Scientific paper ID 767 : 2013/1

In relation to the road traffic participants the concept of safety is definitely connected with the protection of their constitutional rights to life, health protection and safe working conditions. Taking into consideration the extremely high level of the road traffic accidents in Russia we are not going to dispute on the social significance of these rights protection. We are interested in the following: if these rights are enough to cover life-critical interests of citizens when the question is of their participation in the road traffic. In a wider interpretation road traffic presents one of the ways of covering public necessities for the spatial movement of people as well as items, means and products of their labour. We suggest expanding the concept of road traffic and using the term "sphere of road traffic" instead of "road traffic".

Therefore, safety in the sphere of road traffic will represent a social legal category, formed as the result of compliance and enforcement of legal norms, and the system of public relations.