Our climatic features can turn the favorite car into a real bunch of dirt, even when traveling to the city, and if you drove on country roads, it is clear that it is impossible to read the car on the car. And according to our law, the unreadable numbers will entail the traffic police stop by the traffic police inspector if it meets on your path. And you will have to part with 500 rubles, since it is this amount that is prescribed in the form of a fine for dirty rooms. But you understand that your guilt is no, bad weather hid your rooms. Moreover, in some situations and traffic police goes to fraud, some inspectors frankly extort to be fulfilled, car enthusiasts should know in detail about violation in the form of unreadable signs and on punishment for such a violation.

Unreadable numbers. What does the law say?

The law states that the car number does not comply with the standards, if in numbers or letters you cannot distinguish at least one sign from a distance of 20 meters.

At night, only the rear number is lit, so the inspector may make a claim to the appearance of the rear room.

During the daytime, the traffic police representative has the right to write a penalty for a unreadable number as anterior plate and rear.

In this case, the violation, it is dirt on black characters, i.e. Dirt on numbers and letters.

Dirt white part The sign does not affect readability from a distance of 20 meters. But if the digit or letter is dirty, you can assign a fine for it. GOST RF R 50577-93 determines the appearance of the registration numbers that are installed on the car.

The rules say that a person who manages the vehicle (driver) is responsible for the purity of license plates at any situation.

Paragraph 2.3.1. Rules says that before starting the movement it is necessary to bring the car to the proper condition.

Unreadable numbers. The traffic police inspector stopped for it, your actions

If you stopped on the road with a claim for unreadable numbers, please contact the inspector respectfully, talk benevolently and in no way threaten the inspector.

Quietly ask if there is a photo or video of the proof, which is captured in the movement of your car with dirty numbers.

If the inspector responds in the affirmative, let it present these materials if there are materials, you will have to accept the accusation.

And if there is no evidence, remove the dirt and the snapped snow from your car's number.

If the inspector does not have evidence, he has no right to delay you, since he does not have any evidence and give them to the court, he will not be able to. By the way, clean the numbers you will have to have a photo and video records of your violation.

And in this case, when drawing up a protocol for the unreadable numbers by the traffic police inspector, it is impossible to repair the obstacles, as it enters the law.

You just can remind him that item 2.9 Administrative Code allows you to make an oral warning if the violation in the form of unreadable numbers did not cause any serious consequences.

But if your moans did not have success, you will write a fine and you must pay it.

The inspector can threaten the fine and with the absence of evidence.

In this case, wipe the license plates and make photos of these signs, it is desirable that the inspector itself gets into the frame.

If your phone or video recorder has a function of manufacturing a photo with the specified time and the GPS coordinates, the option.

In the protocol, sign that there was no violation, you disagree, and if the court will present your evidence.

Sometimes, a particularly zealous inspector, stopping the car with completely closed mud or snow by numbers, can be threatened with a fine for the lack of license plates, such a fine will cost at least 5,000 rubles and you can even temporarily deprive rights.

In this case, do not be nervous, calmly clean the numbers and ask the inspector to fix the fact of the availability of license plates, make several photos yourself if the protocol is drawn up, check availability of rooms and agree with a fine of 500 rubles.

Unreadable numbers. How to clean the number so as not to damage it

The traffic police inspector, according to the law, can delay the car until the number in the right state.

Here you will have to ask the question than to clean the numbers.

If you are not a neat driver and the numbers of your car in such a dirty state constantly, and the road dirt is an abrasive material, you will have to sweat.

In winter, you can wipe the numbers in the snow, and in the summer, it is desirable to have special wet wipes with you, they will help carefully clean the surface of the numbers.

If there is no napkin, use a conventional dry rag or paper.

If your manipulations led to damage to the surface of the number, you will have to urgently contact the MRO, write a statement and get a duplicate.