ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES AS MEDICAL AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON

Road traffic injuries are one of the most important medical and social problems in the modern world, however, having a general tendency to decrease in the number of accidents involving vehicles in the period from 2005 to 2020, however, the proportion of fatal injuries remains the same high.

In economically developed countries of the world, road traffic injuries rank 10th among the causes of death of the able-bodied population. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3,000 people die in car crashes every day in the world and another 100,000 people are seriously injured. Approximately 1,250,000 people die per year, and another 30-50 million are seriously injured. At the same time, the total number of accidents per year worldwide is 11 365 000 accidents, that is, every 11 accidents leads to the death of a person.

In 2021 alone, 164 thousand road accidents were registered in Russia, in which 17 thousand people died. The leading position is occupied by a violation of the speed limit.