CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL PREVENTION OF ROAD TRAFFIC INJURY

The article, based on the analysis of current legislation, available scientific, journalistic and methodological sources, including foreign experience, clarifies the essence, meaning and content of the principles of administrative and legal prevention of road traffic injuries as important regulators of road safety in the country. The characteristic of prevention of road traffic injuries which is offered to consider, first, as an important means of social regulation of road legal relations is carried out; secondly, as a system of social, economic, ideological, organizational and legal and psychological and pedagogical measures; third, as a combination of different levels of prevention activities carried out by general and special actors. The goals of road traffic injury prevention are to achieve and maintain the trend of reducing accidents, a positive change in its nature and structure. The concept of administrative and legal prevention of road traffic injuries as a methodologically complex social phenomenon, which covers a multilevel system of administrative and legal measures carried out by public authorities, local governments and individual civil society institutions through the use of delegated powers to identify the causes and conditions of administrative torts on road transport, which lead to road traffic injuries, to minimize or neutralize the impact of acts that give rise to such offenses, search for ways, means of effective influence on potential factors that determine road accidents. Emphasis is placed on the importance of principles as fundamental, guiding principles (requirements) of any important public-law activity, expressing the most significant aspects (manifestations) of implementation of measures of administrative and legal prevention of road traffic injuries and acting as official guidelines in the practice of counteracting administrative "road" torts.