Carried a child without a seat. What fine for the lack of a child seat can be issued to the driver

Statistics show that eighty percent of children who have been involved in an accident and lost their lives because of this were in a car outside child seat.

Because of this, the law Russian Federation obligated all drivers carrying small children, and especially parents, to equip their car with child seats. Let's see what the fine is for not having a child seat and what consequences non-compliance with the law can lead to.

How to properly seat a child?

The fine for transporting children was not properly introduced ten years ago, so the absence of a child seat in the car of the child's parents will definitely be punished by the traffic police inspector.

• Previously, this offense was considered as serious as an unfastened seat belt for an adult passenger and was punishable by a fine of 500 rubles, but in 2017 the law obliges to pay a fine for a child seat of a much larger amount - 3 thousand rubles.
• A legal entities for the absence of a chair, the fine is paid ten times more - 30 thousand rubles.

Modern traffic rules state that all children under the age of twelve are required to wear a seat belt with a child adapter, or be in a special seat that meets state requirements. The basic rules for transporting a child in a restraint predetermine the choice of a seat.

So, devices of a certain type are required for children of different ages:

1. Up to one year must be inside the car only in a specialized cradle;
2. Up to one and a half years are placed inside the device in a semi-lying state;
3. Up to four years must be fastened with a five-point belt;
4. Up to seven years are required to sit in a chair with a back and a seat belt;
5. Up to twelve years of age must be in a special device without a back and fastened with a standard seat belt.

If you do not properly transport minors, you will be fined for not having a child seat, even though you have one. Why is that? The thing is that transporting a child in an inappropriate device is equivalent to his absence. That is why a fine for driving without a child seat is considered one of the most frequently issued, as parents try to save money and purchase devices "for growth", which is prohibited by law.

Please note that when purchasing a chair, it is better to come to the store with your child in order to choose the most suitable equipment for him.

So you will provide your child with maximum comfort and appropriate safety. If you decide to take a chance and transport a minor in an improper way, then you will definitely be fined for transporting children without a seat at the first stop by the traffic police inspector.

Other Consequences of Violating This Law

According to the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine for transporting a child without a seat is issued to the driver, and not to the parents.

Therefore, if you will be transporting your child in someone else's car, for example, in a taxi, warn him about this so that he installs a restraining car seat in his vehicle in advance. Usually, each taxi company provides special cars, which carry out the transportation of minors together with their parents.

If you decide to travel with a child without putting him in a child seat, you are guaranteed a fine. Today, inspectors, seeing that children are traveling in a car, must inspect it and, if an offense is detected, issue a large fine for the lack of a car seat.

This is not the first time a fined driver, that is, with the next relapse, can be punished more seriously by the traffic police inspector. For example, a traffic police officer has the right to file a claim with you for frequent violations of traffic rules and deprive you of your driver's license. In this case, you will be prohibited from further driving the vehicle, which means that the car will go to a special penalty parking lot.

But what a fine for driving without would not have been provided, the transportation of children is a responsible event. If minors are injured in an accident, the driver will be given a serious criminal penalty, up to a real term of 8 years, in the presence of dead citizens.

Do not neglect the health and safety of your child, value your child. Better spend a couple of times cash on special devices than later to reproach yourself all your life for not saving your stepson. Remember also about the law in relation to drivers, which prohibits leaving minors inside the vehicle alone. Watch your children, but remember to obey the laws yourself. According to practice, the court in the presence of such violations never takes the side of the driver, because in any case he violates the traffic rules of the Russian Federation.

The safety of passengers is the duty of any driver, especially if there are children in the car. To do this, you need not only to carefully monitor the situation on the road, but also comply with the requirements of traffic rules. Modern rules oblige the car owner to ensure the implementation of a number of measures that are designed to protect the lives of underage riders.

Features of transporting children

Disappointing statistics assure that the majority of deaths could have been prevented if elementary precautions were followed. No wonder the fine for the lack of a child seat in 2016 has been preserved, because this device allows you to quite securely fix the child in the car. It is the responsibility of the driver to ensure safety, taking into account the design features of the vehicle.

According to the new rules, the organization of transportation of children under twelve years of age is allowed only if special restraints are used:

• Car seats.
• Car seats.
• Booster.
• Triangle adapter.

The movement of small passengers in the front seat is not prohibited, as before, but only if it is equipped with one of the above devices.

How to transport the little ones?

Infants are transported in a cradle, which is secured with standard seat belts. A prerequisite is the perpendicular location of the device relative to the vehicle's motion vector. In this way, you can transport a child up to 6 months of age.

In the infant car seat, the baby is located in a horizontal position and is fixed with special restraining straps. This not only allows you to avoid a fine in 2016 for the lack of a child seat, but also take care of the health of your heirs. The lying position contributes to the normal breathing of the baby, and also protects the fragile skeleton from longitudinal loads.

Car seats for children

Such devices are universal and provide excellent safety. Their fastening in the cabin is possible both with standard straps and with special latches. The child is located in a half-sitting position and is fastened with belts with a five-point or three-point fixation. Among the main advantages of such car seats should be noted:

1. The anatomical shape of the chair and the presence of a headrest.
2. Multifunctional operational orientation, the ability to use at home.
3. A wide range of modifications for children of different ages and weights.

The car seat can be installed both on the back sofa of the car and on the front seat. But there is one important detail: experts recommend fixing the device with your back in the direction of movement in order to prevent injuries to the cervical vertebrae, which have not yet grown strong in infancy. For additional fixation of the baby's head, special fabric rollers should be used.

What is the benefit of using a car seat for toddlers?

It would seem, why buy a rather expensive device, if it is enough to simply take a small passenger in your arms? Let there be a fine for the lack of a car child seat in 2016, but you still need to get to the traffic police inspector, and I’m lucky - many motorists think so and, I must say, in vain.

Practice and the laws of physics show that not everything is so simple - longitudinal loads during braking, and even more so during a collision, can cause tragic consequences. This is due to the fact that at high speed the weight of the child increases, and it is extremely problematic to keep him in such a situation. The only way out is to use a special car seat.

Seat belts are designed for car passengers whose height is over one and a half meters. Only in this case they will be effective in case of an accident, but if the passenger is shorter, then the straps will simply press on the neck. The age of 12 years, specified in the transportation rules, was chosen on the basis that the growth of a child by this time rarely reaches 1.5 meters.

What is the fine in 2016 for not having a child seat in a car?

Since 20017, in Russia, at the legislative level, it has been recognized that it is mandatory to have a special device for transporting babies in a car. Failure to comply with this rule until 2013 was equated to not fastening a seat belt and was punishable by an administrative penalty of 500 rubles.

However, the new amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses include a separate article obliging the driver to equip a separate seat for a child under twelve. The financial degree of his responsibility has also increased - the fine for the lack of a special child seat in 2016 is an amount equal to 3,000 rubles.

In certain cases, the inspector has the right to require a document proving the age of the child. Some argue that such actions of a traffic police officer are unlawful, but lawyers object - when drawing up a protocol and subsequently challenging it in court, the car owner will still have to prove the age of the baby. Therefore, in order to avoid an unpleasant situation, you should have the appropriate document with you.

If you think a little, it turns out that for an amount equivalent to penalties, you can buy a decent seat for the baby. Yes, there are products for 30,000 rubles, but finding 4-5 thousand for the safety of your child is the responsibility of every parent.

Eventually

Traveling with small passengers by car has ceased to be a personal matter of the car owner for some time now. Leaving the track, he turns into a participant in the general road traffic and is obliged to adhere to the established rules. Based on this, a car seat for a child is a mandatory attribute that can save his life in emergency situations.

In one of our articles, we already wrote that, firstly, it is not worth transporting passengers in violation of the accepted traffic rules, and secondly, this violation is fraught with a fine. You can learn more about this from the article “Penalty for transporting passengers in a cargo van, an extra passenger”. So the children we carry in our cars are passengers. Nevertheless, as usual, we pay more attention and care to children, and even thinking about an accident associated with him is generally scary. We, in this article, wanted to talk about what kind of fine the driver faces for transporting children in violation of the established traffic rules.

Traffic rules require the transportation of children in a child seat

So, before you make a verdict on the fine, you need to know for what offense it threatens you. Let's turn to traffic rules. We are interested in article 22.9 of the SDA, which can be divided into two parts, since they talk about the age limit for a child. First, these are children under 7 years old:

That is, if you are transporting a child under 7 years old, then the presence of child restraints is MANDATORY !!!

Continuing to study the same paragraph 22.9, we read further:

All that we have written above can be presented in a visual form. Like this!

Note if this front seat, then only a restraining device, that is, a child seat or something similar, can be used. In the back seat, the child can be either in the seat, or be fastened with a regular seat belt, or with the help of restraint systems that will ensure the safety of the child during transportation. What kind of restraints, for the majority, it will remain a kind of unresolved, according to their assumptions and preferences, which have not found "clear forms" in the law.
Maybe it's a pillow under the child, or maybe something that brings the straps together so that they are a little lower, or something else. …there is no precise description or standard in the law.

In fact, the law does not prescribe any clearly specialized restraint standards, which include child seats or other means. There are no references to the document according to which they must be made, nor to the conditions that it should be a child seat at all. Such a circumstance of things is not very pleasing to a reasonable driver, since, first of all, he should be concerned about the safety of the children being transported, which will be guaranteed as much as possible through a clearly regulated choice of successfully tested restraints and child seats. However, this just made it possible for manufacturers and drivers to use these very "child seat substitutes".
We will not talk about the degree of responsibility and the choice of restraints in this article so that the reader does not get everything mixed up in his head, since this is a separate topic. You can learn more about this in the article "Choosing a child seat". In fact, it is a question between the balance of responsibility and material costs. How to act in this situation, everyone decides for himself.

Rules for transporting children from 2017

In July 2017, the last important update of the law on the transportation of children took place (Decree No. 761 of 07/28/17). According to these standards, the information in our article was given.
The most important thing to learn from the law is that children from 7 to 11 years old in the back seat can wear regular seat belts. In all other cases, children must be transported using special restraints (under 7 years of age or front seat).

Now we wanted to focus on what threatens the driver if he transports children without restraints, that is, without a seat, or if the child is not fastened.

Penalty for transporting children without a child seat (devices) or if the child is not fastened (Article 12.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, part 3)

For children and for adults, the same article applies, but different parts in it. Namely, article 12.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. Part 2 prescribes punishment for the carriage of adult passengers, here you can get off with a minimum fine, about this in the article "Penalty for violation of the rules for the carriage of passengers". But for children already part 3, which says:

That is, for improper transportation of a child under 12 years old, they can take a fine of 3,000 rubles, and this is a much more serious fine than for an adult passenger.

Is it possible to pay a fine for transporting children without a seat at a discount

Since 2016, motorists have a great opportunity to save a little on fines. These fines should not apply to articles related to alcohol and drug intoxication, as well as cases of significant speeding and relapses regarding violations of the continuous marking line. That is, as you understand, a fine for a child seat can be paid at a discount. It is important that the fine is paid within a certain period. This specific period will be the date from the beginning of the appearance of the fine in the traffic police database, but no later than 20 days from the date of the decision.

Question answer on the topic "Penalty for transporting children without a child seat"

Question: Is it possible to transport a child only by fastening regular seat belts?
Answer: Yes, if the child is 7 years old and is sitting in the back seat.

Question: Can FEST be used to transport children in the front seat?
Answer: It is possible (2017), there are no restrictions on this type of holding device.

Question: What is the penalty for a child seat or if the child is not fastened?
Answer: 3000 rubles.