Evacuation, fine, driver's lesson: Stop-parking action takes place in Minsk

The preventive action “Stop-parking” is carried out by the capital’s State Traffic Inspectorate. The attention of employees is drawn to cars parked near pedestrian crossings, on sidewalks, in places intended for disabled people, as well as near the placement of containers for waste collection. The correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency took part in the raid on the roads of the Oktyabrsky district to find out how violations of the rules of stopping and parking of vehicles are suppressed.

Together with the inspectors of the traffic police department of the Oktyabrsk police department, I go to Minsk-Mir. The concentration of vehicles is high here. This leads to parking violations.

- Leaving personal transport in places where it is prohibited, people often do not even think about what thereby create a threat to safety for other road users, said the inspector of the road patrol service Stanislav Leglik.

Evacuation, fine, driver's lesson: Stop-parking action takes place in Minsk

As confirmation, the traffic police officer points to Renault left on the street. I. Luchenko opposite house No. 16.

- The driver violated paragraph 139 of traffic rules, which says that vehicles are allowed to be parked in compliance with the requirements of road signs and horizontal markings, Leglik said. As you can see, the car is located on the road markings, indicating a 15-meter zone at the exit from the courtyard. This is done to improve the visibility of the road for drivers leaving the yard. According to the rules, the driver who leaves the courtyard must give way to cars driving on the main road. If because of the obstacle, he does not react in a timely manner and allows a collision, he will be found guilty of an accident. To avoid such incidents, road markings are applied, excluding parking in a 15-meter zone.

Drive down the street. Belgrade. Pay attention to the Range Rover, standing in close proximity to the pedestrian crossing. If a parked car creates a real obstacle to traffic or violates the rules, it has the right to be forcibly evacuated to a protected parking lot. Which is what's going on.

There are two tow trucks in October. One of them will soon come to our address. Evacuation begins. The traffic police inspector examines the car for external damage, the information is recorded in the protocol.

- This is done so that during the proceedings, the owner of the car did not bring us a claim about the alleged damage during the transportation of the car to a protected parking lot, Leglik said. A video recorder is also used during the inspection. Data on the evacuated car is immediately transferred to the city traffic police. There, the owner will be informed why and where the car was delivered and what will be required in order to be able to pick it up. In our case, the delivery point will be a guarded parking on the street. Brest, 52. The owner is brought to administrative responsibility for violation of the rules of stopping and parking of vehicles and also reimburses evacuation services. If such violations of the rules were recorded earlier in the year, the fine will be the base value. Illegal parking of a car at a place reserved for parking of disabled vehicles, entails a fine in the amount of two basic values.

A tow truck takes the Range Rover to a guarded parking lot. We're moving on. At the next regulated intersection, we note the Mercedes, left in close proximity to the pedestrian crossing. Evacuation pattern repeats.

Often, citizens send messages about violations of parking rules to the chatbot of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “We are always there!” or call the number 102, Leglik said. The place and time of the offence is indicated. Videos and photos are attached. Based on the data obtained, we contact the drivers and bring them to administrative responsibility. For example, today it was reported that Geely was parked on Moskovskaya Street near the house No. 12 near the pedestrian crossing. We'll definitely react.

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