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Knowledge of traffic rules will save you from accidents and problems with the traffic police. Even in a situation where there seems to be no chance of continuing
Ask an experienced driver: what would it be like to drive backwards in the opposite direction? In most cases you will receive the answer: definitely deprivation of your “rights” or a fine of 5,000 rubles. A small number of my colleagues disagree, because they firmly believe in the ridiculous principle: ‘since I drive backwards, I won’t get a fine.’ The paradox is that the former are not entirely right, while the latter are wrong, but not entirely. In fact, there are situations when a car can even drive backwards against traffic all along the street and not a single traffic police officer dares to file a claim against the driver.
Let’s first remember: Article 8.11 of the Traffic Rules states that you cannot drive backwards (even during a bend, for example) at intersections, zebra crossings, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, overpasses, railway crossings, where there is visibility in at least one direction from the road is less than 100 meters and at public transport stops. Section 16.1 of the Rules prohibits reversing on highways. And provision 8.12 of the traffic rules states that you can drive backwards in all other places – if it is safe and does not cause a nuisance to other road users.
Now let’s return to the situation of ‘driving backwards into the oncoming traffic’. Taxiing in this style is not just about entering the corresponding half of the regular road. But also ‘driving against the flow’ of a car in a street where one-way traffic is arranged.
However, most drivers are not aware that the unambiguity of the penalties for such “tricks” was once refuted by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The essence of the Supreme Court’s position is set out in Resolution No. 20 of June 25, 2019 in the case of a motorist who reversed into a one-way street to avoid traffic jams. Where he was arrested by the traffic police.
The Supreme Court upheld the punishment for the cunning man, but made a reservation in its ruling that “based on the content of clause 8.12 of the Traffic Rules of the Russian Federation, reversing on a one-way road is not prohibited.” At the same time, “the violation by a driver of the requirements of any traffic sign, causing the vehicle he is driving to move in the opposite direction on a one-way road, constitutes the objective side of an administrative violation.”
Translated into Russian, these legal formulations mean the following. Suppose you accidentally drove into the wrong street, only realized it after a few hundred meters, and it turned out to be one-way. In such a situation it is not prohibited to drive backwards (against the direction of travel) on the road. Provided this does not cause any nuisance to other motorists and pedestrians, of course.
Driving backwards from the adjacent site (from the railway yard, for example) to “one-way traffic” is in fact not prohibited. But only if there is no sign at the exit prohibiting any movement in the direction chosen by the cunning driver. There is a sign: there is a threat of deprivation of the driver’s license. No – “not caught – not a thief.”
Ask an experienced driver: what would it be like to drive backwards in the opposite direction? In most cases you will receive the answer: definitely deprivation of your “rights” or a fine of 5,000 rubles. A small number of my colleagues disagree, because they firmly believe in the ridiculous principle: ‘since I drive backwards, I won’t get a fine.’ The paradox is that the former are not entirely right, while the latter are wrong, but not entirely. In fact, there are situations when a car can even drive backwards against traffic all along the street and not a single traffic police officer dares to file a claim against the driver.
Let’s first remember: Article 8.11 of the Traffic Rules states that you cannot drive backwards (even during a bend, for example) at intersections, zebra crossings, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, overpasses, railway crossings, where there is visibility in at least one direction from the road is less than 100 meters and at public transport stops. Section 16.1 of the Rules prohibits reversing on highways. And provision 8.12 of the traffic rules states that you can drive backwards in all other places – if it is safe and does not cause a nuisance to other road users.
Now let’s return to the situation of ‘driving backwards into the oncoming traffic’. Taxiing in this style is not just about entering the corresponding half of the regular road. But also ‘driving against the flow’ of a car in a street where one-way traffic is arranged.
However, most drivers are not aware that the unambiguity of the penalties for such “tricks” was once refuted by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The essence of the Supreme Court’s position is set out in Resolution No. 20 of June 25, 2019 in the case of a motorist who reversed into a one-way street to avoid traffic jams. Where he was arrested by the traffic police.
The Supreme Court upheld the punishment for the cunning man, but made a reservation in its ruling that “based on the content of clause 8.12 of the Traffic Rules of the Russian Federation, reversing on a one-way road is not prohibited.” At the same time, “the violation by a driver of the requirements of any traffic sign, causing the vehicle he is driving to move in the opposite direction on a one-way road, constitutes the objective side of an administrative violation.”
Translated into Russian, these legal formulations mean the following. Suppose you accidentally drove into the wrong street, only realized it after a few hundred meters, and it turned out to be one-way. In such a situation it is not prohibited to drive backwards (against the direction of travel) on the road. Provided this does not cause any nuisance to other motorists and pedestrians, of course.
Driving backwards from the adjacent site (from the railway yard, for example) to “one-way traffic” is in fact not prohibited. But only if there is no sign at the exit prohibiting any movement in the direction chosen by the cunning driver. There is a sign: there is a threat of deprivation of the driver’s license. No – “not caught – not a thief.”
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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