Over the past 24 hours, 273 road accidents have occurred in Russia.

Over the past day, 273 road accidents were recorded on Russian roads, in which 24 people were killed, and 321 more citizens were injured. This was reported to Izvestia on April 17 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Among the dead, 19 people were drivers and passengers of vehicles, the ministry said.

As a result of 90 car accidents, 33 of which occurred at pedestrian crossings and 57 outside their area of operation, five pedestrians were killed, and 87 more were injured in various degrees of severity. Among the injured were 22 minors under the age of 16, half of whom were injured while crossing the roadway at a pedestrian crossing.

Over the past day, 17 accidents involving buses have been registered. There were no fatalities in such incidents, but 26 road users, including four children, needed medical attention. Eight bus accidents were caused by traffic violations committed by their drivers.

In addition, according to the ministry, 47 accidents involving minors occurred in the country, as a result of which two children (a passenger and a pedestrian) were killed and 48 young road users were injured, 13 of them were passengers, six were cyclists and six were motor transport drivers.

In Saratov, a 32-year-old Gazelle driver, while reversing on the territory of a private household, ran over a two-year-old girl who was unaccompanied in the yard. As a result of the accident, the child died.

In the Orenburg region, late in the evening, on 11 km of the Orsk — Border with the Republic of Bashkortostan regional road, a 20-year-old car driver drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with another passenger car. As a result of the accident, the culprit of the car accident and his two passengers, including a 13-year-old schoolgirl who was in the back seat without using a seat belt, died. The driver and passenger of the oncoming car were hospitalized with injuries.

The deceased young man had not previously been issued a driver's license, presumably he was driving under the influence of alcohol.

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The State Traffic Inspectorate reminds motorists about the inadmissibility of driving a vehicle without completing training at a driving school, successfully passing exams and obtaining a driver's license of the appropriate category.

The department also urges road users not to remain indifferent to the problem of drunkenness at the wheel and to report to the police about drivers who behave inappropriately on the road. Traffic police officers are ready to take all necessary operational measures to respond to such reports.

"We strongly recommend that drivers be especially collected and careful when driving through courtyards and maneuvering on them. In such places, there is a high probability of unexpected appearance of underage pedestrians or cyclists due to parked vehicles blocking the view of a maneuvering motorist. In turn, parents need to constantly monitor the behavior of their young children, not leaving them unattended, even next to themselves," 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, told Izvestia.

He also reminded parents of the need to monitor children's use of retroreflective elements, including on outerwear. They make young pedestrians and cyclists visible to drivers of vehicles on the road, Belan stressed.

Earlier it became known that two people were killed and three were injured in an accident in Chuvashia. According to preliminary data, the 20-year-old Lada Granta driver, without a driver's license, drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a VAZ-2107 car, after which he crashed into a pole.