A roundtable was held in the State Duma under the leadership of the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Transport Rifat Shaikhutdinov, where the revival of the practice of fines for exceeding the average speed was discussed. Earlier, the Supreme Court sided with a citizen who appealed against such a sentence. The Supreme Court has ruled that every administrative offense has a place and time of its occurrence. And in the case of measuring the average speed of a car, it is impossible to accurately indicate the moment and specific coordinates of the excess. Therefore, fines “for average speed” cannot be issued. And now officials have launched a public relations campaign against the court’s legally justified position.

During the “round table” there were absolutely touching arguments for the return of such fines. For example, Vladimir Karpov, deputy head of the automated photo and video recording department of Moscow’s Central Traffic Control Department, said that when 30 average speed measurement sites were active in Moscow, more than 750,000 car owners were fined for exceeding them. . And the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Moscow region, Vitaly Rezanov, boasted that when there were 174 average speed fixation complexes in the Moscow region (they covered about 600 km of roads), drivers managed to get into only 0.01% of cases. appeal against fines. fallen. As you can see, everything speaks only about the desire of officials to collect more money from car owners by any means.

A roundtable was held in the State Duma under the leadership of the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Transport Rifat Shaikhutdinov, where the revival of the practice of fines for exceeding the average speed was discussed. Earlier, the Supreme Court sided with a citizen who appealed against such a sentence. The Supreme Court has ruled that every administrative offense has a place and time of its occurrence. And in the case of measuring the average speed of a car, it is impossible to accurately indicate the moment and specific coordinates of the excess. Therefore, fines “for average speed” cannot be issued. And now officials have launched a public relations campaign against the court’s legally justified position.

During the “round table” there were absolutely touching arguments for the return of such fines. For example, Vladimir Karpov, deputy head of the TsODD’s automated photo and video recording department in Moscow, said that when 30 average speed measurement sites were active in Moscow, more than 750,000 car owners were fined for exceeding them. And the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Moscow region, Vitaly Rezanov, boasted that when there were 174 average speed fixation complexes in the Moscow region (they covered about 600 km of roads), drivers managed to get into only 0.01% of cases. appeal against fines. fallen. As you can see, everything speaks only about the desire of officials to collect more money from car owners by any means.