For two months of 2021, 65 road accidents occurred on the roads of the republic. In them 96 people were injured of varying severity, nine died, the State Traffic Inspectorate of Karelia informs.
The total number of road accidents decreased by 27%, but they claimed more lives than in the same period last year: nine against seven (+ 28%). The number of injured people decreased from 122 to 96 (by 21%).
Every third accident was registered in Petrozavodsk (19 accidents, 2 dead, 21 injured).
A negative trend has been observed for the second year in Medvezhyegorsk District. There, the number of road accidents remained at the level of last year, but the number of fatalities increased from one to four (+ 300%). In Loukhsky district, the number of road accidents increased from one to three (1 died, 4 were injured). In the Lahdenpohskiy region, the number of road accidents increased from two to four (no fatalities, 4 injured). In the Pryazha region, the number of road accidents increased from four to seven (1 died, 15 injured).
From the good news: the number of road accidents and the number of people killed in them has decreased in Prionezhsky, Sortavala and Suoyarvsky districts.