The Ministry of Transport and Communications has canceled the ban on nighttime passenger road transportation in Ukraine. \n \nThe State Department of Automobile Transport "Ukravtotrans" banned intercity and international trips from 22:00 to 6:00 starting August 27 due to a sharp increase in accidents involving passenger road transport. \n \nRoad carriers reported a critical drop in income and the emergence of a large number of private carriers operating nighttime trips without a license. \n \nOn September 8, the Ministry of Transport and Communications canceled this ban with respect to regular international bus routes. \n \nSince last year, several major road accidents involving passenger transport have occurred in Ukraine, in which people died. \n \nIn particular, on August 19, on the Kyiv-Odesa highway near the village of Sobkivka in the Uman district, a Volvo bus with 54 passengers who were citizens of Belarus traveling from Odesa toward Kyiv collided with a Mercedes scheduled minibus with 17 passengers traveling from Uman to Odesa. \n \nAccording to preliminary data, the driver of the Volvo bus left Sudak (Crimea) the day before the accident and had been at the wheel all night, transporting Belarusians who had vacationed in Crimea home to the city of Mozyr. Due to fatigue, he fell asleep at the wheel and drove into oncoming traffic. \n\nOn December 17, 2003, on the Simferopol-Alushta highway, a bus in which miners of the state holding company "Pavlogradugol" were traveling to a sanatorium overturned and fell from a height of 10 meters. As a result of the accident, 18 people died. \n