New fines for drivers. Change in the SDA 2018 in Ukraine
This year, on September 27, new changes to the rules of the road will be enacted. They are approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, legislative act No. 5364. In addition to the innovations, new fines were adopted, the size of which increased significantly.
What awaits us and which items will be changed? We present to familiarize the new rules, which of them are approved, and which else they plan to approve.
Penalties for parking
To the rules regarding stopping and parking in specially designated places, some innovations are already registered. Now questions about violators will be handled by inspectors. Their duties will include not only issuing fines, they will also be able to evacuate cars to the penalty area.
In the duties of inspecting workers, also tracking the payment of drivers' money for parking. A ticket about this will be attached to the windshield of the car. If there is no confirmation of the parking, the vehicle is fined 20 times the parking cost, which is 100-200 UAH.
Also, an extramural form of penalties will be introduced, taking into account the fixation of photo and video information from the surveillance cameras. The inspector can issue a fine without the owner of the car and attach the document to the windshield. In addition, a system of SMS notification has been introduced.
Penalties for non-compliance with the rules of stopping and parking will be the owner of the vehicle, regardless of who ran the car. The fee is not withdrawn by the inspector, since he is not allowed to do this.
The amount of fines will increase. Wrong parking will cost 255-1700 UAH, the most expensive will be parking on the ground, which is designed for people with disabilities.
The amount of the penalty for improper parking is 255-1700 UAH.
Exceeding the permissible speed and fine
In the event that the driver exceeds the permissible speed by 50 km / h or more, he will pay 3,400 UAH. Previously, non-compliance with speed limits was 510 UAH.
As early as 01/01/2018, the law that restricts traffic in settlements to a mark of 50 km / h is in force, with the maximum exceedance being reduced from 20 to 10 km / h. But to detect those who exceed the speed will be difficult, since "radar" is not used, and fixing on a photo or video is not yet functioning. Its launch is expected at the end of this year.
The amount of the penalty for exceeding the speed — 3 400 UAH.
Now the adoption of this rule is postponed, but on several roads of the capital it is planned to increase the permissible speed by 30 km / h (from possible 50 to 80). The increase is expected for a warm period of the year, from April to November. If such rules do not cause an increase in traffic accidents, then their approval is possible in other cities.
Driver's license
Since November 10, 2017, a new decree No. 885, adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, is in effect regarding the rules for issuing driving permits. According to this order, the driver's documents are issued for 2 years. After that, he needs to replace them with new ones, the validity period of which is 30 years. Such a certificate is issued only if the driver for the "trial" period had an allowable number of violations.
Evacuation of a vehicle
In the updated rules in force from September 27, 2018, the police inspector is allowed to take the car out if:
- There is interference with the movement or auto threatening safety;
- Parking is carried out on the roadway;
- It is located on the lane on which public transport moves;
- Violated parking scheme and blocking traffic;
- It stands on the bicycle path, interferes with the work of harvesting or other communal equipment, during the emergency situation or an emergency environmental situation in a separate area;
- The driver parked the car in an unauthorized place.
The cost of evacuation of the vehicle is 720 UAH, and the maintenance in a specially designated place will cost 144 UAH / day.
The cost of evacuation of the vehicle is 720 UAH.
If there are no rights, the escape from the place of an accident
In the absence of rights to the car, the driver was deprived of the driving license or he drives with a driver's license of an incompatible category, then the penalties increase 20 times, their amount is 10,200 UAH. Another non-compliance with the rules throughout the current year will entail a fine of UAH 40,800. Before the innovations, the figures were much smaller — only 510 UAH.
Penalty for driving without a driver's license — 10 200 UAH. Repeated violation — 40 800 UAH.
If there was an accident and the driver is the initiator of the incident, escaped from the scene of the incident, the fine will be 3 400 UAH, up to this only 255 UAH. Also, the driver is threatened with the collection of rights for a period of up to six months.
Innovations in the rules of auto-registration
The registration of the car is carried out directly to the new owner without being removed from the register. This rule greatly simplifies the process of buying or selling cars, makes it easier and cheaper.
Public car registry
This year, in August, there was an opening of online access to information on the initial registration of cars in Ukraine, registered since 2013. Now, having a car number, it is offered to familiarize with those. characteristics, year of issue, place and time of registration. This information does not contain any personal data, it is only ordinary statistical information.
Penalty of cars with European numbers
In the case of the purchase and importation into Ukraine of a car with foreign registration, or eurobucks, penalties after automatic fixation on a photo or video will be sent to the owner at the place of his registration. If the penalty is not paid, the collection of money will be mandatory. When you import a car, Eurobags, a citizen of another country, information about the violation and the amount of the fine is issued by border guard officers at the border. If the driver refuses to pay the penalty, he will be prohibited from leaving the country.
Failure to comply with the use of seat belts
For today, the bill of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 8492 has already been adopted with respect to the increase in the amount of the penalty, while ignoring the means of passive security, from 51 to 850 UAH.
Penalty for driving with a seat belt unfastened — 850 UAH.
Unified Register of Medical Examinations
A uniform system of medical examinations in electronic form has already started functioning. The effect of this law is aimed at eliminating forging mednizhek and purchase certificates of health. Thanks to the new rules, these data will be online, they will be placed in a protected e-system, and it will be impossible to forge any information.
Innovations for people with disabilities
The executive authorities have amended the SDA. On 11.07.2018, an order is issued that a person with a disability moving on a wheelchair is considered to be a full participant in the movement, and not an ordinary pedestrian. This allows them to move along the carriageway in the direction of movement of the car, in the right row.