A new bill, designed to streamline individual vehicle traffic, is being drawn up by MPs from the Liberal Democratic Party. They intend to assign license plates to electric scooters, unicycles and “other electrical appliances”, introduce a presumption of guilt for drivers and a series of other regulations necessary to reduce the risk of accidents involving pedestrians and SIPs.
The main provisions of the document under preparation were told to RIA Novosti by the State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democrats, Vladimir Sipyagin. These are the following rules:
- “prohibit the circulation on the roads of the city without license plates of any individual means of transport with autonomous traction, capable of traveling at more than 5 km/h (“They are scooters, unicycles and other electrical devices”),
- prohibit driving at more than 5 km / h on slippery roads (ie in the rain and other bad weather conditions),
- and accept the presumption of guilt of the driver of a scooter, bicycle and any other vehicle capable of traveling at more than 10 km/h in any collision with a pedestrian on a sidewalk or crossing.
According to the deputy, if these rules are not adopted, if there is no SIP traffic regulation, the country will have to completely abandon electric scooters, unicycles, etc., as is practiced in Shanghai or Singapore, for the sake of pedestrian safety.
The possibility of properly integrating all types of individual means of transport into Russia’s transport infrastructure only exists if the proposed rules are adopted.
“These are the basic rules that will cover 90% of accidents involving personal vehicles. Of course, we are going to propose all these regulations of the Liberal Democratic Party to include them in the Code of Administrative Offenses”, assures the deputy.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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