PERSONAL MOBILITY EQUIPMENT AS A SOURCE OF INCREASED DANGER IN THE MECHANISM OF A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

Abstract

The increasing variety of vehicles used by the general population for travelling on public roads and territories makes it necessary to individualize and standardize a number of organizational and technical aspects of their operation. In particular, regulations on the use of personal mobility equipment, which is in high demand, especially among young people, require special attention. Every year, with the advent of spring and summer period the number of road accidents committed by persons driving these types of vehicles increases. The purpose of the article is to consider territorial and temporal, subjective and other elements of the criminalistic characteristics of crimes in which personal mobility equipment as a source of increased danger acted as instruments of unlawful activity. The study applies the universal dialectical method, as well as methods of situational and system-structural analysis, when examining the forensic practice of the crimes in question. As a result, the article highlights the correlations between several elements of the criminalistic characteristic of crimes committed using personal mobility equipment. The study of the information and analytical data of the traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, as well as information provided by sharing companies, leads t o the conclusion on the ag e and territorial and temporal circumstances of the mechanism of traffic accidents committed using personal mobilit y equipment .

Keywords

• personal mobility equipment
• traffic accident
• electric scooter
• kicksharing