Consequences of a breach of duties by participants in highway traffic

Resumé This thesis deals with legal consequence of road users who violate their duties in road traffic. Intensity of road traffic permanently increases. Almost everyone participates in the road traffic day by day. Among the participants occur many dangerous and egoistic individuals, who do not observe the road traffic regulations. Theirs irresponsible behaviour often results in car accidents and damage to person and property. One of means to improvement of the road safety is efficient punishment of driving offences. I have divided my thesis into introduction, five chapters and conclusion. The introduction briefly introduces the problematic. In the second chapter I have paid attention to definition of terms "road user", "duties of road users in traffic" and "legal consequence of violation the duty". In the third chapter I have dealed with driving offences. Offence is one of the administrative torts, which is defined by Offence Act no. 200/1990 Coll. It is unlawful action which violates or endangers protected interests of society. Driving offences violate or endanger safety and fluency of the road traffic. Merits of the driving offences are defined not only by Road Safety Act no. 361/2000 Coll, but also by Act no. 13/1997 Coll. and Act no.56/2001 Coll. Second chapter consist of four part. In firts part I have..