Understanding Traffic Law: Key Principles and Regulations
Key Principles and Regulations of Traffic Law
1. What is the purpose of the Law of Traffic?
Its aim is the organization, planning, development, regulation, modernization, and control of Land Transportation, Traffic, and Road Safety.
2. General Principles of the Law of Traffic:
- Right to life, free movement, and mobility
- Formalization of the sector
- Fight against corruption
- Improving citizens’ quality of life and preservation of the environment
- Devolution and decentralization
3. Inland Bodies:
- The Ministry of Industry
- The National Land Transport, Road Traffic and Safety, and its decentralized bodies
- The National Traffic Control and Road Safety and its decentralized bodies
4. Classes of Land Transport Services:
- Public
- Commercial
- On your own
5. Indicate the Competition of the National Commission on Transit:
Permits operation of commercial transport services, at any rate, for the interprovincial level.
6. Traffic Offenses are Divided into:
Crimes and misdemeanors.
7. The Circumstances of Traffic Violations are:
Mitigating and aggravating.
8. Indicate an Aggravating Circumstance and a Mitigating One:
- Aggravating: Evading justice by flight or concealment.
- Mitigating: Giving notice to the authority.
9. How Many Points are Deducted for Violations and Crimes?
- Violations are punishable by a reduction of 1.5 to 10 points.
- Crimes are punishable by a reduction of 11 to 30 points.
10. Indicate a Slight Infringement of the First Class that Cannot be Committed by Drivers:
Disposing of waste that pollutes the environment from inside a vehicle on public roads.
11. What is the Punishment for Minor Violations of the Second Class?
- A fine equivalent to 10% of the basic unified remuneration.
- Reduction of 3 points on the driver’s license.
12. Indicate a Slight Infringement of the Third Class:
The driver making a sudden lane change or abusing it.
13. What Type of Infringement is Sanctioned with Community Work?
Third-class minor violations.
14. What is the Fine for a Serious Infringement of the First Class and How Many Points are Reduced on the Driver’s License?
- A fine of 30% of the basic unified salary of workers in general.
- Reduction of 6 points on your driver’s license.
15. Indicate a Serious Infringement of the Second Class:
Building or arranging to build speed bumps on the carriageway of roads without prior authorization or not observing the provisions of the enabling regulations.
16. Indicate a Serious Infringement of the Third Class:
A traffic accident that results in only material damage, whose costs are less than two basic unified remunerations.
17. Indicate what a Real Restraining Measure is:
It is a measure to ensure compliance with the penalty or punishment. It is real in character because it applies to things, whether movable or immovable property.
18. What is the Deposit?
It is a measure of real character that serves to secure the attendance of the offender at trial. It’s a kind of guarantee or security.
19. What Type of Resources can be Applied to Traffic Offenses?
- Appeal
- Cassation
- Review
20. Indicate the Target of Education for Traffic and Road Safety:
To reduce traffic accidents routinely.
Requirements for Driving Schools
21. Indicate Requirements to be Bound by Driving Schools:
Physical facilities, vehicles, and tools for theoretical and practical learning.
Road Safety Actors
22. Who are the Actors of Road Safety?
- Pedestrians
- Passengers
- Bicyclists and their rights
- Vehicles
- The Ways
- Pollution from mobile sources
- Visual pollution
SOAT and FONSAT
23. What is SOAT and FONSAT?
SOAT: The SOAT is insurance that protects the victims of a traffic accident. It is binding and irrevocable. It is a requirement to circulate in the country and to obtain registration.
FONSAT: This fund is used to treat victims, transported and not transported, and relatives of those in accidents caused by unidentified vehicles or those without SOAT.
24. What is the Difference Between SOAT and FONSAT?
SOAT is insurance and is charged when the vehicle is identified, while FONSAT is an institution to which payment is processed once the vehicle is not identified.