The number of road accidents in Ukraine has doubled in the last 5 hours due to difficult winter weather conditions, reaching 785, reported Oleksiy Biloshytskyi, First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine, on Monday, writes UNN.
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As Biloshytskyi noted, since the beginning of the day, as of 4:00 PM, the 102/112 hotline received reports of road accidents:
- 785 calls about road accidents across Ukraine, of which 79 calls were about road accidents with casualties; unfortunately, there are fatalities;
- 185 calls in Kyiv, 10 of which were road accidents with casualties.
"Be extremely careful on the road and, if possible, refrain from long-distance trips," Biloshytskyi emphasized.
Recall
As of 11 AM today, 377 road accidents occurred in Ukraine, 87 of which were in Kyiv; short-term traffic complications are arising across the country, with particular attention paid to Kyiv, Odesa, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Lviv, and other regions.