Driving speed to be limited to 40 km/h in places of frequent road accidents
9 August 2013, Friday
On August 10 Head of State Road Traffic Inspectorate Rifkat Minnikhanov held a session of government commission on road safety at Tatarstan Government House. Accident rate, prevention of road accidents and measures on decreasing the number of injuries, ensuring of safety of passenger transportation and organization of work on bringing access roads, pedestrian crossings near educational institutions in normal condition were discussed at the session.
Deputy Head of State Road Traffic Inspectorate Maskhut Miftakhov informed that the situation on roads is still rather difficult. 2631 road accidents were registered for seven months in the republic. 389 people died and 3376 were injured. The increase of accident rate was registered in Agryz, Aktanysh, Menzelinsk, Nizhnekamsk, Rybnaya Sloboda and Spassky regions.
Main reasons of accidents are serious traffic offences, driving on the wrong side, breaking of rules by pedestrians. As usual high share of accidents is observed because of unsatisfactory state of roads.
Maskhut Miftakhov was not satisfied with work of the commission on ensuring road safety and noted that the real situation is different. He continued that Tatarstan ministries and agencies do not work efficiently enough to increase road safety.
Rifkat Minnikhanov also focused on the role of mass media in promotion of road safety. He noted that activity of journalists is not so efficient. To improve the situation it was suggested to activate work with public organisations and media agencies, and increase the use of video registration.
Rifkat Minnikhanov proposed to introduce speed limits (40-50 km/h) in places of frequent road accidents.
Deputy Head of State Road Traffic Inspectorate Maskhut Miftakhov informed that the situation on roads is still rather difficult. 2631 road accidents were registered for seven months in the republic. 389 people died and 3376 were injured. The increase of accident rate was registered in Agryz, Aktanysh, Menzelinsk, Nizhnekamsk, Rybnaya Sloboda and Spassky regions.
Main reasons of accidents are serious traffic offences, driving on the wrong side, breaking of rules by pedestrians. As usual high share of accidents is observed because of unsatisfactory state of roads.
Maskhut Miftakhov was not satisfied with work of the commission on ensuring road safety and noted that the real situation is different. He continued that Tatarstan ministries and agencies do not work efficiently enough to increase road safety.
Rifkat Minnikhanov also focused on the role of mass media in promotion of road safety. He noted that activity of journalists is not so efficient. To improve the situation it was suggested to activate work with public organisations and media agencies, and increase the use of video registration.
Rifkat Minnikhanov proposed to introduce speed limits (40-50 km/h) in places of frequent road accidents.
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