UDK: 656.13

Lyudmila M. Maleshina - Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Russian University of Transport (MIIT), Moscow, Russia

Abstract. Road accident data are the basis for monitoring progress and estimating the efficiency of road safety measures. The current paper has analyzed such key indicators of accidents on Russian roads for the five-year period from 2019 to 2023 as a number of road accidents (RA) with injuries, a total number of people killed and injured in road accidents, social risk and the severity of consequences. There has been established that the main cause of road accidents on the country’s roads is the violation of traffic rules by vehicle drivers. The paper has studied the legislative initiatives of the Government of the Russian Federation to increase fines for traffic violations in 2025. There has been presented an annual increasing dynamics of road accidents involving personal mobility vehicles (PMV), including fatalities. There have been reviewed sanctions for violation of traffic rules by PMV drivers, who are officially recognized as road users.

Keywords: accident rate; injuries; road traffic accidents; social risk; severity of consequences; personal mobility vehicles.

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