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For half a 2026 in Ukraine, more than 600 people died in road accidents due to speeding
From January to June 2026, in a period when speeding caused road deaths, 645 people died.
Literal: “From January to June 2026, due to speeding violations, 4564 road traffic accidents with fatalities and/or injuries were recorded, in which 645 people died and 5 804 were injured.”
According to the Patrol Police, from the beginning of 2026 to July 27 in Ukraine drivers exceeded the speed limit 895 005 times, most of which related to exceeding the speed limit by 20 to 50 km/h. At the same time, throughout the year 2025 there were 5 372 882 cases of speeding.
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Also in 2025, due to speeding, 1718 people died and 1298 were injured. In total, last year there were 10 599 road accidents with fatalities and/or injuries.
Background:
At the beginning of June in Kyiv, there was a fatal road accident caused by a driver who previously had 39 traffic violations recorded. Most of them concerned speeding. After that former Prime Minister Yulia Svirydenko announced a set of measures to increase driver accountability on the road.
At the end of June, the Verkhovna Rada began drafting a bill that would significantly raise fines for speeding violations. Currently, the fine for speeding from 20 to 50 km/h is 340 hryvnias, and for more than 50 km/h — 1700 hryvnias.
The new bill proposes increasing the fine to 680 hryvnias for speeding more than 20 km/h, to 2040 hryvnias for more than 40 km/h, to 2720 hryvnias for more than 60 km/h, and 3400 hryvnias for more than 80 km/h. Also, for five or more speeding violations in a year, it proposes a fine of 17 000 hryvnias.
Earlier, Ukrainian news agency reported that although the fine for speeding from 20 to 50 km/h is 340 hryvnias, in reality most fines today are issued automatically by speed cameras. And for such cases there is a “grace period” rule: in case of prompt payment, the amount is halved. Thus, in practice offenders often pay only 170 hryvnias.
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