There have been 229 road accidents in Russia over the past 24 hours.
Over the past day, 229 road accidents have occurred on Russian roads, in which 21 people were killed and 283 injured. 16 of the dead were passengers and drivers. This was reported to Izvestia on April 21 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
As a result of 69 accidents involving pedestrians, 28 of which occurred at pedestrian crossings and 41 outside their area of operation, five pedestrians were killed, and 65 more were injured in various degrees of severity. Among the injured were 16 child pedestrians, nine of whom were injured when crossing the roadway in unintended places.
28 accidents involving minors were registered, in which 30 young road users were injured, including 10 passengers and one motor vehicle driver. There are no dead children. 12 accidents involving buses were recorded, in which one person was killed, and another 27 road users, including one child, required medical assistance. Eight bus accidents were caused by traffic violations committed by drivers of other vehicles.
So, in the Leningrad region, in the early morning on 98 km of the federal highway A-120 "St. Petersburg Southern Half-ring", a 27-year-old truck driver was distracted from driving for a few seconds by a mobile phone call and ran over a bus with 11 passengers in the passenger compartment, a crossover, standing in the opposite direction to him at a forbidding traffic light. a truck and another passenger car. As a result of the incident, three passengers of the bus were hospitalized with injuries, and its 43-year-old driver and eight other passengers were sent for outpatient treatment after receiving medical care.
In Khabarovsk, a 33-year-old driver of a city shuttle bus carrying 10 passengers also became distracted from driving and ran over a city lighting mast. Five bus passengers were injured in the accident, and after receiving medical treatment, they were sent for outpatient treatment.
In addition, in St. Petersburg in the morning, a 44-year-old tram driver with 11 passengers in the cabin collided with another tram of the same route carrying 15 passengers, which at the time of the incident was traveling in the opposite direction at a forbidding traffic light. The culprit of the collision, two of his passengers, as well as three passengers of the second tram ended up in the hospital.
"The State Traffic Inspectorate recommends that drivers of fixed-route transport not overestimate their strength and closely monitor their health. Be sure to alternate between work and rest, always leaving the flight well rested, without the slightest signs of fatigue or malaise. Be careful and careful on the route, never get distracted from driving, keep a safe distance between vehicles, which will allow you to respond in a timely and adequate manner to a possible sudden change in the road situation. Remember that the lives and health of the passengers you transport depend on your skills, driving experience, well—being, and driving discipline," said Police Colonel Sergey Hrantskevich, head of the Department for Road Safety Promotion and Prevention of Child traffic Injuries at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
Earlier, on April 16, it was reported that by the end of 2025, the number of automatic cameras for recording traffic violations in Russia increased by about 500 units due to an increase in the number of stationary and mobile complexes, including tablets for recording parking violations. At the end of 2025, the number of cameras reached 32.5 thousand units.
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