Perdavimas vairuoti transporto priemonę neblaiviam asmeniui: atsakomybė ir jos taikymas Lietuvos teismų praktikoje
The Transfer of a Road Vehicle for Drive to a Person Under the Influence of Alcohol: Liability and Its Application in the Lithuanian Case-Law

Summary/Abstract: The participation of drunk drivers in the road traffic and accidents caused by them is one of the major road traffic safety problems in Lithuania. A part of the drunk drivers are such who were given to drive by others. On this account in this article for the scientific analysis the topic of prohibition to entrust a vehicle to a person under the influence of alcohol and liability for the infringement thereof has been picked.In the article, while also invoking the analysis of the Lithuanian case-law, the Paragraph 6 of Article 126 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Lithuania is analysed in detail. It is also raised a question (and also searched for the answer to it) whether the administrative penalty foreseen in the sanction of the Article mentioned above is proportional to the dangerousness of the administrative offence under analysis.It is come to a conclusion that as a transfer of a road vehicle to a person under the influence of alcohol shall be understood any act of the culprit because of which a vehicle ends at the temporary disposal of the drunk person. In this context, it is necessary to determine that the culprit, while acting so, had a purpose a vehicle to enter into the temporary disposal of the person mentioned above.To be liable for the transfer of a road vehicle to a person under the influence of alcohol shall be held the owner (possessor) of the road vehicle, i. e. persons who, under the law, hold a general duty of care. Therefore the provision, not allowing entrusting a road vehicle to a person under the influence of alcohol, in appropriate legal acts shall be foreseen among provisions applicable to owners and possessors of the road vehicles (but not drivers thereof).At the end of the article it is arrived at a conclusion that the administrative penalty foreseen in the sanction of the Paragraph 6 of the Article 126 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Lithuania (a fine of EUR 86–144) does not correspond to the dangerousness of the administrative offence under discussion (is too lenient) and therefore shall be made more severe in the future. It is thought that due to the role of the culprit in the drunk driving the liability for the transfer of a road vehicle for drive to a person under the influence of alcohol shall be likewise (if not the same) as the liability provided for the drunk driving itself.

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