Is it possible to stand on the "island of safety"

Often, traffic police officers fine drivers not only for parking on "safety islands", but even just for driving on them. In fact, this is not entirely legal, but for some reason, drivers are in no hurry to challenge fines for this.

There are two typical situations when a driver is fined for finding his car on a safety island: for parking on it and for driving on it. As for the parking lot, in each case you need to look at what kind of “island” it is. Appropriate markings can be applied to the asphalt in the middle of the street, at a pedestrian crossing (so that they can wait until the “green” lights up again), at an intersection so that cars drive along the correct trajectories, and also at the confluence / separation of car flows on a multi-lane road. If a citizen decides to park his car on a “safety island” intended for pedestrians, then he will most likely end up right in the “zebra” zone.

In this case, the Code of Administrative Offenses has a special article - 12.19 (violation of the rules of parking and stopping). For the "transition" she promises a fine of 1000 rubles. And in general, they can evacuate. In the case when the “safety island” chosen by the citizen for parking is located at the “crossing of the carriageways” - within the intersection, that is, the law does not allow to evacuate his car. Here he faces only a fine (all according to the same 12.19) - but only 500 rubles. The most ambiguous parking option is within the “island”, which is located at the confluence or separation of traffic flows, but not at the intersection. There are plenty of such striped patches of asphalt at exits and entrances not only to highways, but in general to more or less large streets and road junctions.

Note that in these places drivers are actively fined not only for parking, but simply for driving through the "island" - in the capital, for example, there are several cameras for automatically fixing violations aimed solely at "haircutting" fines for driving on this kind of white stripes on the asphalt. Fined for both of these violations of the same article of the Code of Administrative Offenses - 12.16, for non-compliance with the requirements prescribed by road signs or markings. The fine is 500 rubles. Penal orders of this kind usually write that the driver violated the requirements of paragraph 1.16.2 of Appendix 2 to the SDA.

But if you read this very paragraph 1.16.2, it turns out that such a marking does not, in fact, require or prescribe anything to the driver, but only, a quote, "denotes islands that separate traffic flows in one direction." That is, in fact, driving on such an “island” is not a violation in principle from the point of view of traffic rules. For parking in such a place, if it is necessary to fine, then it’s not at all under the article on violation of marking requirements, which, in fact, does not exist. Here, for example, you can find the composition of the offense for paragraph 3.2 of Article 12.19 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - “stopping or parking vehicles further than the first row from the edge of the roadway”, which implies 1500 rubles and allows the car to be evacuated to a parking lot.