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 participants. traffic.
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 decision, 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.
For the second day already, the public, activists and deputies have not stopped discussing the scandalous video in which a traffic police officer refused to let an ambulance pass because the highway was blocked for the passage of a government motorcade.
State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein reacted most harshly to the incident. He declared that the traffic police officer who delayed the ambulance with a child in the cabin in order to let the official's motorcade through should be fired.
“By his actions, he directly violated the requirements of the law on the police, especially when it comes to a baby,” the deputy added. “The ambulance could not pose any threat to either the motorcade or the protected person.”
In addition, on his Twitter Khinshtein wrote what to deal with this emergency situation traffic police inspector if desired could. “Even having blocked the highway for the cortege, the employee, having seen the ambulance with the child, was obliged to report this to the management. I am sure that the problems would have been removed, ”the parliamentarian wrote.
Vasily Maksimov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, believes that the inaction of a traffic police officer requires a legal assessment.
“For me personally, as a person who has given so many years to healthcare organizations, human life is an absolute value,” declared deputy. Everything else is secondary. Naturally, he had to take all measures to call the accompanying crew. This composure, to put it mildly, that the traffic police officer showed, in my opinion, deserves, among other things, a legal assessment.
It is worth noting that in administrative regulations The Ministry of Internal Affairs states that “in the event of the simultaneous occurrence of circumstances requiring the response of a police officer, actions aimed at preserving the life and health of citizens, state security facilities, and preventing traffic accidents are carried out as a matter of priority.”
However, as the experts of Gazeta.Ru explain, in fact, ensuring the unhindered passage of motorcades of the first persons of the state turns out to be more important than the life and health of ordinary citizens.
In addition, not a single commentator asked whose motorcade became an obstacle to the passage of doctors, because the right to such security measures has a very limited circle of people - the eight top officials of the country and Patriarch Kirill.
There are also no official reports about the ownership of the cortege, although unofficially, many agree that we can talk about the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
The ex-employee of the traffic police department of Moscow Vadim Smirnov notes that, even if government cortege hits a man, the cars won't stop.
“The guard from the motorcade in such cases throws carriageway a white handkerchief is a signal for inspectors about an accident,
Smirnov told Gazeta.Ru.
Smirnov is sure that the traffic police inspector could well have taken elementary steps in order to obtain permission for the passage of the ambulance. “Of course, it is unlikely that he would have been allowed - we all like to play it safe, being afraid of any responsibility. But a call to the duty officer would not have resulted in any consequences for the inspector. But if he let the ambulance go without asking, then he could easily be prosecuted.”
The former head of Boris Yeltsin's security service, Alexander Korzhakov, critically assesses the activities of the FSO in ensuring the safety of officials.
“The road should be blocked exclusively for the president, and the rest should go in the general stream,” he told Gazeta.Ru. At least it used to be. Now there are too many flashers.
In addition, when the motorcade does not draw too much attention and rides in the general traffic, it is safer than if it moves on an empty blocked road.
The interlocutor notes that the traffic cop in such a situation should have acted humanly, albeit under pain of dismissal, but let the ambulance onto the blocked highway. “If the ambulance drove along the extreme lane and did not interfere with the passage of the motorcade, then the FSO officers would hardly interfere with this,” Korzhakov believes.
The head of the Moscow Police Union, Mikhail Pashkin, is also sure that it should be possible to block roads only for the passage of the first person of the state. “Then there would be a minimum of such situations,” he explained to Gazeta.Ru. —
But there is another solution to the problem: you can delay the tuple for a couple of minutes - no one will die from this.
Or the sentry can check the car, make sure there are no terrorists, and then escort it along the blocked highway in a patrol car.”
Pashkin is also sure that if a traffic cop had let an ambulance in front of the cortege, he would have been fired immediately. “However, in such a situation, the inspector can be made the last resort even if the patient dies in the ambulance,” he says.
Recall that the incident occurred on January 13, but it became known about it only four days later, when video recording, made by an eyewitness, appeared on YouTube.
In the video, the ambulance driver stands along with other cars at the exit from Borovskoye Highway to outside MKAD. The traffic police inspector does not allow cars to enter the ring road. The traffic cop defiantly ignores the doctors and the author of the video, who is not shy of his emotions, preferring to look in the direction of an absolutely empty road. He perked up only when the VIP cortege began to approach. When he appeared, the traffic cop "took it under his visor", seeing off the cavalcade of luxury foreign cars with his eyes.
The motorcade itself consisted of ten cars. Two traffic police cars in front, three behind. A limousine with a special signal on, driving in the middle, accompanied a luxury sedan and three jeeps. Mercedes Gelandewagen: they moved in front, on the sides and behind the VIP car and were also equipped with working flashing lights.
A few hours after the appearance of the video, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow announced that they would conduct an inspection, during which they would determine the legality of the actions of the traffic police officer. The press service of the Metropolitan Police on Monday, "Gazeta.Ru" did not answer the question about the progress of the check or its results.
The press service of the FSO "Gazeta.Ru" also failed to provide an operational comment.
At the same time, the Security Committee of the Public Board of the Russian Federation, which is conducting its own audit of the incident, has already found out that the ambulance was traveling without a siren, and there was no patient in it. “We are waiting for the results of an internal audit conducted by the Moscow police,” Anton Tsvetkov, chairman of the committee, told Gazeta.ru. While she walks
we received information from sources, according to which the ambulance drove up to the place where the Moscow Ring Road was closed with the siren turned off. And this is noticeable on the video: the ambulance turns on the flasher only some time after the activist started filming what is happening on camera. According to our informants, there was no one in the ambulance - she went to pick up the child in one medical facility for scheduled transportation to another.
This is again confirmed by the words on the video: “You are going to the maternity hospital to take the breast.” Traffic cops are normal people, and if someone really died in the ambulance, then the waiting time would be even shorter, although the ambulance stood for only a few minutes anyway.”
The same Alexander Khinshtein on Monday evening also confirmed this information. “It is confirmed: there was neither a child nor a patient in the ambulance. In this regard, there are no claims against the traffic police officer, he acted within the law, ”
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, fire brigade.
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 Negative consequences failure to provide an advantage in the movement of the ambulance, which can be expressed in the failure to provide medical care", the authors of the bill explain.
Social networks and the State Duma
Discussions about how ambulances get through in Russia are among the hottest. Someone proposes to judge the boors under a criminal article for murder, if their act led to a tragedy and the doctors did not have time to help the sick or injured in an accident.
Someone is trying to find excuses, traditionally blaming medicine - allegedly, health workers do not go on any calls, but only use official position for easy travel on busy roads.
And someone does not get tired of demonstrating how this or that driver did not miss the ambulance in the video, posting videos from registrars or smartphones in public and personal pages. The footage, I must admit, is blatant - drivers do not give way, not because of the impossibility of doing this, but deliberately, deliberately slowing down in front of the ambulance or even “blocking” it right on the road in order to jump out of the car and attack the insolent driver sitting driving a car with flashing beacons.
While passions are running high, the State Duma will never get around to considering a bill that equates boorish behavior in relation to vehicles with special signals (ambulance, fire, emergency, etc.) to driving while intoxicated - the most serious crime on the road.
Among the discussed proposals for tougher penalties for auto cads:
raise fines thousands of times;
lifelong deprivation of rights;
judged under a criminal article for murder, if a person died due to the delay in the ambulance.
What is and what will happen to the punishment for avtohamov?
The Russian Ministry of Health insists: if you don't miss an ambulance, you'll be fined 30,000 rubles or lose your license for a year and a half.
According to the current law, the punishment for those who did not miss an ambulance is a fine in 2017 of only 500 rubles (part 2, article 12.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The violator can also be deprived of the right to drive a vehicle for a maximum of 3 months.
According to Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, such behavior is not a sign of today. There were always boors and "such outrages" occurred in her practice back in 1993, when she worked in the intensive care unit of the First City Hospital. Just today, thanks to social networks and the Internet, they began to talk about it more often and on a larger scale.
If the bill is finally passed, then to prove the offense it will be enough:
remove the license plate number and make of the car of the car on a smartphone;
send information online to the traffic police.
On a note! The need to increase responsibility began to discuss not yesterday. Back in 2015, the Duma Transport Committee proposed raising the fine to 10,000 rubles, but “the cart is still there.”
Use of force against an ambulance driver
In addition to "blocking", some drivers are trying to "prove" their case to the people in the ambulance. Usually the situation is resolved by other road users, helping the ambulance driver.
After such cases, there is a proposal to equip special vehicles with armed guards, but, according to the Minister of Health, such protection is inappropriate and too expensive.
What do the rules of the road say?
The rules oblige to skip an ambulance and this is enshrined in the third section of the SDA. In particular, it says that upon seeing a car with blue "flashing lights" and hearing a warning "quack", the driver:
is obliged to give way to ensure the unhindered passage of special vehicles;
when approaching special vehicles, reduce speed;
do not overtake an ambulance, fire truck etc.
In turn, to gain an advantage, drivers of special equipment must turn on flashing beacons. of blue color and special signals. They can take advantage of priority only by making sure that they give way.
How ambulances are missed in Europe
A mirror reflection of how Russian drivers behave on the roads are videos of how an ambulance is passed in Europe. For example, in one of the German cities for hurrying to the place car accident create an absolutely free corridor in the center of the road. The same happens in other European cities for special vehicles with flashing beacons turned on.
Special transport pays no attention to road markings and moves freely in front of vehicles quickly parting to the left and right. And even if the road is heavily loaded, the ambulance manages to “leak” between the rows, because other road users find an opportunity to move their car out of the way.
On a note! Another option for the movement of special vehicles in Europe is special lines for taxis. Passage on them for special vehicles in emergency cases allowed by the rules.
And in conclusion, another common opinion from social networks: it is not necessary to increase fines, but culture, then it would never occur to anyone to “lock” a car that rushes to save a life on the road. And, probably, you won’t have to rack your brains about what fine, if you didn’t miss the ambulance, will be effective and help change the depressing situation.
The size of the traffic police fine in 2018 for not providing an advantage to an ambulance is 500 rubles or deprivation of the right to drive for a period of 1 to 3 months.
When should a driver give way to an ambulance?
Obtaining priority in the movement of an ambulance, as well as other vehicles equipped with blue special signals, is described in paragraph 3.1 of the Rules of the Road.
In order to gain an advantage over other road users, the drivers of such vehicles must include a flashing blue beacon and a special sound signal. They can take advantage of priority only by making sure that they give way.
Please note that both of the described conditions must be met in order to receive priority. The sound signal must be special. If the ambulance gives the usual monotonous signal, it has no advantage in movement.
Among mandatory conditions there is no requirement that a special color scheme be applied to the vehicle.
To receive a fine from the traffic police for not allowing an ambulance to pass, the car must have blue beacons and special sound signal.
How to yield to an ambulance
The procedure for granting priority for an ambulance is described in clause 3.2 of the Rules.
When approaching a vehicle with the flashing beacon blue and special sound signal drivers are obliged to give way to ensure the unimpeded passage of the specified vehicle.
Legal conflict on the example of video
The requirements for ensuring the free passage of ambulances are set out within the terms “Advantage” and “Give way” defined by the Rules.
"Advantage (priority)" - the right to priority movement in the intended direction in relation to other road users.
“Give way (do not obstruct)” - a requirement meaning that a road user must not start, resume or continue moving, perform any maneuver, if this may force other road users who have an advantage in relation to him to change direction movement or speed.
That is, the driver must act only in one way and nothing else. The use of these terms is justified when crossing paths, at intersections, when turning, changing lanes and other maneuvers. But the Rules do not single out the case of approaching a car with special signals from behind. And this is the most common case, especially when driving through a traffic jam.
Drivers, in the event of an ambulance approaching from behind, must also comply with the “give way” requirement, namely, they must not continue driving and maneuver, apply the brakes and stop.
The rules of the road set a direct ban further movement and maneuvering. On the other hand, drivers are presented with an indefinite requirement of unhindered passage. The driver, de jure, fulfilling the requirement to give way, understands that he ensures unhindered passage. That is what it is for:
... give way to ensure unhindered passage.
There are no options for discussion. The “Give way” requirement is defined. How its implementation will happen in practice is clear to everyone. Ambulance won't be able to drive.
In practice, no one will ever blame the driver and fine for not allowing an ambulance if the driver maneuvers, de jure, violating traffic rules, and vice versa, they can impose a fine if the driver fully complies with the requirements of the Rules and stops.
In the case of ambulances and other vehicles of special services, it is certainly necessary to understand such ambiguity in the traffic rules and, if possible, ensure travel.
A small indent from the topic. On the other hand, if it is, roughly speaking, a “black Mercedes” with flashing lights of unknown origin and a “quack”, but a huge administrative resource, you can simply stop in the lane and not move, having fully met the requirements. However, the “game” will have to continue until the end. It is forbidden to resume and continue the movement, and violation of this prohibition threatens with a fine, though much less.
Watch the video of the ambulance South Korea. Drivers immediately freed the passage in a traffic jam in a tight tunnel.
Such actions violate the Rules of the road of the Russian Federation.
The next video was the reason for discussing the toughening of liability in case of failure to provide the benefits of an ambulance, however, according to the traffic rules of the Russian Federation, there are no violations of the driver. He stands still and does not continue to move, strictly following the rules and fulfilling the “Give way” requirement. The plot of the channel Ren-TV.
Let's hope that such ambiguity in the Rules will be eliminated in the light of the upcoming increases in fines for not passing an ambulance.
A law establishing a fine for not allowing an ambulance to pass.
The penalty for failure to comply with the requirement to give way to an ambulance is established by part 3 of Article 12.17.
2. Failure to provide an advantage in motion vehicle which has special color schemes, inscriptions and designations applied to the outer surfaces, with a blue flashing beacon and a special sound signal turned on at the same time -
entails the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of five hundred rubles or deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one to three months.
In the absence of special color-gravure schemes on the vehicle, part 1 of the same article 12.17
1. Failure to provide an advantage in movement to a route vehicle, as well as to a vehicle with a blue flashing beacon and a special sound signal turned on at the same time -
entails warning or imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of five hundred rubles.
We note that a fine is due only for failure to provide an advantage, that is, for failure to comply with the requirement to “give way” , there is no fine for failure to ensure unhindered passage.
Any claims from representatives of "black Mercedes" with flashing lights threaten with a fine of a maximum of 500 rubles.
What changes in traffic police fines are expected for not providing the benefits of an ambulance?
The article focuses on ambulances, since in 2017 cases with the transport of this service received wide publicity. Everything described above also applies to other vehicles of special services - (police, firemen, Ministry of Emergency Situations and others.)
From the latest news, according to RBC, there is a statement by the Minister of Health of Russia about the preparation by their department of a bill on imposing a fine of 30,000 rubles.
IN State Duma after April 14, 2017, bill No. 88389-7 will be considered, where for not allowing cars without color schemes, a fine is set from 500 to 1,500 rubles, with schemes a fine of 1,500 rubles or deprivation of rights for a period of 6 months to 1 year.
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