Drivers must be responsible for driving. Unfortunately, now not all drivers can boast of this. Traffic rules are rapidly changing, someone forgets about them, and some intentionally violate the law. What threatens the transfer of the steering wheel to a person who does not have rights? Can sanctions be somehow avoided? Who do they overlap in the first place? The answers to these questions and not only greatly simplify the life of each driver.
Type of Responsibility
Riding without a license is a violation of the applicable traffic rules. The thing is that when driving a vehicle a citizen should have a certain package of papers with him. We will talk about them later.
If you drive without a VU, you may run into administrative responsibility. True, it is expressed in different ways. It all depends on under what circumstances and what kind of violation occurred.
Who is responsible
Who is entitled to drive a vehicle? The owner of the vehicle, as well as the one to whom the owner of the movable property has given permission for the relevant act. Accordingly, the violation may not be committed on personal property. This happens quite often.
Who will be held accountable? Under the law, both the driver and the owner of the car, with the participation of which a violation has been committed. True, under certain circumstances sanctions can be avoided. The owner of the vehicle is much more likely to do this.
The document is there, but it is forgotten
Riding without a license is an administrative violation that is prevented in different ways. Next, we consider all possible life patterns.
The first situation is that the driver has rights, but they are absent at the time of stopping by traffic police. For example, due to the forgetfulness of the driver. In this case, the driver is entitled to a fine. It is only 500 rubles.
If you quickly rectify the situation and return behind the WU on your own, you can get off with the usual warning. True, this scenario is not so common. Nevertheless, it is still not necessary to exclude it.
Forgetful driver and inattentive owner
Passing the helm to a person who does not have rights is an administrative violation. Moreover, an unambiguous punishment does not threaten him. It will be necessary to take into account under what circumstances the corresponding violation occurred.
Will anything threaten the owner of the car if he let the driver drive without a VU? For example, provided that WU is simply forgotten? Yes, they will bring the citizen to justice.
Under such circumstances, you need to pay 3 thousand rubles. It is possible that the driver will be reprimanded. Then, as a rule, you can not pay, getting off with a warning.
Complete absence
The transfer of the steering wheel to a person who does not have rights is quite common. Moreover, the citizen will have to take into account the circumstances in which the violation was committed.
Sometimes drivers who do not have a driver’s license sit behind the wheel of a vehicle. This is a more serious act. And it is suppressed more rigidly.
Riding without a license will cost the negligent driver, provided that the corresponding document is completely absent at least five thousand rubles. But the maximum penalty for the described act is 15,000 rubles.
There is nothing difficult or incomprehensible to understand. The mentioned payment does not threaten the owner of the car, but to the one who was driving. The owner of the vehicle has a different penalty.
Overdue WU and driving
But what if the driver has expired an appropriate license? Some believe that they can even control the vehicle with such introductory notes. Is it really?
Not.When the WU is delayed, driving will be considered a transfer of driving to a person who does not have the right to drive a vehicle. An expired document is treated as invalid. So, to its complete absence.
If WU deprived
It also happens that, for one reason or another, the driver is deprived of his driver’s license. In this case, the person must not drive behind the circumstances until the restoration of the relevant document. Unfortunately, not everyone is conscientious about this rule.
Driving a car without rights due to the deprivation of these is a gross violation. And it is suppressed quite seriously. The driver who committed such a violation will need to pay 30 thousand rubles. No way to get past the sanction is impossible.
Responsibility of the owner of the vehicle
The transfer of the steering wheel to an unauthorized person is more and more common in practice. True, sometimes car owners do not know that they commit an administrative violation. So, you can try to avoid responsibility for it. It is really possible, although achieving the desired result is extremely problematic.
For the admission of a citizen with expired or invalid rights, as well as when driving a vehicle with a driver deprived of a “driver card” / not having it at all, 30,000 rubles will have to be paid. This penalty is imposed on the owner of the car. True, there are exceptions. We will familiarize with them below.
If the driver is drunk
But there is another, perhaps the most serious violation. We are talking about getting to the helm of a driver who drinks or has recently drunk alcohol. As a rule, in this case a criminal case may be opened against negligent participants in the incident.
In fact, it all starts with a fine. The transfer of the steering wheel to a person who does not have rights, as has already been said, is punishable by payment of 30 thousand rubles. If the driver is also drunk, he can be arrested for up to fifteen days.
But the owner of the vehicle will have to face more serious sanctions. The transfer of the steering wheel to a person who is not entitled and is drunk (drinking alcohol while driving) will cost the inattentive owner a confiscation of rights. How much? From 1.5 to 2 years. And it doesn’t matter if the owner of the car is drunk or not.
If an accident occurs
Handing over to the unauthorized person and the accident are huge problems for all participants in the event. The thing is that you have to pay for:
- lack of driver rights;
- access to the wheel of a person without a driver’s license;
- damage caused by an accident.
Moreover, the insurance company will reimburse the victim for the money, but then will request it from the owner of the car. The latter can recover the appropriate funds from the driver.
Avoiding sanctions: information for car owners
We examined the existing and common dispositions related to driver’s licenses. As already mentioned, the car owner can avoid sanctions, but only in certain circumstances. Which ones?
For example, if you prove that the owner of the vehicle did not know that he was contributing to an administrative violation. The second scenario is to report the theft. For stolen vehicles, their owners are not responsible. The main thing is that the theft really took place. Otherwise, you will have to answer in accordance with the above principles.
When you can not have WU
It's hard to believe, but there are situations in which a driver’s license is not required to drive. They are extremely few, but they still exist.
Today, you can not have a VU for those who are trained to drive in specially equipped vehicles. For this, training should be carried out in designated places, and an instructor should be nearby. The latter will have to check for a license and a driver’s license with one or another category of driving.
It is also possible to have no rights to the participants of the competitions directly at the events. True, then the probability of a collision with traffic police officers tends to zero.
What to carry
Some are interested in what is useful at the wheel. Or rather, how each driver should prepare statements. To avoid being fined, the following papers are required:
- driver's license;
- personal identifier (ideally a passport);
- vehicle registration certificate;
- car insurance policy.
If a person has got behind the wheel of someone else's transport, it is necessary that he be inscribed in insurance. The presence of an official power of attorney of the established form will also be useful.
Now it’s clear what the transfer of the steering wheel to a person who does not have rights in a state of intoxication and not only will turn out to be. As practice shows, it is much easier to prevent the commission of an appropriate violation than to cope with its consequences later.