Foreigners were responsible for 61.5% of road accidents with their participation in Russia in nine months 
participation that occurred in Russia in nine months of 2021 follows from a survey of road traffic accidents in the country prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was reviewed by TASS.
“On average, foreign drivers were responsible for 61.5 percent of all road accidents with their participation. In almost two-thirds of the cases, drivers were guilty of committing an accident – citizens of the republics of Armenia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, only in half of the cases the drivers were citizens of the republics of Belarus and Kazakhstan, ”the study says.
Also by 3.6 percent increased the number of road traffic accidents associated with violation of traffic rules by citizens of the CIS countries and by 1.5 percent – the number of people injured in such accidents. The largest number of such accidents occurred in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in the Moscow and Sakhalin regions. In total, from the beginning of the year to September, 3,540 road accidents occurred in the country due to violation of traffic rules by foreign drivers.
Earlier it became known that the former Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka Diomid (in the world – Sergei Ivanovich ) died in an accident on the federal highway Vologda – Novaya Ladoga in the Leningrad region. It is noted that the former bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) was in the front passenger seat of a Kia Sorento car during a collision with a MAN truck.