DPS officers. File photoZen
About a third of all pedestrian collisions occur at night, with more than 60% of pedestrian deaths occurring when vehicles hit them in conditions of limited visibility; The corresponding data for ten months of 2024 were reported to the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
In total, since the beginning of the year, 26.9 thousand accidents involving pedestrians have been registered in Russia, as a result of which more than 2.5 thousand people were killed and 25.2 thousand people were injured. Of these, 8.6 thousand collisions occurred in the dark. In such car accidents, more than 1.6 thousand people died and 7.3 thousand were injured.
Major accidents involving pedestrians in Russia in 2023-2024 years