According to traffic rules, special signals are divided into light and sound. The state standard, which describes this concept, applies to motorcycles, special services vehicles. According to the SDA, the use of special signals is provided in certain situations.
To give a warning about the movement of special equipment, an audio signal is provided. It does not belong to the staff of the transport structure, but it has strong differences in the sound composition and is installed additionally on special vehicles only with the appropriate permission, which is issued in the traffic police.
Flashing Light
According to SDA, a flashing beacon is referred to special signals. This is a device designed to feed the traffic sign with other vehicles through the light on the passage of special equipment. The flashing light on different vehicles has different shades, flashing frequency, duration of glow. According to the SDA, the special signal is not a regular element of the transport structure and must be installed separately with the permission of the traffic police.
Shades of flashing beacons
Installed flashing beacons can be of different colors. Each of them has its purpose:
- Blue is installed on vehicles of operational services of all kinds.
- Blue and optional red. According to the traffic regulations, special red-blue signals are allowed to be used only on vehicles of the State traffic inspectorate, the Military traffic inspectorate, and the Federal Security Service.
- White moon. It is used in federal postal transport; it has a light strip on a blue background on the outer side surface. Also, a white-moon flashing light can be installed on vehicles transporting cash and valuable cargo. Such machines should have special colorographic images printed in accordance with the State Standard.
- Orange, yellow color. These shades are used in vehicles that carry out construction, repair, and road maintenance works, in the transportation of bulky, explosive, highly flammable, toxic, radioactive substances, as well as in vehicles that accompany dangerous goods or oversized cargoes.
Installation Features
To install a flashing light of blue or red-blue color on a vehicle, a special sound signal, it is necessary to obtain permission in the traffic police. When issuing such a certificate is made in the vehicle registration certificate.
To install a white, orange (yellow) flashing light, special permission is not required.
Misuse of signals
According to the SDA, a machine with a special signal must have permission to install and use warning devices of this type. If this is not the case, then the inclusion of a flashing beacon and a sound signal is regarded as an illegal action and is prosecuted by law.
Spontaneous installation of a special signal in transport entails the imposition of a fine of 5,000 rubles with the subsequent confiscation of the subject of the offense. This is described in the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, part 2, article 12.4.
If the offender suddenly pays a fine within twenty days of the decision, the amount of the fine is halved, i.e. he will pay not 5000 rubles, but half the amount - 2500 rubles. In other cases, the penalty is paid in full (Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, part 1, article 32.2).
Responsibility
As indicated in the SDA, the use of a special signal is illegal, and those who drove a vehicle with a flashing light, an audible signal without proper permission are held administratively liable. Such drivers are deprived of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one year to one and a half years. Illegal devices installed on the machine are eliminated (part 4 of article 12.5 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation).
The inclusion of special signals while driving, without permission, threatens the driver with the deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for up to two years.
Section 3 SDA
According to traffic rules, special signals can only be used by the appropriate services. This is described in section 3 of the rules of the road.
Paragraph 3.1 of the section says what deviations from traffic rules are allowed by drivers of special vehicles with a working blue flashing light. They are allowed to depart from the rules of DD only when performing official tasks. However, even they cannot ignore the requirements of the traffic controller and the implementation of some other rules.
To get an advantage over other participants in the DD, special vehicles drivers must include a special sound alert and a blue flashing light. The same rule is used by drivers who have applied special colorographic images and moving with a working blue-red flashing light and a sound signal.
Paragraph 3.2 states that all participants in the movement, having heard sounds and seen signal lights, must give way for unhindered passage of special equipment and accompanying vehicles.
It is forbidden to overtake a vehicle on which special colorographic signs are applied to the outer surfaces and which has a flashing blue-red beacon and a special sound signal.
Paragraph 3.3 describes how the driver should behave on the road when he meets a car with a blue-red beacon on. According to the SDA, it is necessary to reduce the speed and stop at the request of the state inspectorate.
Vehicle drivers carrying bulky goods and on which yellow-orange flashing beacons are installed may deviate from the requirements of signs and road markings, but provided road safety is maintained.
Drivers of a vehicle with a white-moon flashing beacon have no advantages over other vehicles. They may include a beacon and a special sound signal only to attract attention when attacking vehicles.
Details on the use of special signals are described in the video.
Meeting the transport with a working sound signal and a beacon, other participants of the DD are obliged to give way. In this case, dangerous situations for other drivers should not be created. On this basis, special vehicles are allowed to rebuild with non-compliance with traffic rules and perform various maneuvers, but without violating road safety.