Over the past 24 hours, 197 road accidents have occurred in Russia.
Over the past day, 197 road accidents were recorded on Russian roads, in which 15 people were killed and 288 injured, 14 of the dead were drivers and passengers. This was reported to Izvestia on March 18 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
As a result of 65 car accidents involving pedestrians, one person was killed and 60 others were injured. Among the injured are seven child pedestrians, three of whom were injured at pedestrian crossings. Of the total number of pedestrian incidents, 32 occurred at pedestrian crossings and 27 outside their area of operation. 23 accidents involving minors were registered, in which 27 young road users, including 19 passengers, were injured. There are no dead children, the traffic police clarified.
The State Traffic Inspectorate said that over the past 24 hours, 21 bus accidents occurred in the country, in which two people died (both victims were bus drivers) Another 52 road users, including nine child passengers, required medical attention. The reason for the 10 incidents were traffic violations committed by drivers of other vehicles, the department said.
In the Kaluga Region, on 16 km of the Belousovo — Vysokinichi — Serpukhov highway, a passenger car driver overook into the oncoming lane, where he collided with a bus carrying 16 passengers. After the collision, the bus left the road and overturned. The bus driver was killed in the accident, five of his passengers and the passenger of the "passenger car" were injured and ended up in the hospital. Six more passengers on the bus, including an 11-year-old boy, were sent for outpatient treatment after receiving medical treatment.
The incident also seems to have occurred in Dagestan on 773 km of the federal highway R-217 Kavkaz. Here, a passenger car driver, overtaking a passing truck on the right, collided with it. Then the car drove into the oncoming lane, where it crashed into an intercity bus carrying 14 passengers. The bus overturned on impact and crashed into a crossover. The bus driver was killed in this accident, and five of his passengers were hospitalized with injuries. The driver of the crossover and nine other passengers on the bus, including a 12-year-old schoolboy, were sent for outpatient treatment.
The third bus accident in the past 24 hours occurred in the city of Alexandrov (Vladimir region). At an unregulated intersection, the driver of a car drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with a city shuttle bus carrying 10 passengers. As a result of the accident, the culprit was hospitalized, and eight bus passengers, five of whom were schoolchildren aged 11 to 15, were sent for outpatient treatment.
In addition, the second incident in two days occurred at a railway crossing, this time in the Stavropol Territory. The driver of the car drove onto the railway crossing at a forbidding traffic light and collided with a rail bus. The motorist died.
An analysis of accidents at railway crossings shows that such accidents most often occur at unregulated crossings, where drivers, not convinced of the safety of the maneuver, try to drive in front of a nearby train, the State Traffic Inspectorate notes. Trying to gain a few seconds of travel, they often endanger not only their own lives, but also the lives and health of their own passengers, railway staff, and train passengers, the department notes. Compliance with the rules for preventing railway crossings and cranes is important, since this maneuver is considered dangerous and requires the driver to concentrate and pay maximum attention, the Traffic Police remind.
"In the traffic regulations there is a direct ban on leaving the railway tracks outside the crossing. The maneuver is impossible when the barrier is closed or closing, or when the traffic light or crossing attendant is forbidding. A driver moving through a railway crossing should be extremely careful at night, as well as in adverse weather conditions and limited visibility," Police Colonel Anton Belan, Deputy head of the Department for Road Safety Promotion and Prevention of Child Traffic Injuries at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, emphasized in an interview with Izvestia.
He recalled that according to the traffic regulations, stopping or parking a vehicle at a railway crossing is also strictly prohibited. If this happens in an emergency, for example, when a car breaks down, the driver is obliged to immediately disembark people from the vehicle, remove them to a safe distance and take measures to free the crossing — tow or push the car off the rails, Belan noted.
On March 14, it was reported that a group of 97 State Duma deputies appealed to the Constitutional Court against the amendments to the Administrative Code, which increased fines for widespread traffic violations by 1.5–2 times from January 1, 2025, and reduced the discount for prompt payment of resolutions from 50 to 25%.
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