Igor Vysotsky and Anastasia Melnikova – deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg – suddenly became preoccupied with OSAGO. And they offered to increase the penalty for driving without a policy. They think that art. 12.37 Administrative Code. In particular, for an insurance form forgotten at home, one should not be fined 500 rubles, as is the case now, but immediately for 3000. Well, for driving without OSAGO, the current penalty of 800 ₽, in their opinion, is not enough and it must be increased to 5000, – more than six times. They say that those drivers who avoid purchasing a “car citizen” “set up” colleagues: in the event of an accident suffered at the hands of an uninsured car owner, the party is not entitled to any payment.
– The idea of such a fine increase is not correct. Regardless of what the insurers officially declare, it is very difficult in most regions to issue a policy for a novice driver or, for example, a taxi driver. Under no circumstances will companies sell OSAGO to such drivers. Therefore, many of them are forced to travel without policy. And what, will they be fined 5,000 rubles for this? Please be patient: our minimum wage is now about 16,000 rubles! That is, we want to immediately punish people for a third of the subsistence? Now it is not necessary to increase fines, but to deal with the adequacy of constantly growing tariffs and the real availability of OSAGO policies,” said Yaroslav Nilov, head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs. the AvtoVzglyad portal on the initiative of the legislators of St. Petersburg.