In Moscow, a minibus encountered a foreign car: 3 people were injured

Three people were seriously injured today as a result of a collision of a route Gazelle with a foreign car in the south of Moscow. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the capital's traffic police.

The accident occurred at 9:45 on the 6th Radial Street (in the Tsaritsyno metro area). According to preliminary data, the driver of the car accident was a minibus driver who, at high speed, "cut" a parallel to a moving foreign car.

The injured - two men and a woman - are hospitalized in city hospitals with severe injuries. At the scene of the traffic police and investigators of the prosecutor's office work at the scene.

Last week there were 5 accidents involving route taxi, as a result of which 26 people died

On June 15, in Kursk, as a result of a collision of a Gazelle minibus with a Volga car, six people were killed.

Four of people who died as a result of the accident are passengers of a minibus. The remaining two are the Volga passengers. A few more people received serious injuries and were taken to the local hospital.

According to preliminary data, the culprit of the accident was a driver of a car.

On June 14, the VAZ -2106 and the Gazelle minibus collided near Makhachkala , which executed the flight along the Makhachkala - Gergebil route. As a result of this incident, three people died and eight more were injured.

On June 12, in Moscow, as a result of a collision of a Gazelle minibus and a BMW car, six people were hospitalized with serious wounds. The incident occurred at 21:40 at the intersection of Koshtyants and Lobachevsky streets.

On June 12, near Tula on the 168th kilometer of the federal highway Moscow, the BMW car drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into the Gazelle route. As a result of the accident, 8 people died, two in serious condition were hospitalized.

On June 10, in the suburbs of the Moscow, 60 km of the Kiev highway, the Gazelle car at full speed drove into the standing KAMAZ truck. As a result, car accidents died, another 8 were injured.

In Moscow, a special operation to check minibuses is held

A special operation, named Gazelle, which is carried out in Moscow and the Moscow Region by the forces of the traffic police departments of two regions, will end on June 21, a source in the traffic police of the capital said on Monday of Interfax,

The operation began on the morning of June 11. The reason for its beginning was an accident on the Kiev highway, in which the driver and 8 passengers of the "minibus" died . The purpose of the operation is to check the technical condition of all minibuses operating in the Moscow region, the personnel selection of drivers, conduct their medical examination, and get acquainted with the working and rest conditions.

According to the inspector, the most grave violations take place on the exit from the city and in the overloaded sections of the tracks near Moscow, where the drivers of minibuses, trying to go around the "traffic jams", more often violate the rules.

The traffic police admits that this mode of transport is unsafe, but indispensable

The traffic police experts explain the high accident rate of the Gazelle, first of all, "the desire of the owners to maximize the profit, including by more intensive operation of the machines." In violation of safety standards, drivers who are working “in my piece” put additional seats and take “standing” passengers.

The complaints are also caused by specialists in the structural flaws of the car. As the tests showed, out of seven passengers in the Gazelle salon, if it were in real life, two would probably have died, and the remaining would be serious injuries. Nevertheless, being an order of magnitude cheaper than imported minibuses, Gazelle remains one of the most popular among car carriers.

In total, according to the metropolitan city hall, about 2 million people use about 2 million people every day, the services of route taxis owned in Moscow, ITAR-TASS reports. Given the Moscow Region, this figure increases almost one and a half times.