Russia’s Roads Are More Dangerous than the Roads of Europe

Russia’s Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev unveiled yesterday alarming statistics of deaths caused by the traffic accidents in the country. Of all European states, Russia has the highest rate of traffic accident mortality per each 100,000 residents.

More than 200,000 traffic accidents that kill 32,000 to 35,000 and injure roughly 285,000 are annually recorded on Russia’s roads, showed the statistics of the RF Interior Ministry. Some 70 percent of all traffic deaths happen right on the site or en route to the hospital.
To the greatest extent, the outcome depends on the first aid’s efficiency,the minister specified.

The number of traffic accidents with particularly heavy aftereffects that happen through the fault of drunk drivers has declined this year, the minister said. The second good news is the reduction in accidents caused by pedestrians and children. At the same time, Nurgaliev went on, the extent of traffic accidents on Russia’s roads is very high and solving the problem calls for the system approach and the gradual build-up of efforts.

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