Makhachkala, December 18, 2008. The interagency meeting of leaders of the STSI Department of the Interior Ministry RD and the representatives of the Department of the state road inspection in RD has taken place in the STSI Department of the Interior Ministry RD in Makhachkala.

Agenda of the meeting included a question of passenger traffic safety in the Republic of Dagestan. At the meeting the chief of the inspection office of the STSI Department of the Interior Ministry RD Soltanmurad Magomaliev has declared a speech on general safety status of traffic in Dagestan.

Not long ago the Republic of Dagestan was in among the leaders on breakdown susceptibility level of passenger transportation. “The breakdown susceptibility analysis on passenger transport for last six years testifies to gradual decrease in number of such accidents and their victims. Objectively the high level of breakdown susceptibility of passenger motor transportation is the evidence of specific road conditions in Dagestan. Unlike other regions of Russia, the motor transportation is prevailing in the transport infrastructure of Dagestan. The bus service plays a key role in the region.

At the same time, when thoroughly investigating the circumstances of each accident it becomes clear that the main reason for the number of road accidents is rough infringement of vehicle operational regulations, poor discipline of drivers, insufficient preventive work activities at the motor transportation enterprises. The municipal passenger automobile enterprises, created in cities and districts, have confined themselves to fixing the place of passenger boarding and collection of fees for the route permit. Requirements on pre-scheduled and post-scheduled checks of drivers are ignored; one pays no attention to technical test of buses” – Magomaliev said.