles, quadricycles and mopeds must properly use protective helmets homologated or certificated according to the current legislation, when travelling both in and out of town.
When motorcycles, vehicles of three wheels, quadricycles or mopeds are provided with self-protection structures and have lap belts and thus subject to technical inspection or moped certification, drivers and passengers need not use a protective helmet, but must use the lap belt when travelling in or out of town.
Bicycle riders must use protective helmets homologated or certificated according to the current legislation, when travelling out of town, except when ascending long climbs, or for medical reasons established in Article 119,3, or in extremely hot conditions.
Professional bicycle riders when competing, and cyclists, whilst training or competing, will govern themselves by their own rules.
2. The installation, in any vehicle, of head supports or other elements of protection will be subject to fulfilling the conditions determined in the RGV.
3. Drivers of cars, buses, goods vehicles, mixed vehicles, non-agricultural vehicle combinations, as well as drivers and auxiliary personnel of vehicles accompanying supporting convoys must use a high visibility reflecting vest, certificated according to Royal Decree 1407/1992, of 20 of November, by which the EU Personal Protective Equipment directive is enacted, that must be provided in the vehicle, when they leave the vehicle and use the road or hard shoulder of interurban roads.