There were 439 traffic accidents in Russia over the weekend
Over the past weekend, 439 traffic accidents were recorded on Russian roads, in which 82 people were killed and 605 injured. 68 of those killed were drivers and passengers of vehicles.
As a result of 79 accidents, 23 of which occurred at crosswalks and 56 outside their zone of action, 14 pedestrians were killed, 67 more were injured of varying severity. Among the injured pedestrians there were 11 children under the age of 16, four of whom were injured while crossing the roadway at a crosswalk.
There were 30 accidents involving buses, in which five people were killed and 48 other road users, including four children, were injured. The cause of 18 accidents involving buses was traffic violations committed by drivers of other vehicles. Thus, in Nizhny Novgorod region in the daytime on a regional highway, a woman driver of a passenger car drove into the oncoming lane, where she collided with a bus with 15 passengers. As a result of the accident, the driver of the collision and her passenger died.
The causes of 12 more accidents with buses were violations committed by their drivers. In Ivanovo, in the evening, the driver of a city bus carrying 10 passengers collided with another city bus with 14 passengers stopped ahead of him in the opposite direction at a traffic light before a regulated intersection. One passenger of the first bus and two schoolgirls born in 2009 and 2011 from the second bus were injured in the accident (hospitalized with injuries). Another girl-passenger born in 2009 in the bus of the perpetrator of the collision and three passengers in the second bus after medical care sent for outpatient treatment.
In Bashkiria in the late evening at 216 km of the federal highway R-240 "Ufa - Orenburg" the driver of an intercity bus carrying 10 passengers drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with a passenger car. The driver and a passenger of the oncoming car died in the accident.
With the participation of minors over the weekend, 73 accidents were registered, as a result of which 83 young road users were injured, including 68 passengers. Five children died: four passengers and one pedestrian. The cause of two of the three accidents with dead young passengers that occurred in different regions of the country over the weekend was the departure of their relatives-drivers of cars carrying children on the oncoming traffic lane. In the third incident, the death of a child was caused by a technical malfunction of the hitch of an unauthorized vehicle.
Thus, in the Kirov region, on a regional highway, a truck's trailer unhooked due to a technical malfunction of the hitch, which drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a passenger car moving in the opposite direction. The accident killed a girl born in 2023, who was in a child restraint device in the back seat of the passenger car and was wearing a seat belt. The driver and passenger of the passenger car were with injuries in the hospital.
In addition, in the Bryansk region on a regional highway the driver of a passenger car hit a nine-year-old girl pedestrian, who was unaccompanied by adults and suddenly for the motorist ran out under his wheels because of the bus stopped to drop off passengers. The schoolgirl died.
"We draw the attention of parents to the need for constant control over the winter leisure of their underage children at weekends. Do not leave them unattended, try to personally accompany them to additional classes, to developmental "circles" or sports sections, and then back - home or visiting. Especially be attentive to the safety of young pedestrians during their riding from snow slides, especially if such winter fun takes place in the evening, and the slides are located near the roadway. It is also recommended to equip children's clothes with retroreflective elements to make them more visible to drivers in the dark or dusk", - said "Izvestia" deputy head of the department of road safety propaganda and prevention of child traffic injuries of the State Automobile Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, police colonel Anton Belan.
The State Automobile Inspectorate reminded parents that lack of control over the behavior and leisure of children, especially in the evening, often leads to injury or death of young road users. According to operational data, for two weeks of February in the Russian Federation there were 470 traffic accidents involving minors, in which 516 children were injured and 16 died.
February 14, it was reported that fines for traffic violations account for almost a fifth of all debts of Russians. This was reported by the Director of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) Dmitry Aristov. Thus, by the volume of enforcement proceedings under enforcement, as of January 1, 2025, fines from the traffic police are in second place.
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