Chapter 6. Rights and duties of drivers and other persons in special cases

• 25. Drivers of operative-service vehicles with turned on beacon lights of blue or blue and red colors may depart from the requirements of traffic lights, road signs and road marking, and also of sub-clause 9.8 of clause 9, sub-clause 10.4 of clause 10, Chapter 9 (except sub-clauses 56 and 57), Chapters 10–15, 17–19 of these Rules subject to ensuring the road traffic safety.

  The same right is enjoyed by drivers of vehicles being accompanied by operative-service vehicles with turned-on beacon lights of blue or blue and red colours.

  Rights and duties of drivers and other persons, when carrying out the state protection, are determined by these Rules having regard to the peculiarities provided by the legislative acts in the sphere of state protection.

• 26. When approaching an operative-service vehicle with turned-on blue beacon light, drivers, irrespective of the direction of their movement, must give way and ensure unobstructed passing for this operative-service vehicle and in the event of its movement in an organized transport column — also for other vehicles moving in this column.

  When being approached by an operative-service vehicle with turned-on blue and red beacon lights, drivers of vehicles moving in the same direction and, if there is no dividing strip, also drivers of oncoming vehicles must stop on the verge, and if there is no verge — occupy extreme right position in the right traffic lane and stop.

  It is allowed to start movement after the passage of the operative-service vehicle with turned-on blue and red beacon lights. When moving as an organized transport column escorted by an operative-service vehicle with turned on blue and red beacon lights, it is allowed to start movement only after the passage of the operative-service vehicle with turned on blue beacon lights (the vehicle with identification sign “Column”) that closes the mentioned column.

• 27. Drivers are prohibited to perform overtaking and outpacing of operative-service vehicles with turned on blue or blue and red beacon lights, to move on adjacent traffic lanes with the same speed, and also to take place in the organized transport column or cross it.
• 28. When approaching a stationary operative-service vehicle with turned on:
• 28.1. blue beacon light, the driver must slow down its speed to be able to stop immediately, if necessary;
• 28.2. red beacon light, the driver must stop before reaching the operative-service vehicle. The movement may be continued only after the permission of the authorized official directing traffic or after the red beacon light is turned off.
• 29. To attract the attention of road-users, drivers of operative-service vehicles may give a special audible signal.
• 30. Drivers of road maintenance service's vehicles equipped with orange beacon lights, upon its turning on in the course of road works can depart from the requirements of traffic signs and road marking, as well as of sub-clause 9.8 of clause 9, clauses 78-80, 82 and sub-clauses 131.1-131.5 of clause 131 of these Rules, subject to ensuring the road traffic safety. Road-users must not obstruct their work.

  Beacon lights of orange colour installed on other vehicles and self-propelled machines give no advantage in traffic and serves to attract attention and alert road-users about possible danger.

• 31. The driver involved in a road accident is obliged:
• 31.1. to stop immediately and not to take actions to change the position of the vehicle involved in committing of the accident, to turn on hazard warning lights and to place a warning triangle in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 8 of these Rules, to remain on the site of the accident off the carriageway if possible;
• 31.2. to take measures to provide necessary assistance to the injured, to call the ambulance, and if it is impossible, to take measures on delivering the injured to the nearest healthcare organization in one or more passing vehicles (if not available, to deliver the injured on the vehicle involved in the road accident).

  The driver who brought the injured to a healthcare organization is obliged to report his name, registration plate of the vehicle by producing the driving permit or identity document and the certificate of registration of the vehicle (passport of the vehicle (vehicle's chassis)) and to return to the place of the road accident;

• 31.3. if necessary to deliver the injured to a healthcare organization in the vehicle involved in the road accident, to record previously in the presence of eyewitnesses the position of the vehicle, traces and objects relative to the road accident;
• 31.4. to write down names and addresses of witnesses of the road accident, to report the accident to the police and to await the arrival of SAI officials, with exception of the instance provided by part two of this sub-clause.

  In case of a road accident, the driver is entitled not to report it to SAI upon the presence of the following circumstances:

  — as a result of the road accident only property of its participants was damaged;

  — the road accident occurred with the participation of two vehicles;

  — persons who drove the vehicles have the right to drive a vehicle of the appropriate category;

  — in relation to the vehicles there are valid contracts of compulsory insurance of civil liability of their owners;

  — harm causing circumstances in connection with damage to property as a result of the road accident, nature and list of visible damages to vehicles do not provoke controversies of participants of this road accident and fixed in the notice about a road accident, the blank forms of which are filled in by the persons who drove the vehicles in accordance with the Regulations on Insurance Activities in the Republic of Belarus, approved by Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus of 25 August 2006 No. 530 “On Insurance Activity”;

  — persons who drove the vehicles do not present claims concerning the state of each other (the said persons are not in the state of alcohol intoxication or other state caused by consumption of narcotic substances, psychotropic and analogous substances, toxic or other intoxicating substances, no harm is caused to life or health as a result of the road accident);

  — harm inflicted to the property of each of the participants of the road accident is assessed by them in the amount of up to 200 Euro according to the official rate of Belarusian rouble to Euro established by the National Bank.

• 31.5. before the arrival of SAI officers, to take all possible measure on preserving traces and items related to the road accident, their enclosure and organization of bypassing of the place of the road accident.
• 32. Road-users involved in a road accident are prohibited to:
• 32.1. leave the place of the road accident, move the vehicle and items related to the road accident, except for the instances provided in sub-clause 31.3 and part two of sub-clause 31.4 of clause 31 of these Rules;
• 32.2. consume alcoholic or low-alcoholic beverages, beer, narcotic substances, psychotropic and analogous substances, toxic or other intoxicating substances prior to passing the inspection (examination) on alcohol intoxication or state caused by consumption of narcotic substances, psychotropic and analogous substances, toxic or other intoxicating substances;
• 32.3. open up the tachograph without a SAI official's permission.
• 33. Road accident participants not listed in clause 31 of these Rules, and its eyewitnesses are obliged to:
• 33.1. provide possible assistance to the injured;
• 33.2. write down surnames and addresses of other eyewitnesses of the road accident and also registration plates of vehicles present when the road accident has been committed;
• 33.3. report the road accident to the police;
• 33.4. wait, if possible, in the place of the road accident off the carriageway till the arrival of SAI officials, after that report the information about the road accident that they witnessed.
• 34. In case of detection or creation of an obstruction on the road that endangers the traffic the road-users are obliged to:
• 34.1. take measures on its eliminating;
• 34.2. when it is impossible to eliminate the obstruction, to mark it in accordance with these Rules or otherwise, ensuring the road traffic safety, after that to report the obstruction to the police or to road maintenance service or communal service.