Preventive measures of the traffic police

February 20, 2024

From February 16 to February 26, the State Traffic Inspectorate is conducting additional preventive measures, as well as raids targeting passenger carriers in regular and irregular minibus services.

From February 16 to February 26, the State Traffic Inspectorate is conducting additional preventive measures, as well as raids targeting passenger carriers in regular and irregular minibus services.

Please note that during this period, State Traffic Inspectorate officers will carry out effective daily control over drivers of minibuses during traffic supervision, ensuring compliance with the Traffic Rules and other traffic legislation, including mixed control of specific transportation. Transport inspection officers will also join these activities.

– The main violations among drivers of route vehicles include: carrying passengers beyond the established capacity, dropping off (picking up) passengers outside designated stops, exceeding the speed limit, non-compliance with road signs and markings, and deviating from the established route.

There have been accidents involving route vehicles where people have been injured. On the afternoon of February 7, a 31-year-old driver of a "Bykhov-Mogilev" route taxi was traveling on the M-4 "Minsk-Mogilev" highway. Near the village of Vasilievshchina, the driver did not account for unfavorable weather conditions, chose an unsafe speed, and due to inattention, lost control of the vehicle, colliding with a metal median barrier. As a result of the accident, 8 people sustained multiple injuries of varying severity.

Two of the injured were taken to the Borisov Central Regional Hospital.

According to preliminary information, the minibus driver was distracted by his mobile phone while driving. Passengers made remarks to him and even recorded this on their mobile phones a few seconds before the accident.

The 31-year-old man had previously been brought to administrative responsibility at least 10 times by the State Traffic Inspectorate, including for violations related to passenger transportation. And in October of last year, while driving a minibus, he was the cause of an accident.

The State Traffic Inspectorate strongly recommends that drivers strictly adhere to traffic rules.

movements, choose a safe speed, board and alight from a route vehicle in strictly designated areas, at marked stops. In turn, passengers must under no circumstances demand that the driver stop the route vehicle in an unauthorized location