Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia: more than 23 thousand accidents have occurred in the country since the beginning of the year

He said this on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

“Despite the fact that most of the indicators (accident rates. -

) are still declining, the number of accidents associated with pedestrian collisions has decreased by a little more than 5%, but the figure itself, of course, is impressive - it’s a little more than 23 thousand accidents,” he said.

According to him, more than 2.5 thousand people died in these accidents, and more than 21.5 thousand citizens were injured.

Earlier, auto expert Shaparin told what to do in the event of an accident with a driver without OSAGO.