“It has become noticeably safer on the streets of cities and villages. About half the number of registered hijackings of vehicles (in 2014 - 34.2 thousand, in 2018 - 19.5 thousand) and criminal hooliganism (4 thousand and 2.1 thousand, respectively), ”are given on Russian Interior Ministry website words of the official representative of the department Irina Volk.
It is specified that, according to agency statistics, the number of accidents has decreased by almost 16%, while the number of deaths in them has decreased by a third.
Earlier, the deputy head of the Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia Oleg Ponaryin, in an interview with kp.ru, announced a decrease in accident rates on roads since the beginning of 2019.