The number of road accidents is down by 24% during the first 6 months of the pandemic year – 2020 - compared to the same period of the last five years – 2015-2019, indicates a summary report on the traffic situation and road safety adopted by the..
For the period of ten years from 2008 to 2018, the number of people killed in road accidents has decreased by 37 percent, the latest Eurostat data shows . The number of road deaths per capita is lowest in Ireland and Denmark, and highest in Romania and..
In 2019, the road death toll in Bulgaria amounted to 628, which was 17 people more as compared to the previous year. Bulgaria will again top the negative EU ranking with 90 deaths in road traffic accidents per 1 million inhabitants. Last year, the..
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has called a meeting of the heads of all institutions engaged in investigating the road accidents in Bulgaria of the past few days , Chief Commissioner Hristo Terziyski, Director of the National Police General..
Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. This year the target is to reduce road fatalities and serious injuries by 50 percent. Alexy Kesyakov from the National Public Advisory Road Safety Committee on the meaning of this day: “We..
Police patrols along the Sofia-Varna road on the territory of the region of Lovech will be doubled on weekends and on holidays after the three severe road accidents that took place there since Friday, claiming the lives of 11 and injuring 26, 4 of them..
Plovdiv is top of the list of Bulgarian towns in the number of road accidents with casualties per capita of the population, Smolyan is bottom of the list, indicates an analysis for 2016 by the Union of Bulgarian Motorists. 1,049 major traffic..
Some 17 drunk drivers were registered only over a single weekend in Sofia, as breathalyzers marked 1.5 permille of blood alcohol content /BAC/ which pointed at no less than 500 g of concentrate. The other violation is speeding of over 100 km/h at a..
A votive offering aimed at reducing the number of road traffic victims was held on the main road connecting the cities of Smolyan and Plovdiv (South Bulgaria). Bishop Arseny of Znelpol served a blessing ceremony and the Abbot of Bachkovo Monastery..
Standard daily informs on Thursday that Bulgaria’s hopes to see its nominee in the position of the next Un Secretary General were dashed . Former Portuguese Premier Antonio Guterres is set to become the next UN Secretary General. Kristalina Georgieva..
