WE AND THE CAR
/ WITHOUT GUILT
HE WANTED HELP
TIME THIS DESIRE IS FREEDOM OF TROUBLESHOOT
TEXT / ALEXANDER ZHIKHAREV
The September morning did not bode well: George R. was quietly riding his Nissan Terrano. Crossroads, red signal, sergeant talking on the radio. Suddenly the expression on the face of the servant changed sharply and he rushed to George's car:
- Listen, the car is trying to escape from the scene of an accident - there’s that red Peugeot! Let's catch up!
Why not help? George put pressure on the gas, and the jeep jerked off after a car that was leaving at a speed of "a hundred." But the distance between the cars was growing rapidly - how to catch up with the Peugeot without violating the Rules? But he follows the instructions of a police officer! George had the feeling that he had received carte blanche - that was precisely what had failed him.
WHICH PRIVATE DETECTIVE WITHOUT A RUN?
The sergeant pulled out a gun and twitched the bolt. I immediately remembered the shots from the film: “Shoot, Gleb Yegorych, otherwise they will leave, damned!” But it didn’t come to a shoot-out: in a turn, the wheel of a jeep fell into a hole and the car turned around. The rattle of metal, the clink of glass - the blow fell on the oncoming Volga. The accident turned out to be “successful”, if, of course, such a term is applicable here - there were no seriously injured. But the nose of the Volga curled to one side, and the Nissan did not look well. Only from the car's speakers did Elvis Presley's voice soothingly sound, and a headlight bulb swayed to the music to the music.
The sergeant jumped out of the jeep: “Are there any injured? Not? Then I call the patrol car. And left. George did not see him again.
Traffic police began to work. Noticing a wound on George’s leg (in a fever he did not pay attention to blood), they called an ambulance and sent the victim to the hospital. Only there he thought about what had happened. Everyone is alive - and thank God. But who will restore the broken cars?
LOST WITNESS
The interrogator looked sternly at George:
- You know, dear, after such accidents we usually deprive “rights” for half a year or a year. Caught up with the car at the request of the traffic police inspector? I do not know anything. The documents do not say this.
Only after questioning the witnesses - the driver and passenger of the injured Volga (they saw the sergeant and even remembered his last name), the interrogator made a Solomon decision:
- Try to find it yourself.
It turned out that this is not an easy task, even if the surname, rank, unit, time and place of service are known. In any case, George did not succeed: the leaders of the battalion looked away, and not a single one answered clearly whether they had such an employee. Meanwhile, the investigator, without hitting a finger on his finger to search for the inspector, wrote: “We could not interview the witness.” And he delivered a verdict - George was guilty of the accident. Apparently, at heart, realizing that he himself was not right, he had mercy and did not take away “rights” - he was limited to a fine of 5 minimum wages. Naturally, George appealed against the decision to a higher authority.
A new interrogator took up the matter. He immediately said that the sergeant’s identity was established (already progress!), But he could not be questioned, since he had gone on vacation. A month later, the main witness (or the culprit?), The accident was still on heavy and long vacation. This case would have dragged on if the petition had not laid down on the table of the head of the city traffic police. And he reasoned, and in Russian: not by law, but by justice. On the one hand, he considered the verdict of the parsing group absolutely correct - the driver was guilty, not the traffic police officer, who provoked a violation of the Rules. On the other hand, he admitted a sinner for his service.
He met with George, thanked the police for his help, and even handed the commemorative medal to the culprit of the accident (the scene, you see, is absurd!). And he agreed to restore the jeep at the departmental service (the battered Volga had already been repaired by that time). In a word, both the wolves were fed up (the uniform's honor was not damaged), and the sheep were safe (Georgy again drives a car). Here's a story - with a happy ending?
Catch up on the rules
What to do, what to do if a police officer demands assistance? Even if one does not take into account his civil position, he cannot be denied - this can be qualified as disobeying the lawful requirements of a police officer (Article 165 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the RSFSR). For such a short time to lose “rights” or even be detained for 15 days. Clause 2.3.3 of the SDA obliges drivers to provide a vehicle to police officers "in urgent cases provided for by applicable law."