In Russia, drunk drivers will be deprived of the rights

Rights will be taken away if it detects a blood alcohol

The government Commission on legislative activities approved the amendments to the administrative offences code stipulating administrative liability upon detection of the driver’s blood alcohol.

At the moment, deprive the person of a driver’s license for drunk driving only when alcohol is detected in breath.

Relevant information published on the portal of projects of the PPA. The bill proposes the note to article 12.8 Cao be supplemented with a provision, according to which administrative liability in the form of deprivation of driver’s license will occur in the case of an established fact of the use of alcoholic beverages, which is determined by including the presence of absolute ethyl spirit in concentration of 0,3 and more grammes on one litre of blood. Now, with the establishment of the fact of alcohol use by blood collection administrative responsibility does not come.

So now the drivers whom the police suspected of drunk driving, will be able to take blood, but only in cases when the fact of consumption of alcohol it is impossible to determine by sampling of the exhaled air, for example, if the driver is heavily drunk or unconscious.

Under the current wording of this article, the state of alcoholic intoxication is determined by the presence of ethyl alcohol in the exhaled air in the amount of 0.16 milligrams per liter of exhaled air. The responsibility for these values are exceeded a penalty of 30 000 rubles with deprivation of the right of management by vehicles for the term from six months to two years. For repeated Commission of the offense provided for criminal liability – the penalty of a fine of up to 300,000 roubles, compulsory works or deprivation of liberty for a term up to two years.

Amendments to the administrative code proposed by the Ministry of interior. Their adoption “will eliminate legal gaps in legislation in the field of ensuring road traffic safety,” reads the explanation. The bill will be considered at the government meeting. In the case of adoption of the amendments will enter into force on 1 January 2018.

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