Oleg Petrik, “Record traffic violations must be open”

One of the most discussed topics during plenary sessions of the Supreme Council is draft laws, one way or another related to road safety. The authors of the changes to the law "On Road Safety" were made by deputies Oleg Petrik and Galina Antyufeyeva.

The promise to legislative innovations was the numerous appeals of citizens submitted to the parliamentary committee on legislation, defense, security, peacekeeping, law enforcement, protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens. Car owners complain that traffic violations, in particular, speeding, are recorded from radars installed on civilian, rather than specialized cars (often in motion), and at the same time by persons not dressed in uniforms.

The deputy recalls that any system of photo and video recordings must be preceded by a road sign informing of this that cannot be said of such cars.

According to the results of the discussion, the deputies adopted amendments to the law “On road safety” in the first reading. Their essence is, firstly, in the fact that police officers, in carrying out their duties in organizing road traffic, are obliged to use only official vehicles with the flashing blue light on. And secondly, it is prescribed that photo-video identification of offenses, measurement of the speed limit of vehicles can be carried out by state traffic inspectors on official vehicles in stationary mode.

The deputies supported the government initiative to amend some of the norms of the current version of the Code of Administrative Offenses. It provides for the possibility of informing violators of the Rules of the Road, who were detected using special technical means of photo and video recording of the Safe City system, not only by mail (so-called happiness letters), but also via SM, e-mails. If a person chooses this form of his notification, the cost of a fine for him will be reduced by 10%.

Last year, 44,000 such “letters of happiness” were sent. This is where the Safe City system works. Such a government proposal is also due to the fact that not all mailings reach the addressees, many do not live where they are registered. At the same time, without receiving a letter, violators miss the deadlines for appealing an administrative penalty or the opportunity to pay a fine of half the amount (in the first 20 days).

 The law-in-draft was adopted in the first reading.