Road users who drive a car, van or truck into a crowd of people peacefully protesting on the street go unpunished due to a loophole in the law
According to the report of the General Directorate of the European Union for Mobility and Transport, the Republic of Serbia ranks fourth in Europe in terms of the number of deaths in traffic accidents.
To this should be added the fact that every month one child dies and slightly more than 110 children are injured in traffic accidents. The minute to twelve has long passed, and the system does not take any measures to prevent traffic accidents, nor is there any systemic action.
We have witnessed that in the last couple of years we have had countless examples of someone driving a car or van, with a truck and a random machine, he runs into the people who are peacefully protesting on the street, demanding their rights.
During such violent behavior, pedestrians were knocked down and trampled, causing serious or minor injuries. For all of this there are witnesses, videos on social networks and media reports that reported on it from the scene.
Igor Velić, master traffic engineer, in the author's text on the "sigurnestaze.com" portal, points out that he has never heard representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Agency for Traffic Safety speak out about such rude and violent behavior that endangers people's lives and health.
He reminds that the protests include children, young people, students, the elderly, people with disabilities and mothers with small children, so the question arises as to why road users who drive their cars, vans or trucks into a crowd of people peacefully protesting are not punished. street demanding their rights?
That is why Velić proposes to amend and adopt the new Law on Road Traffic Safety, correcting and supplementing Article 41, which defines violent driving.
Namely, Article 41 states that "Riolent driving is a driver's behavior that is in gross violation of the traffic rules, that is, when the driver shows no regard for the safety of other traffic participants."
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How is violent driving defined?
Let us remind you that violent driving includes:
1) when the driver passes a lighted traffic sign two or more times when he is prohibited from passing by that sign, if no more than 10 minutes have passed between two consecutive passes,
2) when the driver overtakes a column of vehicles, where his vehicle crosses or moves along an uninterrupted longitudinal line that separates the road lanes in the directions of movement,
3) movement of vehicles on the road in the settlement at a speed that is more than 90 km/h higher than the permitted speed, i.e. outside the settlement at a speed that is more than 100 km/h higher than the permitted speed,
4) driving a vehicle while fully intoxicated (more than 2,00 mg/ml).
Igor Velić, due to the recent events at the civil protests in Serbia, proposes that a new item should be added to Article 41, which would read - "that driving a motor vehicle on the road where sports or other events, public gatherings and civil protests".
In this way, according to Velić, traffic safety would be improved.
"Institutionally and legally, we must do our best to prevent and sanction this type of behavior. Because as stated in the third article of the law, 'Each traffic participant is obliged to behave in a way that will not hinder, endanger or injure other participants, as well as to take all necessary measures to avoid or eliminate dangerous situations caused by the behavior of other traffic participants, if he does not put himself or others in danger,'" concluded Velić.
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SNS provocateurs playing "disaffected citizens" all over Serbia caused incidents during commemorative blockades. In Belgrade, someone pushed people with a car, and an elderly lady slapped the crowd.
There are more than indications that it is not any "disgruntled citizens" but gathered provocateurs close to the ruling party or even its members.
There were two such people in the Takovska Street blockade in front of RTS, one of whom pushed the people in the blockade with his car for fifteen minutes. Like, he was in a hurry - although he definitely didn't want to, like most drivers, turn the car around and go the other way.
The "Vremena" reporter heard him with his own ears while, walking around the car, he called someone on the phone and asked "where is the reinforcement".
However, there were no "reinforcements" and the "citizen in a hurry" did not run over anyone in the end, but had to wait at the end of the blockade.
By the way, MP Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, who was the first to reach the impatient car, shouted to the crowd that no one should react to provocations or accidentally hit a car.
The "lady" slapped the citizen
Andreja from Zvezdara, who took part in the blockade of the intersection of Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra and Batutova this Friday, contacted the editors of "Vremena" and received a slap from a woman she considers a provocateur.
He says several "ladies" of about sixty years old were elbowing each other and cursing the citizens.
"One spat and shouted at us 'poo poo shit, monkeys, cattle', then she insulted my father. Another elbowed people in the ribs and you can see exactly that she is expecting a reaction. But when I turned around, she slapped me. At first I was confused and I just told her to 'get out of the way now', and she cursed and continued to hit people with her elbow," says Andreja.
"I had the desire to enter the conflict, but I didn't because the people around me begged me not to react." Because they do it so that we would react. Like in bad movies with desperate direction," she adds.
As he says, the appearance of such people at gatherings is equally heartbreaking and tragic. "The idea that the loss of one, let alone fifteen, lives is not worth standing for fifteen minutes." They are provocateurs, but they are also our fellow citizens."
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