The government of Rosen Zhelyazkov will consider 37 road safety measures. The point is to prevent a violation. Visible police control is much more effective than secret one.
Instead of the state thinking about how to prevent traffic accidents, after every serious incident it thinks about how to punish the perpetrators more severely.
This was recalled to the Bulgarian National Radio by lawyer Silvia Petkova, a criminal law specialist.
If the state does not have enough money to maintain critical areas, at least there can be a visible police presence there for prevention.
The Ministry of Justice is proposing changes regarding experts.
Incompetent experts meet in the courtroom, whose expertise is refuted by their colleagues. There is a lack of experts in some fields of science. Traffic accident cases are delayed due to the lack of experts. The few experts working on all cases in the country are overloaded – this picture was outlined by Petkova.
The number of experts working on expert opinions concerning transport crimes should be increased. They can come from universities and scientific institutes, she pointed out.
Expert opinions are appointed immediately after the incident. If there is an expert, he or she starts working immediately after the incident, the specialist specified.
On the topic of remuneration, lawyer Petkova said that it happens that they are not paid for months, even years, and moreover, they are low.
"There is an option for the expert to refuse - a common hypothesis in cases where there are not enough experts in the specific field."
The Criminal Procedure Code now also provides for the possibility of videoconference questioning of an expert, said Silvia Petkova in the program "Predi visci". According to her, even in small settlements, it is not a problem to conduct such an interrogation remotely.
The term "forensic road expertise", which is among the proposals for changes, probably refers to an examination of the road section, with the idea of seeing whether its condition has a particular influence on the occurrence of road accidents, believes lawyer Petkova.