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“When the Road Safety Act was drafted, a lot of attention was paid to crime prevention. But lately, it has raised questions about it, as speedometers have become good readers. This also destroys the prestige of the law.” said Kazys Starkevičius, president of the Seimas Economic Committee.
Seimas member Gintautas Paluckas also supported him, noting that the situation was strange: people lived, traveled and then received dozens of protocols in a short time.
“If you get a lot of violations after half a year, you become a repeat offender. And there is a terrible sense of injustice,” he said, noting that there were legitimate questions about how the speedometers were put into operation without first providing his information link to the Registry. of Administrative Offenses (ANR).
According to him, in such a situation, the question arises whether the meter could have been put into use if the functionality of the system was not guaranteed.
“Functionality is not just about taking pictures and storing them in memory. The entire operation is handed over to the ANR, where a protocol is drawn up and a fine is sent. The system has to work and the people, in my head, are deservedly outraged ”, he emphasized.
Released but no contract
Remigijus Lipkevičius, director of the Lithuanian Highway Administration (LAKD), which installed 70 new speedometers in Lithuania last year, said that public procurement was completed last year and contracts were signed with contractors who committed to installing the meters in different locations.
After the installation of the meters, they were tested, their metrological verification was carried out, then, after the warning signs were erected, the meters were put into operation.
“Both LAKD and the media informed the public about this. The first publications about it appeared in November-December of last year. Those meters registered violations not only due to speed, but also due to technical inspection and insurance,” he explained R. Lipkevičius.
With the meters already in operation, LAKD coordinated matters with the contract with the Department of Information Technology and Communications (IRD), to which the data collected by the meters had to be delivered. This process, according to the director, lasted until February 2021, and on March 2. a contract was signed and all protocols were issued in accordance with all recorded violations.
It was seconded by Darius Ražinskas, Head of LAKD’s Department of Highway Taxes and Intelligent Transportation Systems, who emphasized that the data recorded by the meter as a measuring instrument was considered correct after metrological verification.
“It is not possible to install meters at the same time in all of Lithuania, and contracts with the IRD are concluded for a group of meters, not for each one separately. And therefore the signing of contracts is possible only when the installation of the last meter is completed. And now the data really flows non-stop, all the interfaces have been created ”, said the expert.
It should act as a “tripod”
However, the current situation irritated Seimas deputy Jonas Pinskas. He wondered how it was possible to install speedometers, start collecting data, and sign contracts later.
“What right did you have to sign all the data after signing the contracts? I understand if this data would be collected from the signing of the contract ”, J. Pinskus was surprised.
According to him, stationary speedometers should function in the same way as mobile speedometers used by the police, called “tripods”.
“It is not that I have accumulated and then 80 protocols come,” replied a member of the Seimas.
The move didn’t help, he’s still taking pictures.
Vytautas Grašys, head of the Lithuanian Highway Police Service, emphasized that the police do not feel guilty about such an abundance of protocols because, anyway, they are talking about violations of traffic rules, which abound in a place like the settlement. of Riešė. .
In addition, stressed the head of the Road Police, all road safety measures originated at the initiative of the community.
He calculated that since the speedometer started in late October, 19,000. drivers exceeded the speed limit of 30 km / h above 20 km / h. Another 3,300 exceeded the speed limit there by as much as 30 km / h. 286 drivers flew by at speeds of up to 40 km / h. faster than possible, in addition to the 19 that exceeded the speed of 51 km / h. and more. Drivers with two years of experience, even those who have suffered such a violation, lose their right to drive.
There was no media attention for those who went through the wrist meter.
“Definitely because of that, all the media rang on the meter, but even after its publication, it recorded another 455 cases where the allowed speed was exceeded,” commented V. Grašys.
Referring to the number of protocols received by drivers, he mentioned that according to police data, a maximum of one person received 82 administrative complaints for infraction.
The contract is prepared in advance
When the Seimas members noted that the procedure should be changed and the meters should be used only when signing agreements with the IRD on data transmission, R. Lipkevičius emphasized that the situation should not be repeated with regard to new projects.
“We have now signed up before launching the new gauges, as the development of medium speed gauges is planned. So there will be no question about the transfer of data to the IAS,” he promised.
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