The Prosecutor General’s Office has made a proposal to the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Russian Railways to increase the number of cameras at railway crossings and take other measures to reduce the accident rate. reports “Kommersant”.
In particular, the supervisory authority wants to make adjustments to the procedure for equipping crossings with automatic cameras and equipping crossings with “devices to prevent unauthorized passage”. The Prosecutor General’s Office also demands that such routes be included in the practical part of the driving license exam.
According to the State Traffic Inspectorate, over the seven months of 2024, the number of accidents at crossings increased by 9.8%.
After a collision with KamAZ at a crossing in the Volgograd region at the end of July I landed Kazan-Adler train derailed. Truck driver Aslambek Usmatov said he did not understand how his dump truck fell onto the tracks. He was seriously injured. The number of victims exceeded 100 people, 33 of whom were children.
Formerly a freight train I landed From the rails in St. Petersburg.
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Source: Gazeta
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