On October 7, in Omsk, employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate carried out a targeted preventive operation called «Pedestrian». As the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Omsk region informs, in the city this year there were six hundred and eighty-five accidents involving pedestrians, which amounted to about half of the total number of accidents..
Among the main reasons for collisions is passing through a pedestrian crossing at the moment when the car in the first lane stopped, and some driver in the remaining rows continued to move without first making sure that there were no pedestrians. One hundred thirty-six traffic violations were revealed during the raid.
