When a car with a flasher is moving nearby along the road, some get lost and try to free the road by any means, while others, on the contrary, continue to move as if nothing had happened. It is very important for the driver to understand when to pass a car with a special signal, and when to drive on his own. Correct assessment of the situation on the road will help to avoid emergency And traffic violations which threatens with a fine in 2019.
When cars with a special signal pass
To avoid confusion when you need to let a car with a special signal pass, lawmakers have compiled a list of specific cars that you cannot do without:
- ambulance;
- fire department, Ministry of Emergency Situations;
- police, patrol;
- traffic police;
- cars that are used in government agencies.
Other vehicles are also equipped with special signals, for example, vehicles involved in road repair and transportation of dangerous and oversized cargo. But such cars do not always have privileges over other road users.
The provisions of the traffic rules say that if a car with flashing lights appears on the horizon, the driver's task is to clear the row so that the transport passes.
However, if there is no way to rebuild - the adjacent lane is occupied - you can’t break the rules, which means you can’t give in either. If a car with flashing lights used in repair pavement, stands in the middle of the road, it draws attention to itself, pointing to a neat detour.
Penalty for failing to give way to a car with a special signal
Situations when in 2019 the driver may need to move to another lane to give way:
- If special vehicles are moving near the intersection.
- If special vehicles move into the lane in which your car is moving.
- A car with flashing lights performs a turning maneuver.
Suppose a driver violated traffic rules and did not give way to a car with flashing lights, what threatens him for this in 2019? In fact, the punishment is not so big - the fine for not allowing a car with a special signal to pass is only 500 rubles in small Russian cities, in St. Petersburg and Moscow a little more.
Such penalties are valid only for those cars on the body of which in addition there is a color scheme. If it is absent, the fine is reduced to 100-300 rubles.
Judicial practice knows lengthy judicial debates, during which the traffic police tried to prove the driver’s offense, but the traffic rules are so imperfect that if the driver is defended by a knowledgeable lawyer, the offense report is likely to be withdrawn. For example, there are cases when the owner of the car was fined for not giving way to an ambulance, on which the beacon was not turned on due to a malfunction. The court proved that the malfunction of the special signal is by no means a problem for the driver, so the fine is considered incompetent.
Can a driver's license be revoked?
If the offense was obvious, the driver will not only have to pay a fine for not allowing a car that is driving with a special signal, but also part with the rights for 3 months. This is possible if the driver is stopped for traffic violations by a traffic police officer at the scene of the offense. The decision cannot be appealed only if the driver did not switch lanes to the car with the beacon turned on, in other situations return driver's license is quite real.
You should not lose sight of the fact that you can lose your rights if you missed a car with a special signal and at the same time violated other traffic rules - hit a neighboring vehicle or overtook it, thereby creating an emergency, possibly crossing crosswalk without letting the pedestrians through.
A driver who has not missed a car with a special signal while in a state of intoxication will pay a much larger fine, plus his rights will be withdrawn from him for a period of 1 to 3 years.
To appeal the decision, you must contact the traffic police or take statement of claim to court. Most drivers who are confident in their rightness prefer the second option for solving a problem situation, because. traffic police officers rarely make a decision in favor of motorists.
The deadline for filing a complaint is 10 days after receiving a decision on the misconduct. The complaint, written by hand, is accompanied by a resolution, certificates and a photo from the scene.
How to give way
In order not to get into trouble and avoid problems with traffic police fines, you need to know the law well. If a car appears nearby with special signals on and a color scheme on the body, it is necessary to give way to traffic and change lanes, but only if this maneuver does not violate others traffic rules. Assess the situation as follows:
- If your vehicle is stopped at this moment, wait until a car with a flasher passes, and only then move off.
- If the car was moving, you should stop and let it go ahead.
- When rebuilding to another road line consider the rules and the possibility of creating an emergency - the latter cannot be allowed.
A frequent picture that can be seen on the road is that traffic police officers patrol at intersections, punishing motorists for misconduct, including if an ambulance or a fire truck is involved.
Is it worth increasing the fine for not allowing a car with a special signal?
Penalties for violating the rule on passing a car with a special signal are constantly growing. Drivers do not seem to mind, they only ask one question: for what purposes are they increasing penalties? If in order to replenish the state treasury at the expense of those who violated - in this way the government solves its financial difficulties. If such measures actually reduce the number of cases of traffic violations, then this makes sense.
Drivers of ordinary transport and with special signals complain about the lack of elementary respect for other road users among some motorists. For example, if the flasher is turned on right at the intersection, when the other owner of the car is no longer able to react in time and miss the ambulance.
Ambulance drivers, in turn, dream of video recorders that could capture traffic violations. It would not hurt to adopt foreign experience in caring for ambulances - in America, each car is equipped with a special remote control that allows you to switch traffic lights to the green light at any time, and therefore the path to rescue those in need is always open, and controversial issues are minimized.
Such small gaps just cause a lot of resentment, so increasing the fine will only aggravate the situation. Psychological surveys have shown that Russian drivers for the most part perceive other road users as rivals, competitors and aggressors, while abroad they treat their neighbors on the road with tolerance, understanding and sympathy.
The Russian government conditionally supported a bill that would increase the punishment for drivers for failing to pass an ambulance. At the same time, it refused to increase the punishment for obstructing the movement of vehicles of other emergency services, for example, the fire department.
Now the State Duma is considering several bills proposing to strengthen sanctions for drivers who interfered with emergency vehicles on the road with flashing lights on. Now for interference in the movement of an ambulance or fire brigade, a fine of 500 rubles and deprivation of rights from one to three months are provided. Two initiatives propose to increase the fine to 30 thousand rubles, and deprive the rights for a period of one and a half to two years.
One draft, already adopted by the State Duma in the first reading, introduces an increased penalty only for not allowing an ambulance to pass. The second tightens sanctions for obstructing the movement of all emergency vehicles with flashing lights on. The country's government supported - and then conditionally - only the first initiative. "Conditionally" means that, according to government experts, the document still needs to be worked on.
"The bill was supported by the government only if it is finalized for the second reading," said Vladimir Gruzdev, Chairman of the Board of the Ayur, Vladimir Gruzdev. "Now there are significant comments on the initiative. this offense. At the same time deprive the special right, in this case the right to drive a vehicle, only a court can. In the course of revision, it is necessary to decide who and how will record the offense and prepare materials for submission to the court. It is important that the proceedings must be conducted in the presence of a person. Punishment will not be given in automatic mode on the grounds that the violation was recorded by cameras on the roads. In addition, in this case, it will be important to prove that it was precisely because of the actions of this particular driver that the ambulance could not arrive on time to the patient and provide assistance. So both the court and officials who will prepare the materials, it will be necessary to study all the circumstances.
But the idea to raise fines at once for other emergency services did not pass. Government experts did not see convincing arguments why it is necessary to introduce increased protection for other emergency services. A driver who prevents firefighters from passing risks being a pedestrian for three months, isn't that enough?
Therefore, for the time being, it was decided to think about raising fines only for interfering with an ambulance. Here the argument was the increased social significance of the problem. "The current legislation does not take into account the negative consequences of not providing an advantage in the movement of the ambulance, which may be expressed in the failure to provide medical care", the authors of the bill explain.
505The new law provides for much more serious criminal and administrative liability for attacking doctors and blocking special vehicles. The most severe punishment is 4 years in prison. The work of ambulance doctors is increasingly reminiscent of a violent action movie in which luck is not always on the side of good. Doctors visiting patients - often "heavy" and even dying - are sometimes attacked with fists, and even with knives. Ambulances without remorse are blocked by cocky car drivers, and even health workers don’t even talk about swearing at themselves - they’re used to it. But soon the hooligans who try to assert themselves at the expense of doctors and patients will have a hard time.
Rudeness that caused death
Most recently, Russians were struck by the story of auto-rude from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Ulyana Lobanova. Due to the grumpy nature of this woman, a young guy died in January. An ambulance team responded to a call to a 21-year-old patient on the evening of January 10, 2017. The problem was serious, so the carriage with the special signals turned on reached the place - Tsiolkovsky Street - in three minutes.
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However, the doctors were able to get to the patient only after another ten minutes. The entrance to the courtyard of the house where the man was dying was blocked by a car. Thirty-year-old Uliana Lobanova was driving a foreign car, and her husband Roman was in the passenger seat. Ulyana decided that she did not want to miss the ambulance - and it does not matter at all that the doctors are rushing to a seriously ill person. She just doesn't want to, that's all.
Showdown doctors with arrogant auto-rude lasted about ten minutes. When the ambulance finally got to the place and the doctors got to the patient, it was too late. The young man died in the very ten minutes for which the Lobanov couple detained the doctors.
Under current legislation, Ulyana was only threatened with an administrative fine of 500 rubles for blocking the road. True, netizens, having learned about the incident, were so outraged that they even created a petition demanding that the woman be put behind bars. But, unfortunately, public outcry is not always enough to punish the villains.
Fantastic boors and where they live
Then, in January 2017, a case of blatant rudeness was recorded at the other end of our country - in St. Petersburg. On the afternoon of the 25th, an ambulance arrived on an urgent call to house number 42 on Novocherkassky Prospekt. Medics were able to get to the patient without any problems. An elderly woman was waiting for help, the condition of which the doctors assessed as serious. Having loaded the patient into the car, the doctors tried to drive out onto the road. But that was not the case: a man in a Porsche blocked the way for a car with special signals. The young man decided that his pride and dignity as a motorist were more important than human life, and refused to let the ambulance through.
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An argument with a cocky foreign car owner was filmed by a desperate paramedic. The man, blocking the car with the patient, said that the ambulances appeared in this yard too often, and demanded to give him an advantage. In the end, the motorist came to threats.
"I will find you!" - said the owner of "Porsche" to the paramedic filming him, accompanying his threat with an obscene gesture.
The video, filmed by a doctor, hit YouTube and caused a storm of indignation on the network. The name of the intractable driver quickly became known - it turned out to be Alexei Kononov from St. Petersburg. In the end, the case went to court.
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According to the law, Kononov was threatened with the same 500 rubles of an administrative fine, or deprivation of rights for a not too long period. But the very prospect of being punished, apparently, seemed disgusting to the man. And miracles began.
Police officers found Kononov the very next day, January 26. Two protocols were drawn up against the man: for not giving preference to a car with a special signal, as well as for dirty, illegible car plate numbers. The owner of the Porsche did not agree with the accusations of law enforcement officers and decided to appeal the decision of the police in the Magistrate's Court.
But the man did not come to the meeting on his own complaint, scheduled for February 6. Kononov said that two days before that, a scene from the nineties had played out in his life: supposedly on a dark Saturday evening, not far from the house, two bandits in black attacked a Petersburger and treated him extremely uncivilized. Having beaten the car driver, "men in black", according to Kononov, took away a huge gold chain worth 240 thousand rubles from him, and also conveyed greetings from a certain "Roman Pavlovich".
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The Porsche owner even found a couple of "witnesses", but it quickly became clear that the whole story with bandits and gold was a fantasy of an inflamed imagination. And for such fantasies, it is no longer administrative, but real criminal liability. For a false denunciation with a forgery of evidence, a Petersburger could well have been sentenced to six years of a real term.
True, the judge is still deprivation of rights for three months. The sentence to Aleksey Kononov was handed down on March 1. But neither the court decision nor public censure made the motorist from the Northern capital feel ashamed and consider his actions. In May, the man appealed the verdict, saying he was not guilty. The appeal was rejected.
Threats, beatings and bullying by dogs - pictures from the daily life of health workers
But the history of the boor at the Porsche did not frighten the St. Petersburg motorists too much. In May, journalists reported on a similar case. Only this time, the health of the child was at stake.
On the evening of May 2, an ambulance team took a sick baby from Parashutnaya Street. But leaving the arch medical vehicle with special signals turned on, a man on a Kia blocked it. The irritated driver said that, according to the law, he supposedly should provide an advantage only to cars with the inscription "Resuscitation". When asked what the law was, the man replied:
“Normal law! You're not carrying a dying man!"
The statement of one of the doctors that there was a child in the car did not touch the nervous owner of the Kia at all.
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On the same day, May 2, medical workers in the south of Russia, in Pyatigorsk, were threatened by aggressive motorists. There, the men not only blocked the ambulance, but also threatened the doctors with a knife. Zealous motorists were detained by employees of the National Guard. As it turned out, one of them had already been convicted.
Swearing and threats, however, are not limited to all brawlers. There are many cases when brawlers rushed at doctors with their fists and caused them quite tangible physical harm. Just a week before the conflict with a knife in Pyatigorsk, two women from Tatarstan were injured.
A resident of Naberezhnye Chelny, Vitaly Vasiliev, decided to call an ambulance to his house on the evening of April 23. The 51-year-old man was frankly drunk. After receiving help from two female paramedics, he decided to amuse himself with a fight. Vasiliev attacked the women and began to beat them up - including with their feet. As a result, both paramedics were injured.
This time, the Criminal Code came into play. A criminal case was initiated against Vitaly Vasiliev under article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings committed out of hooligan motives). Under this article, a man faces imprisonment for up to two years.
And five days later, on April 28 of this year, a situation occurred in the Leningrad Region that goes beyond all understanding. A drunken man set an ambulance dog on the paramedic - moreover, the woman at that time was trying to revive his equally drunk wife. As a result, the dog bit the doctor, and a criminal case was opened against the man.
Instead of penny fines - a criminal case and a term
Back in January Investigative Committee Russian Alexander Bastrykin said that cases of attacks on doctors in our country have become too frequent. Then the department raised the issue of protecting the rights of health workers - as well as the fact that punishment for interfering with their work should be as serious as obstructing the work of the police.
Irina Yarovaya undertook the creation of a new bill with the support of the head of the health committee, Dmitry Morozov, and the Minister of Health, Veronika Skvortsova. In early April, a draft of the new law was submitted to the State Duma for consideration.
First reading new development already accepted. Now, apparently, avtohams will no longer be able to get off with a meager fine. The actions of hooligans will be punished depending on the consequences they entailed. So, if the patient’s health was harmed of moderate severity (without a good reason), the brawler can pay a fine of up to 40 thousand rubles. And serious harm to the health and death of the patient (as in the case of hooliganism by Ulyana Lobanova) will entail criminal liability - up to imprisonment for up to four years.
To new law earned, he must pass two more Duma readings.
Margarita Zvyagintseva
Car owners who do not let an ambulance pass will be deprived of driving license for a period of one and a half to two years. This measure can be applied in cases where the delay of doctors to the patient did not lead to negative consequences. If they have come (for example, the patient has died), the driver will face criminal liability: punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to four years will appear in the new article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Obstruction of the provision of medical care." The corresponding bill of the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya (“ United Russia”) and a group of deputies, the Committee on State Construction of the State Duma intends tomorrow to recommend adoption in the first reading. The document has already been supported by the government and Supreme Court However, experts note that in a situation with non-letting of special vehicles, it is not the size of the fine that is important, but the inevitability of punishment. In addition, it is not yet clear how to act in a situation where the driver cannot give way to the ambulance for objective reasons.
Two interlocutors of Izvestia in the relevant Duma committee explained that we are talking about establishing responsibility for threats against doctors and attacks on them in the performance of professional duties, as well as for not allowing an ambulance to pass. The corresponding bill was introduced to the State Duma in early April by Vice Speaker Irina Yarovaya and head of the health committee Dmitry Morozov (both United Russia). Later, about 60 more deputies joined the sponsors. The bill provides for amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, as well as to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes.
According to the document, administrative liability is established for obstructing the legal activities of doctors. So, if a doctor is not allowed to see a patient, a fine of 4,000 to 5,000 rubles or arrest for 15 days can be imposed on the violator. If we are talking about not passing an ambulance, the driver faces a fine of 30 thousand rubles and deprivation of rights for one and a half to two years (a similar punishment is provided for driving while intoxicated). Now, according to the Code of Administrative Offenses, not allowing a car with a special signal is punishable by either a fine of 500 rubles or deprivation of rights for 1-3 months.
However, administrative liability will come only if the patient was not harmed as a result of the actions of third parties. If the patient died or his health was seriously harmed, the violators will face a criminal article. It is proposed to introduce a fine of 40,000 rubles, compulsory work for up to 360 hours, or corrective labor for up to one year for causing harm of moderate severity. Four years of imprisonment awaits violators in the event of the death of a patient or infliction of grievous harm to his health. Such measures will be provided for in the new article 124.1 of the Criminal Code "Obstruction of the provision of medical care."
Articles 115 and 119 of the Criminal Code “Intentional infliction of minor bodily harm” and “Threat of murder or grievous bodily harm” also propose to include liability for committing similar crimes against citizens in the execution of official duties. In the first case, the violator of the law may face imprisonment of up to two years, in the second - up to five.
Earlier, the government and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation supported the bill, but pointed out a number of its shortcomings. The Supreme Court, in particular, drew attention to the uncertainty of the concept of "creating barriers to access to the patient." It "does not have a specific content", follows from the court's review, and may entail "wide discretion" of the law enforcer.
The press service of the Ministry of Health, to whose data the authors of the bill referred when it was introduced, was unable to provide Izvestia with an operational comment. Chairman of the interregional public organization of motorists "Freedom of choice", State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Lysakov ("United Russia") doubts that the proposed law will work. He recalls that the Code of Administrative Offenses already provides for punishment for not allowing cars with special signals to pass, and it is “quite adequate.”
The problem is not in allegedly insufficient sanctions, but in the absence of the inevitability of punishment, - said Vyacheslav Lysakov. - It is necessary to make sure that the existing sanctions achieve their goal, and if they do not work now, then the new ones will not work either.
He also recalled that only a court can deprive a driver of his rights, but an inspector, and not a camera operating in automatic mode, must fix the violation. At the same time, there are not enough traffic police officers on the roads, and such cases are rare.
It is practically impossible to monitor the movement of special vehicles from point A to point B, - the deputy noted.
The driver may not let the special transport through due to lack of space for rebuilding or for another good reason, he stressed. How to consider the actions of the driver in such situations, the bill does not explain.
We need to start resolving the issue with the total equipping of ambulances with video recorders, and for each case of such a violation, transfer the file to the traffic police so that they fine the violators, - said Vyacheslav Lysakov. - You can increase the amount of the fine, but it is necessary to increase the inevitability of punishment.
According to the parliamentarian, it is not advisable to single out ambulances in a separate group, since people may also suffer due to the delay of firefighters or police.
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The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case due to the death of a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, who died when the driver of a foreign car and her husband did not let an ambulance pass. The case received a huge response due to the recording of the DVR with the boorish behavior of the man in the passenger seat. Earlier it was reported that a woman can get off with a fine of 500 rubles.
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on January 10, the driver of a foreign car did not give way to an ambulance, and her husband began to insult the ambulance driver and advise him to “learn the rules.” The recording of the incident has already been viewed nearly 1.2 million times.
An ambulance was on its way to rescue a 21-year-old boy who had a sudden attack of suffocation. The doctors arrived at the right house three minutes after the call and they had a chance to save the patient, said the deputy head physician of the city ambulance station. The elderly driver and the female paramedic were afraid to go on foot - the passenger of the car behaved too aggressively.
There was a chance. For the first six minutes, the heart can react to adrenaline, that is, beat. Therefore, they raced and flew in order to be in time in these first minutes. No one will say that we could save him, but he had a chance. Unfortunately, someone decided for him, and this chance was taken away from the person.- Galina Kulikova, Acting Deputy Chief Physician for the Medical Department of the Ambulance Station in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
brother of the deceased young man, who called the doctors, and then gave him artificial respiration, ran out into the street and saw the situation with a foreign car. According to him, only the screams of people from the windows forced the driver and her companion to clear the road - but it was too late.
A woman was driving. And he got up and blocked the way for an ambulance. I think he was drunk and that's why he acted like that.
The car was driven by 30-year-old Uliana Lobanova, who is a voting member of the precinct election commission of one of the polling stations in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RIA Novosti reports.
So far, we have no reason to exclude it. In the event that she is convicted, such a question will be considered.
Representative of the election commission
The man who was rude to the driver is her husband, 42-year-old Roman Lobanov, the owner of a travel company. The couple deleted their accounts on social networks, screenshots were published on Peekaboo.
On January 12, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kamchatka Territory stated that the woman who was driving would face a fine of 500 rubles for "failing to provide priority in the movement of the route vehicle or a vehicle with special light and sound signals on.
Please attract female driver to criminal liability with a real term, as well as her passenger as an accomplice in the crime. In the future, it is necessary to toughen the punishment for such cases. After all, in fact, their actions killed a person.- the text of the petition
On January 13, the Investigative Committee of the Kamchatka Territory announced the initiation of a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence), which implies a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
Currently, a complex of investigative actions is being carried out, aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident. The identities of those in passenger car persons obstructing the passage of an ambulance, who, in soon will be interrogated by investigators, their actions will be given a legal assessment. In addition, it will be clarified whether there is a causal relationship between the death of a man and the traffic incident that occurred, as well as the completeness and timeliness of the actions of medical personnel.- investigative committee
In the Mariinsky hospital in St. Petersburg, a video was shot, where the men who brought their friend, bleeding. In response to the obscene language, the hospital staff called the police. The doctor himself and his boss say that the situation is "banal" and assistance to the victim was provided on time.
After in Karelia, where the boat with the children capsized, the survivors said that one of the dead boys from the sinking boat got through to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, but they did not believe him and hung up. The Ministry of Emergency Situations denied the information and said that no one called them. As it turned out later, a criminal case was opened.
