There were 501 traffic accidents in Russia over the weekend

Last weekend, 501 accidents were recorded on Russian roads, in which 72 people were killed and 679 injured. 17 of the dead were pedestrians, the other 55 were drivers and passengers. This was reported to "Izvestia" on Monday, December 2, in the State Automobile Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

With the participation of buses on the roads of Russia recorded 22 accidents, in which one person was killed, another 29 road users were injured. The cause of seven accidents with buses were violations of traffic rules committed by their drivers.

As a result of 129 accidents, 49 of which occurred at crosswalks and 80 outside their zone of action, 17 pedestrians were killed, 118 more were injured of varying severity. Among the injured pedestrians there were 21 children under the age of 16.

The problem of driving a car while intoxicated remains topical, the agency said. Over the past weekend in Russia there were 28 accidents involving drunk drivers and 14 more accidents in which drivers refused medical examination. In such accidents five people died, 68 more were injured.

With the participation of minors, 62 accidents were registered in which 72 young road users were injured, including 48 passengers and two drivers of motorized vehicles. Three children died, two of whom were transported as passengers and one was a moped driver. Thus, in the Kursk region at night on a regional highway a 12-year-old schoolboy without a driver's license and a motorcycle helmet failed to cope with the control and fell on the roadway. The boy died.

In one of the villages of the Lipetsk region in the evening a 16-year-old driver of a passenger car drove off the road and crashed into a high voltage line support, after which the car overturned. The driver's license was not previously issued to the perpetrator of the accident. As a result of the accident, his 15-year-old female passenger, who was next to him in the front seat without using a seat belt, died. The young driver himself and two other passengers of the car, including a schoolgirl, the same age as the deceased, were injured and hospitalized. At the time of the accident, the injured teenage girl was in the back seat and was not wearing a seat belt.

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In addition, on a regional highway in the Nizhny Novgorod region at night, a 16-year-old driver without a license and with signs of alcohol intoxication failed to control a carshare car, which was rented under the account of one of the passengers. The car veered off the road and overturned. The accident killed the driver's peer, who was in the back seat and was not wearing a seatbelt. The driver himself and five other passengers, two of them 15-year-old schoolgirls, were hospitalized with injuries. The girls injured in the accident were being transported in the back seat in the middle and were not buckled up.

"We urge parents to strictly control and suppress attempts of children and teenagers to get behind the wheel on their own, as well as to exclude the possibility for them to access the keys of cars, mopeds and motorcycles, prohibiting the management of auto and motorized vehicles without the appropriate right and driving skills, especially since currently the motorcycle season is already over until next spring. "It is doubly unacceptable that such a driver transports passengers, including minors," Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of the State Automobile Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Colonel Anton Belan, told Izvestia.

Lack of control over the behavior and leisure of children in the evening often leads to injuries or death of young road users, the agency stressed. According to operational data, in November in the Russian Federation in 1145 road accidents involving minors killed 37 children, 1248 more were injured. The traffic police also drew the attention of parents to the administrative responsibility for providing the opportunity to drive motorcycles to children who do not have a driver's license of the appropriate category.

November 26, the State Duma passed the first reading of the bill to introduce a fine of up to Br5 thousand for repeated driving without a MTPL policy. Now the fine under Part 1 of Article 12.37 of the Administrative Code ("Driving during the period not provided for by the policy, or transferring control to a driver not included in the contract") is Br500 and Br800 under Part 2 of the same article ("Driving without a valid policy").