Now those who like to live by their own rules will not always be able to drive with a breeze. In Russia entered into force reckless driver criminal law… For speeding, violators face a serious fine and even imprisonment for up to two years. Repeat offenders will be punished more severely.
Stavropol region. Night time. Traffic inspectors notice a car that is wobbling from side to side. A young man is driving. Answers questions indistinctly, barely moving his lips.
– There is reason to believe that you are intoxicated.
The driver categorically disagrees with the conclusions of the law enforcement officers, but you can’t argue with the results of the medical examination: the man got behind the wheel drunk.
Unfortunately, during the period of mass events and holidays, drivers experience an unjustified feeling of impunity and self-confidence, “says Dmitry Umansky, senior inspector of the traffic police of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian MIA Administration for Stavropol.
Those who entered the first working week of the new year with these feelings are now treated in a special way. In Russia, a law on a prison term for persistent traffic offenders has come into force. For repeated driving into the oncoming lane or repeated speeding by more than 60 kilometers per hour, criminal liability is introduced. The document was signed on December 30 by the President of Russia. The explanatory note to him said that more than 40% of drivers are not stopped by the fact that they are brought to administrative responsibility for speeding and they are violating again.
You can get charged under the new Article 264 of the Criminal Code if you drive into the oncoming lane three times or seriously exceed the speed limit three times.
Previously, violators were subject to administrative liability with the possibility of deprivation of rights, but now they face a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or even up to two years in prison. But that’s not all. If a driver convicted under the new law in the future will again find himself in the oncoming lane or, like a racer, will press on the gas, the court will be able to sentence him to three years in prison.
True, in the footnote to the law it is noted that the article does not apply in cases of fixing violations by cameras and radars, here auto experts have questions.
“A traffic police officer almost never at the moment stops drivers and does not attract them for speeding, especially for more than 60 km / h. Such violations are recorded, as a rule, if someone posted information on the Internet. And this, of course, is ours. favorite bloggers “, – auto lawyer Lev Voropaev.
The amendments appeared after a high-profile accident in Moscow. In November 2021, autoblogger Said Gubdensky lost control and flew into the oncoming lane on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. He and his passenger were killed. On account of Gubdensky dozens of traffic violations, which he actively shared on social networks: speeding, drifting, driving without numbers and constantly playing “checkers”. In 2020, the blogger was even deprived of his rights for seven months. Good acquaintance of Gubdensky Eduard Biel, known on the Internet as Edward Biel, also became the culprit of the mass Road accident on the Smolenskaya square of the capital. Rammed four cars. As a result, the Volkswagen driver Maria Artemova was seriously injured. She still cannot walk on her own. In relation to such reckless drivers, innovations are justified, experts say, but is it possible to equate drivers who once stumbled with them?
“When a person drove into an oncoming lane in snowfall conditions, when the markings are not visible, they were deprived of the courts in a crowd. It turns out that now those people who were once deprived of their rights not too honestly, getting a second time on a police officer, can suffer very seriously.” , – says Igor Morzharetto.
Nevertheless, experts agree on one thing – the new law should significantly sober up the frequent perpetrators of road accidents. Well, since it so happened that it is bloggers who have recently appeared in the most resonant accidents, it means that now their pursuit of hype will become either safer or very convincing, like the arguments of the prosecution, and can lead to jail.
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