How not to fall into the petty pitfalls of traffic police protocol
- September 7, 2023
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Any driver can “earn” unexpected problems while drawing up a protocol by a traffic police officer. Even just sitting next to the inspector in the patrol car. This
Any driver can “earn” unexpected problems while drawing up a protocol by a traffic police officer. Even just sitting next to the inspector in the patrol car. This is the main argument in favor of a careful check on the possible procedural “jokes” of the traffic cop.
After almost every traffic accident or violation of the rules discovered by an employee of the National Traffic Inspectorate, a protocol must be drawn up. This is a document that records the fact, circumstances or consequences of an event “for posterity”. Its, shall we say, “legal photography”. Any inaccuracy in the protocol can distort the truth, leading to unpleasant consequences.
The protocol must always be signed by the driver. The most common mistake with the latter is to leave your signature in it without actually reading the text. This is a real “mine”, which someone actually voluntarily steps on. After all, a traffic police officer can very well enter something completely different in the document than what the motorist expects. For example, if you register an approaching car collision on a narrow road where there is no axial marking, it may indicate that part of your car is to the left of the center of the lane. Although this is actually not the case. And that’s it: there is a good chance that you will be recognized as the perpetrator of an accident – with all the associated insurance consequences.
Or, when filing an accident in the courtyard, the military “forgets” to indicate for some reason that you could not physically see the opponent’s car before the collision, for example, because of a van that was in the wrong place was parked. This brings us to the second ‘trap’ of the standard protocol. All fields must be completed! If an employee missed one of them or entered something wrong there, you can’t be blind to this – it will be even worse for you.
Before signing a legally invaluable paper, carefully fill in the “voids” in it with at least dashes – so that no one can “bring” anything superfluous there. You never know which respected people will later “go” to the traffic police to edit the document.
As a rule, a special place is reserved in the protocol for the driver’s explanation. Even if you don’t want to say anything about the accident that happened or want to “spread your thoughts” in writing about your innocence of breaking the traffic rules, just fill in the space allotted to you in the protocol with at least a swiping dash. It won’t be worse. By the way, the back of this paper should also be “marked” in exactly the same way. Again – so that no outsider intrudes into something superfluous in a vicious way.
The protocol pitfall can be quite brutal. Sometimes the inspector, noticing that he himself made a mistake somewhere in compiling it, tells the driver that a copy of this document is not allowed for a citizen, or that some far-fetched technical obstacle prevents him from to deliver. This is done in order to then edit the “style” and deprive the driver of the opportunity to prove the counterfeit. Don’t fall for this “scam”!
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After almost every traffic accident or violation of the rules discovered by an employee of the National Traffic Inspectorate, a protocol must be drawn up. This is a document that records the fact, circumstances or consequences of an event “for posterity”. Its, shall we say, “legal photography”. Any inaccuracy in the protocol can distort the truth, leading to unpleasant consequences.
The protocol must always be signed by the driver. The most common mistake with the latter is to leave your signature in it without actually reading the text. This is a real “mine”, which someone actually voluntarily steps on. After all, a traffic police officer can very well enter something completely different in the document than what the motorist expects. For example, if you register an approaching car collision on a narrow road where there is no axial marking, it may indicate that part of your car is to the left of the center of the lane. Although this is actually not the case. And that’s it: there is a good chance that you will be recognized as the perpetrator of an accident – with all the associated insurance consequences.
Or, when filing an accident in the courtyard, the military “forgets” to indicate for some reason that you could not physically see the opponent’s car before the collision, for example, because of a van that was in the wrong place was parked. This brings us to the second ‘trap’ of the standard protocol. All fields must be completed! If an employee missed one of them or entered something wrong there, you can’t be blind to this – it will be even worse for you.
Before signing a legally invaluable paper, carefully fill in the “voids” in it with at least dashes – so that no one can “bring” anything superfluous there. You never know which respected people will later “go” to the traffic police to edit the document.
As a rule, a special place is reserved in the protocol for the driver’s explanation. Even if you don’t want to say anything about the accident that happened or want to “spread your thoughts” in writing about your innocence of breaking the traffic rules, just fill in the space allotted to you in the protocol with at least a swiping dash. It won’t be worse. By the way, the back of this paper should also be “marked” in exactly the same way. Again – so that no outsider intrudes into something superfluous in a vicious way.
The protocol pitfall can be quite brutal. Sometimes the inspector, noticing that he himself made a mistake somewhere in compiling it, tells the driver that a copy of this document is not allowed for a citizen, or that some far-fetched technical obstacle prevents him from to deliver. This is done in order to then edit the “style” and deprive the driver of the opportunity to prove the counterfeit. Don’t fall for this “scam”!
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