In the 70s of the 20th century, the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then the USSR, responsible for the information and analytical part, made conclusions that some sections of roads in the Soviet Union have an accident rate several times higher than the average country throughout the country. All these accidents tried to write off on the unsatisfactory condition of the roads, the poor work of the inspection officers, as well as the complex relief of those places, but this did not always work out. Inspections showed that most of these strange accidents occurred in areas where there was good visibility, and asphalt coating fully consistent with GOST. Quite often near places where accidents regularly occurred, there were traffic police posts that served as a restraining factor for fans of fast driving. One of the police reports narrated that in July 73 on the highway leading to Syktyvkar, a LiAZ bus and a Moskvich car collided near the GAI post. The car for no apparent reason greatly exceeded the speed and flew into the oncoming lane and as a result of the collision, the driver of the Muscovite died. In less than two weeks, as in the same section to the ditch slopped down from the road and the tractor Belarus rolled over several times. The trial showed that the tractor driver, that he received severe injury, was absolutely sober, but why he sharply turned the steering wheel to the right, was not clarified. Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of those times m. A. Shchelokov ordered to prepare a map of roads in the country where places were designated with the greatest number of accidents. Experts found that the most emergency hazardous areas were located on some roads of the Moscow Region and in the north of the Leningrad Region, in the Orenburg and Vologda Oblast, in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Buryat and Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The most safe in this regard were roads located in the Baltic republics.
