There were 630 road accidents in Russia over the weekend.
Over the past weekend, 630 road accidents occurred on Russian roads, in which 87 people were killed and 753 injured. 79 of the dead were passengers and drivers. This was reported to Izvestia on June 30 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
So, in the Stavropol Territory, late in the evening on a regional highway, a 38-year-old crossover driver drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with another passenger car. As a result of the accident, the driver and three passengers of the second car, as well as one of the passengers of the crossover, were killed, the culprit of the collision and his second passenger were injured in the hospital. Among the dead passengers is a fourteen—year-old schoolgirl who was in the back seat of the second car.
20 accidents involving buses were recorded, in which there were no fatalities, but 13 road users needed medical help. Seven bus accidents were caused by traffic violations committed by their drivers.
As a result of 117 accidents, 33 of which occurred at pedestrian crossings and 84 outside their area of operation, 113 pedestrians, including 33 children, were injured in various degrees of severity, 22 of them were injured when crossing the roadway outside the designated places.
In the evening, in the city of Odintsovo, Moscow region, a 41-year-old taxi driver ran over an eight-year-old pedestrian boy who suddenly ran out from behind a parked car while driving through a courtyard. The child, who was unaccompanied on the street, died.
The State Traffic Inspectorate urged drivers to comply with traffic regulations and be more careful on the roads of towns and cities in the summer. Children's behavior on the road is often unpredictable, so special care should be taken when driving through courtyards and parking lots near shops.
Parents of underage road users were reminded of the need to be more attentive to preschool children. It is important to control their leisure time, not to let them walk alone without supervision. Retroreflective elements should be used on their clothes to improve visibility in the evening.
Also over the weekend, 116 accidents involving minors were registered, in which 124 young road users were injured, including 51 passengers, 12 cyclists and 21 motor transport drivers. Eight children were killed, five of whom were passengers in passenger cars, three more were pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
So, in one of the villages of the Irkutsk region, a 56-year-old minibus driver in the rain, when turning left at an unregulated intersection, did not provide an advantage in traffic and collided with a sports motorcycle moving towards him, driven by a fifteen-year-old schoolboy in a motorcycle helmet, but without a driver's license. The teenager died.
The State Traffic Inspectorate called on parents to strictly monitor and stop attempts by children and teenagers to get behind the wheel on their own during the long summer holidays, as well as to exclude access to the keys of cars, mopeds and motorcycles, prohibiting driving without rights and skills. The parents' attention was drawn to the administrative responsibility in the amount of 30 thousand rubles for transferring the right to drive cars and motor vehicles to children who do not have a driver's license of the appropriate category.
Mopeds and motorcycles on public roads can be driven no earlier than the age of 16. Cross—country motorcycles and pitbikes should only be used on specialized tracks and only for sporting purposes, including for young athletes. It is strictly forbidden to use them on ordinary roads and in populated areas.
In the Volgograd region, in the evening, on 752 km of the federal highway R-22 Kaspiy, a 42-year-old truck driver skidded a trailer at the end of overtaking in a prohibited place, he found himself in the oncoming lane and collided with a passenger car driven by a 61-year-old motorist moving in the opposite direction. After the impact, the car was thrown into the oncoming lane, where it collided with a second truck.
As a result of an accident in a passenger car, the driver's grandson and granddaughter were killed — a nine-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl who were in the back seat with their seat belts fastened. Another passenger in the car was injured and, after receiving medical treatment, was sent for outpatient treatment. Previously, the cause of the incident was a violation of the rules of overtaking by the driver of the first truck.
"We urge truck drivers to strictly observe the rules of the road and driving discipline. If you are driving a truck, correctly assess its inertia depending on speed and load, its dimensions, condition and width of the roadway, terrain and the possibility of skidding. Avoid risky maneuvers. Do not create accidents on the road. Remember that not only your own life and health are in your hands, but also the lives of other road users," said Police Colonel Sergei Hrantskevich, head of the Department for Road Safety Promotion and Prevention of child traffic injuries at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
On June 16, it was reported that the number of people killed in road accidents in Russia has decreased with an increase in the number of accidents. So, from January to May 2025, 44.4 thousand deaths occurred in Russia. Accidents with deaths or injuries, which is 0.7% more than in the same period last year. The number of dead in them amounted to 4.6 thousand people (-1.9%), and the wounded — 55.7 thousand people (+0.5%).
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