Administrative responsibility in the mechanism of prevention of traffic safety

Ensuring road safety in Russia remains an urgent problem, despite a number of government decisions in this area. The mechanical increase in penalties for violation of traffic rules is not a solution to the problem, since for a number of permanent offenders it does not fulfill either a preventive function or a punitive one. In foreign practice, a differentiated approach has been used for a long time, the essence of which is that the amount of the fine depends on the official income of the offender. The article provides convincing arguments for this approach and its relevance in Russian practice as one of the aspects of a comprehensive solution to the problem of ensuring road safety.