Principles of administrative and legal support for road safety

The article examines the principles of administrative and legal support for road safety based on a comprehensive systematic approach. The relevance of the topic is determined by objective and subjective factors caused by the technological development of motor transport. The object of the study is social relations in the field of road safety. The subject is formed by normative and legal acts and practices of road safety. The methodological basis is general and specific scientific methods of cognition of objective reality: comparative-legal, logical-legal, formal-logical, and systemic-structural methods. It is substantiated that administrative and legal support for road safety is a continuous process of influencing social relations in the field of road traffic through legal forms, means, and methods of authorized executive bodies with the aim of regulating them, protecting the life, health, and property of citizens, protecting their rights and legitimate interests, as well as protecting the interests of society and the state. The principles of administrative and legal support for road safety serve as a guideline for the application of legal norms regulating social relations in the field of road safety. It is noted that the principles of administrative and legal support for road safety are divided into general principles and special principles. In methodological terms, the principles on which the formation of the relevant regulatory and legal framework and the adjustment of the management system in the field of road safety should be based are: the primacy of taking into account the interests of road users in the process of ensuring road safety; the mandatory use of uniform categories and concepts in the regulatory and legal regulation of road safety; continuity and phased creation and modernization of administrative and legal institutions for road safety; minimization of legal uncertainties and gaps; expediency of developing and implementing uniform target programs to combat traffic offenses. This will make it possible to improve the effectiveness of legal regulation.