2019 Highway News: peninsula has finally worked out an effective method of levying fines on yellow and blue cars. Now the citizens of Ukraine are detained on the Crimean border and not released for Perekop, until they pay the full amount of the penal receipts.
Last summer from 6,2 million tourists about a million came to Crimea from Ukraine. understandably, the remaining five million are Russians. “In total, in relation to foreign citizens, employees of the State traffic inspectorate compiled 5330 administrative offenses, at the same time administrative fines in the amount of 8 million. 454 thousand rubles ", – reported in the fall of 2018, the republican traffic police. Actually, sensational figure. It turned out a little more than half of all fines, discharged for violation of traffic rules in the republic. I.e, Ukrainians arrived 1/6 of the total number of vacationers, and they fined a fine half of the total amount of fines.
However early to rejoice. Experience has shown, that imposing a fine on a Ukrainian tourist does not mean getting it. The explanation is simple.. The Crimean protocol could be acted as if with a disposable napkin. Behind the next bend, tear a silly piece of paper and throw it out the window. Yes, sometimes trouble, when on the way back at the checkpoint crossing the customs broke through the database and demanded payment. Although such a border scandal ended quickly. Crimean law enforcement officers did not have the right to detain "road debtors". Indeed, de jure, a citizen has the right to pay a fine for a sufficiently long time. Although in reality, not a penny came from Ukraine.
The same hopeless situation with fines for violations, fixed by automatic cameras. These receipts did not reach the addressees in Ukraine at all. The operators of fixation complexes simply do not have a base, by which "letters of happiness" can be sent to a neighboring country, and the traffic police overseeing the process had no mechanisms, to force Ukrainian drivers to pay. As a result, Ukrainian guests did not bother at all about the speed limit, intersection of solid and signal traffic lights.
But now the road greyhound has become too expensive. Starting this June, violators will not be able to stop the Crimean-Ukrainian cordon and leave the country, until they pay off 100% travel receipts.
Now at the border there is a full amount of data on fines. The most interesting, the base is constantly updated with information about violations, fixed by automatic cameras. Useless shrug, breakwater, did not know and did not receive receipts. The only option: you want “to go home, to the hut " – go to the cash register. Already have cases, when Ukrainian drivers not only had to stay in Crimea, but also get an illegal shabashka, to pay thousands of fines and take your car out of the peninsula.
Crimean social networks clearly supported the new regime. Here are the most typical comments:
– Everyone on the road should have equal rights and responsibilities. Of course, Maidan does not like. At one time, the Russians drove as they wanted in the Crimea with impunity. Now it's the other way around. Me yesterday through a continuous in Inkerman such “fatty” Audi went around on the stopwatches…still thought: now you will come to the border):
– Well done!!!! It is high time, and then the guys come and behave as they want, and they wanted to spit on the rules, endangering not only yourself, but us and our children!!!
– I have been in Crimea since 2014. Then the locals went like that, that just tryndets. Then the natives basically took up the mind, and the neighbors continued to be naughty. Now stop.
Ilya Sergeev
