How to pick up a car from impound after drinking?

According to the Code of Administrative Offenses, drunk driving leads to serious consequences, it is not only a large fine and deprivation of rights for up to two years, it is also suspension from driving and evacuation of the car to a car impound.

How can you pick up a car from a car impound after drinking? Let's try to deal with this issue.

Car in impound lot

The driver who is in a state of intoxication is suspended from driving. When drawing up the protocol, two witnesses must be present during the medical examination. It is also desirable that this fact be recorded on a video camera, and the contact details of witnesses should be indicated in the protocol.

Even at this stage, you can avoid sending the car, just call the person entered in the OSAGO or a trusted person to pick up the car. If there are no such people, then the vehicle will come tow truck. The driver is given a copy of the protocol, which contains information about the inspector. Based on these data, it will be possible to determine which department of the traffic police is dealing with your case, and to which impound lot the car was sent.

It is clear that if the car owner is in a strong state of intoxication, he can be sent to a sobering-up station. However, the car must be picked up as soon as possible. According to changes in the Code of Administrative Offenses, inspectors do not have the right to seize any documents from drivers. The person will be told where and when the trial will take place on their particular issue. That is, for at least another ten days, you will still have the rights, but this is on condition that you have not committed criminally punishable actions that are punishable in accordance with the requirements of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

In order to pick up the car from the impoundment after drinking, you need to have the following documents:

• Help permission from the traffic police;
• All vehicle documents;
• Power of attorney issued by the owner;
• OSAGO.

Naturally, you must have a license if you want to drive away on your own. If not, then you can choose one of three options:

• issue a power of attorney for another person, not necessarily included in the OSAGO;
• call one of the drivers inscribed in OSAGO;
• use the services of the evacuation service.

It is no secret that often after the evacuation and storage of the vehicle in the impound lot, the owners find new damage. What to do in this case, we have previously written on Vodi.su. It is also worth noting that the help of a trusted person - a relative or colleague - can also be used at the time of registration of the protocol, that is, so that he drives the car to the garage.

What changes are the State Duma deputies preparing?

As you can see, even after drinking, picking up cars from a car impound is quite simple, you can even avoid this punishment altogether. However, State Duma deputies and lawmakers in Russia, concerned about the increase in the number of drunk drivers and the number of accidents they commit, are preparing innovations that will significantly complicate the fate of those who like to drive drunk.

At the end of 2014, amendments to the Administrative Code were prepared, according to which a driver stopped by traffic police inspectors for driving while intoxicated can pick up a car from a parking lot only after paying a deposit equivalent to a monetary fine for this violation, that is, 30 thousand rubles. By the way, they want to increase the fine to 50 thousand.

In May 2016, the deputies of the State Duma approved this bill, and then it was sent for consideration to the Government of the Russian Federation. Since then, the debate has not ceased, hundreds of voices are heard both in support and against these changes.

More recently, in September 2017, information appeared that these amendments would still come into force by the end of 2017. On the one hand, this is an absolutely correct decision, since a drunk driver is a violator of the law, who endangers not only his own life, but also the lives of other road users.

On the other hand, this is a direct violation of constitutional norms, an encroachment on the property of a person whose guilt has not yet been proven. As we know, we have excesses in everything, and if drunken “majors” who knock people down get away with it, then ordinary citizens suffer, because an increased level of alcohol vapor can be not only from vodka or beer, but even from kefir , kvass or alcohol-containing medicines. And often the “tubes” themselves give out an error above the norm.

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