The number of traffic accident increased by 5.4% in Russia for 9 months in comparison with the same period of last year and was 159217. This data contains in materials of the round-table discussion, devoted to traffic safety in Russian metropolises. The round-table discussion took place today in State Duma. 23773 men died within 9 months of 2005 and 197754 people were injured in traffic accidents.
As compared with the same period of 2004 the number of injured men increased by 7.4%, and the number of died decreased by 3.3%. The materials say that increase of traffic accidents number and the number of victims were fixed in 19 regions of Russian Federation. The participants of round-table discussion paid attention to the fact that since June of this year temps rate of monthly increases accelerated in comparison with same months of 2004.
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