Some questions of the practice of application of art. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Introduction: the article deals with issues related to the implementation of criminal law on liability for road safety and vehicle operation crimes. Materials and Methods: during the study, a set of dialectical research methods was used, including comparative, hermeneutic, discursive, formal legal methods, as well as some sociological methods: observation; methods of expert assessments and analysis. The method of analysis was used in the study of regulatory documents and materials of judicial statistics. Results: on the basis of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the practice of applying Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is sufficiently debatable, for example, one of the controversial issues is the sentencing of persons who have committed a crime while intoxicated. One of the proposals to improve the sanctions of this article is the introduction of an additional penalty in the form of deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities. Discussion and Conclusions: the article carried out a comprehensive analysis of the relevant criminal law in the field of road safety and vehicle operation, as well as proposed the author’s solution to the problem aspects.