by val848 » Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:38 am
Hello, and thank you for your question!
Yes, indeed, driving here is much more dangerous than in the UK. I would say there are several reasons for that: poor initial driver training- there is no standard for Learner driver as yet, any person can announce himself as driving instructor, also we came very fast from the time when there were very little number of cars and nearly impossible to buy them, to the time, when very powerful vehicles are available. To add to that Russian people like to drive fast and quite aggressively. Again, poor enforcement from local police. Actually, the police are not trained as police in your country to drive safely. So overall, there are 27000 people killed every year for the last 5 years and the situation is not really improving. Which gives an opportunity for private companies who know how it should be done to open business and train drivers. Again, major demand comes from international companies. The fact that driving is dangerous here, many people have dash cameras so that footage can be used in court in case of an incident. Also for the last years we have too many people from ex Soviet Union republics, like Uzbekistan, who come to Russia to earn money. The come and work as cleaners or drivers with even less experience. They are paid less than Russians, but private companies like that, so the result is increased statistics.