Over the past 24 hours, 315 road accidents have occurred in Russia.

Over the past day, 315 road accidents were recorded on Russian roads, in which 33 people were killed and 373 injured. This was reported to Izvestia on August 5 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. 28 of the dead were drivers and passengers, the ministry said.

As a result of 73 accidents involving pedestrians, five people were killed, and another 27 were injured in various degrees of severity. Among the injured are 20 child pedestrians, three of whom were injured at pedestrian crossings. Of the total number of pedestrian incidents, 20 occurred at pedestrian crossings and 53 outside their area of operation.

There were 25 bus accidents on the roads of Russia, in which one person was killed, and 38 more road users, including one child, needed medical attention. The reason for 10 incidents were traffic violations committed by their drivers.

50 accidents involving minors were registered, 55 young road users were injured, including 21 passengers, 7 cyclists and 3 drivers. One child, a passenger in a passenger car, was killed.

In the Leningrad Region, a tourist bus driver with 38 passengers in the cabin drove to a railway crossing under a forbidding traffic light and collided with an electric freight train. As a result of the accident, one bus passenger was killed, nine passengers were hospitalized with injuries, and eight more passengers received one-time medical care. The bus driver explained that he was blinded by the sun, and he did not see either the "closed" crossing or the approaching train.

A similar accident occurred in the Belgorod region: the driver of a passenger car decided to skip a railway crossing at a forbidding traffic light, but collided with an electric locomotive. The motorist died.

In Kemerovo region, a passenger car driver ran over a truck parked on the side of the road. The culprit of the collision and four of his passengers were killed in the car, including a 13-year-old teenager who was in the back seat in the center without using a seat belt. The fifth passenger was injured and ended up in the hospital. It turned out that the passenger car had wheels with almost complete tread wear, in addition, its driver was transporting passengers in excess of the number provided for by the technical characteristics of the vehicle, which could affect its handling.

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 pass in front of a nearby train. 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, passengers on commuter trains and long-distance trains.

The traffic regulations explicitly prohibit access to 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, the State Traffic Inspectorate reminds.

Stopping or parking a vehicle at a railway crossing is also strictly prohibited, as it poses a real threat of collision with a train. If this happens in an emergency, for example, when a car breaks down, the driver must 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, the traffic police said.

"We remind motorists of the importance of following the rules of passage of railway crossings — this maneuver is considered dangerous and requires the driver to concentrate and pay maximum attention. For bus drivers, full concentration is doubly necessary when crossing railway tracks.: You transport people and are responsible for them before the law while they are in the vehicle you are driving," said 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.

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