A vehicle surveillance point will be created at the border between North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, in Russia.

This decision was reached between Teimuraz Tuskaev, the North Ossetian head of government in Vladikavkaz; and Nikolay Asaul, Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia, reported TASS news agency of the country. 

In Tuskaev’s words, there is a huge transport flow in the said area, and therefore there is a need to increase surveillance.

Asaul, for his part, underscored the need to increase the safety of interstate transportation. He also urged to enhance cooperation, so as to prevent the recurrence of accidents such as Friday’s bus crash.

As reported earlier, a passenger bus, which was heading from Moscow to Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, collided with a truck, on Friday at around 4:30am, on the Vladikavkaz-Beslan bypass, in North Ossetia. As a result, five people, including the bus driver, were killed, and 27 others sustained injuries. There were 52 passengers in the vehicle.