The State Traffic Inspectorate announced the number of fatalities on roads in the Sverdlovsk Region during the New Year's holidays.

      On the first working day, the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Sverdlovsk Region summed up its work during the longest New Year holidays in Russia's history.

      Around 400 DPS officers ensured road safety daily, said Galina Kravchenko, head of the Road Traffic Safety Promotion Department and a police captain.

      On peak days the deployment of state traffic inspectors was further strengthened. About 15 additional patrols were formed each day, with special attention paid to traffic flows on the approaches to Yekaterinburg.

      During the reporting period, 1,014 road accidents were recorded, including 46 with casualties. As a result of the accidents, 8 people died and 56 adults and 8 children were injured.

      "More than 730 drivers were removed from the traffic flow, the majority for driving under the influence and without the right to drive," Galina Kravchenko said at a press conference in the TASS-Ural press center.

      Despite this, compared with the same period of the previous year, 2025, the statistics show a positive trend: over the 11 days of this year there were a quarter fewer accidents with casualties (26% fewer), 27% fewer fatalities, and 29% fewer injuries.

      In 2024 the state program "Road Traffic Safety Strategy in the Russian Federation for 2018–2024" came to an end.

      Within its framework, a mortality target was set for the Sverdlovsk Region — no more than 318 people per year. In 2023, as in 2024, exactly 318 people died on the region's roads. These figures were presented at a press conference in January 2025 by the head of the regional agency, Alexey Spiridonov.

      From 2025, road traffic safety in Russia is being implemented under the new national project "Infrastructure for Life," Spiridonov said.

Другие Новости Екатеринбурга (ЕКБ166)

A young Sverdlovsk resident has been preparing for three years to join the ranks of the traffic police (PHOTO) Officers of the State Traffic Inspectorate at the Shalinsky police department have been helping a schoolboy for three years so that he may one day stand alongside them. Roman, from the settlement of Ilim, dreams of becoming a traffic police inspector, the State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region reports. Ural Airlines recounted how its passengers welcomed the New Year in flight. More than 150 passengers on Ural Airlines flight U6-263 rang in the New Year 2026 at an altitude of 10,000 meters aboard the aircraft, the carrier said on its Telegram channel. In the Urals, a defendant accused of pedophilia failed to appear in court for the sentencing. The convict, who had been evading serving a sentence for a serious crime, was detained yesterday, January 14, in Sverdlovsk Region by operatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service (GUFSIN), the press service of the regional penitentiary department reported. It has become known why the ice town in Yekaterinburg is being torn down so quickly. Already in this In Yekaterinburg, teenagers lured a girl out of her home and brutally beat her. In Yekaterinburg, a crowd of teenagers beat a 15-year-old schoolgirl; the victim sustained injuries. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. Meteorologists reported when the -40°C cold will leave Sverdlovsk Oblast. Over the next 24 hours, anomalously cold weather will persist across a large part of the Sverdlovsk Region, with air temperatures 7–14°C below normal.❗️ ✅January 15.

The State Traffic Inspectorate announced the number of fatalities on roads in the Sverdlovsk Region during the New Year's holidays.

The State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region, on the first working day after the long New Year holidays, summed up its work over those days. About 400 traffic police officers ensured road traffic safety each day, said the head of the Road Safety Promotion Department, Police Captain Galina Kravchenko.