In Russia, a marked increase in accidents on railway crossings

12 April 2018

To struggle with infringers it is planned to increase the fine

According to the findings of the scientific center of road safety of the MIA of Russia, the overall situation on the roads is gradually improving from year to year reduced the accident rate and the number of victims of road accidents, though not as fast as desired. At the same time marked increase in accidents of some categories. For example, in 2017 the situation with accident rate due to visiting drivers. Basically we are talking about citizens of CIS countries. Another reason for pessimism have become accidents at level crossings.

In total for 2017 in the traffic police counted 242 traffic accidents, the reasons for which was the failure by drivers of rules of journey of railway crossings: marked increase of 17.5 %. In these accidents killed 317 and injured 94 people.

a "We have repeatedly proposed to toughen the penalties for such violations, particularly in mass transport. In the past year we have sent appeals to the interior Ministry and other agencies, focused on the unprecedented growth in the number of violations, — noted in a press-service of Russian Railways.

While the penalty for violating the move is purely symbolic size to 1 000. Probably because of this, some drivers violate traffic rules, driving on red signal railroad light. Sometimes hurrying motorists are willing to break even the lowered gate and automatic barriers, in order to save a few seconds. This can lead to dire consequences. In March 2018, the Russian government made the necessary amendments to the state Duma, so that in a short time, the penalty will increase to 5 000.

At the same time specislity noted that sometimes one of the main causes of such accidents is the poor condition of the crossings. According to the expert traffic safety Ekaterina Solovieva, about half of the moves in Russia are on balance of the Railways, the rest are industrial enterprises and military purposes. The condition of many of them "far from normative".