Road crashes dropped 8% last year to 150,120, due to tougher laws and penalties, Olexiy Biloshitsky, the first deputy head of Ukraine’s patrol police, writes on Facebook. The highway death toll dropped by 2.4%, to 3,350, and injuries dropped by 11%, to 31,000. Last year, Ukraine introduced stricter speed limits in cities and higher fines for speeding, drunk driving and other moving violations.