Верзилин С.В.

The ensuring road safety is a difficult and complex task, which requires the legislators of all states that are members of the European Region to make significant efforts to take legal measures to ensure the proper level of traffic safety. The article discusses the legislative regulation in the field of traffic in the Republic of Latvia and Estonia that has both scientific and practical interest for improving the Russian legislation. It was concluded that it is possible to adapt a number of provisions of regulatory legal acts to the Russian Law «Highway Traffic Act» and other legislative documents based on the study of the legislation of the considered countries. The particular attention is paid to the legislative separation of powers between executive authorities in the field of road safety, the system of training adults and children on the road behavior and culture as an important element of the general system for the traffic accidents prevention, the basis for the legal regulation of working hours and time off work of vehicle drivers.

The analysis and the evaluation of activities in the field of road safety is performed. The state of the transport and the road infrastructure of the region is considered. The main types, causes and conditions of an accident are identified. The road traffic injuries of various categories of road users are analyzed. The absolute and relative accident rates in the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Central Black Earth Region are determined.Additional measures ensuring the reduction of the number of traffic accidents and the severity of their consequence are proposed.

The issues of formation and implementation of a unified state policy in the field of road safety in the Russian Federation are considered. The analysis of the authority «on the vertical of power» between various authorities and other obliged subjects in accordance with Federal Law of 12.10.1995 No. 196-FL «The Road Safety» is carried out. The article noted that the performance of public functions «ensuring road safety» priority is provided primarily by the federal bodies of executive power. The main directions of ensuring road safety on the roads of regional and intermunicipal importance in the implementation of road activities in relation to the executive authorities of the Russian Federation are identified and considered. The necessity of transferring part of the powers under consideration from the regions to the federal executive authorities through the conclusion of relevant agreements - administrative treaties is proved. It is concluded that the compulsory participation of local governments in the development and implementation of measures to ensure traffic safety is needed.

The article analyzes strategic policy documents for road safety in the Russian Federation: the Federal Target Program «Improving Road Safety in 2013-2020; “Improving road safety in the Voronezh region for the period 2014-2020; Federal Law of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2013 No. 92-FZ “On Amendments to the Federal Law on Road Safety” and others. According to the results of the study, the need to develop and adjust the regulatory acts governing accident prevention activities in road transport organizations was established. The main directions of improving the regulatory legal regulation in the field of road safety are identified.

The use of means of automatic fixation of traffic violations in places of traffic accidents’ concentration can improve the level of legal awareness and discipline of road users. Due to the functioning of the CRIS-Voronezh photo-video recording system in the region in 2012-2017, it was possible to achieve a steady reduction in the number of road accidents and the severity of their consequences. However, in the work on the use of auto-commit violations of traffic rules during traffic supervision, a considerable number of outstanding issues has appeared affecting the efficiency of their use. These issues concern both the organizational and the regulatory characters. It is proposed to develop the concept of improving the system of automatic fixation of traffic violations for the further improvement of road safety on the territory of the Voronezh region.