There have been 355 road accidents in Russia over the past 24 hours.

Over the past day, 335 road accidents were recorded on Russian roads, in which 26 people were killed and 377 injured. 24 of the dead were drivers and passengers. This was reported to Izvestia on August 11 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

20 bus accidents were recorded, in which one person was killed, and 23 more road users needed medical help. The reason for 13 bus accidents were traffic violations committed by drivers of other vehicles.

As a result of 77 accidents involving pedestrians, two people were killed, and 76 more were injured in various degrees of severity. Among the injured are 15 child pedestrians, seven of them were injured when crossing the roadway in unintended places. Of the total number of pedestrian incidents, 38 occurred at pedestrian crossings and 39 outside their area of operation. 54 accidents involving minors were also registered, 55 young road users were injured in them, including 17 passengers and nine motor transport drivers. There are no dead children.

The State Traffic Inspectorate urged drivers to strictly observe traffic regulations and be more careful on the roads of settlements and cities, especially when passing intersections and pedestrian crossings. When stopping in front of an adjustable pedestrian crosswalk, you should not rush to start moving even when the traffic light is clear — first you need to make sure that the crossing is completely free from pedestrian traffic. The behavior of children and elderly pedestrians on the road is often unpredictable, so at any moment you need to be prepared to respond adequately to a sudden change in the traffic situation.

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Parents of underage road users were reminded of the need to be more attentive to their children, trying to ensure maximum safety for them during the long summer holidays. It is necessary to use retroreflective elements on their clothes to improve visibility to drivers on the road in the morning and evening. It is important to have an explanatory conversation with children about the rules of safe passage through the roadway, emphasizing the need to exclude telephone conversations, listening to music in headphones, chatting on the go in Internet chats and other distracting factors for pedestrians, the department said.

"Remember that even a short absence or the slightest negligence of parental control over the behavior and leisure of children often leads to injury or death of young road users. According to the operational data of the State Traffic Inspectorate, in the first decade of August 2026, 699 road accidents involving children occurred in the Russian Federation, in which 11 minors under the age of 16 were killed and 782 injured," said Police Colonel Sergei, head of the Department for Road Safety Promotion and prevention of child traffic injuries at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Hrantskevich.

Earlier, information began to spread in the media and social networks that allegedly from August 1, car inspectors would begin checking drivers for paper forms of the European protocol. These reports are not true, the Russian State Traffic Inspectorate said.