In the period between November 1 and March 31 inclusive, motorists are obliged to travel with the headlights on during the day too, as the Road Traffic Regulations provide. The move is aimed at reducing road accident owing to the unstable weather accompanied by rain, fog and other meteorological conditions that significantly reduce visibility in traffic, the National Public Security Inspectorate has said.

The Inspectorate called on motor vehicle drivers to adjust the speed to the weather and road conditions and to keep a longer distance between vehicles.

The Inspectorate’s press officer Ana Chiselița has told IPN that the Road Traffic Regulations do not stipulate when the motorists should start to use winter tires. The drivers should find out the probable weather and should outfit beforehand the vehicles with mud and snow or snow tires.

“The drivers who do not use winter tires when the weather conditions and the road conditions require using such tires are fined 150 to 300 lei without penalty points,” stated Ana Chiselița.

On the other hand, the Contravention Code provides that private individuals are fined 900 to 1,500 lei, while legal entities – 4,500 to 6,000 lei if the used motor vehicles are outfitted with tracks or tires with crampons on asphalt roads when there is no snow, ice or glazed frosts on the road, except for cases when there is an essential difference in the meteorological conditions all over Moldova.