Fri, Feb 10 2012

Firework injuries and car accidents prevail in Bulgaria's New Year's Eve celebrations

Thu, Jan 01 2009 17:41 CET

bySvetlana Guineva

944 Views

An eye injury from a firework, a heavy car accident near Ruski Pametnik in Sofia and a few alcohol-related incidents were among the registered cases at the Pirogov emergency hospital in the capital during Bulgaria's New Year's celebrations, Bulgarian news agency BTA said, as quoted by Dnevnik daily on January 1 2009.
 
One patient sustaining an eye injury from a firework was transported from the village of Loboush, Kovachevtsi municipality. Another seven patients were treated for minor beating-inflicted wounds and later discharged from the hospital.

After a car accident near Ruski Pametnik in Sofia, a 17-year-old girl was admitted to Pirogov with a brain concussion and fractured pelvis. Local news agencies reported her condition to be life threatening.

Over the December 31 2008 to January 1 2009 period, four minors were treated for severe state of drunkenness and later discharged.

A celebration gone wrong scenario unfolded in the village of Stoudena, near Pernik, where a fire in a villa, caused by the explosion of a gas barbeque, cost the life of a 20-year-old man; three more people were left with various degrees of burns, Focus news said.

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

Summer road deaths in Bulgaria mount up

In latest fatal accident, driver and passenger die as their car collides head-on with a truck while driving in the oncoming lane.

Policeman kills two youths in car crash

Horror smash as policeman loses control of his vehicle and kills innocent couple.

More in this category

US embassy in Sofia announces youth essay contest

Works will be reviewed by a group of judges, and winners will receive certificates and prizes.

Bulgarian police bust drug distribution gang in ‘Operation Hammer’

Seven arrested, including ‘The Squirrel’ who was found in possession of 10 00 euro, Interior Ministry says. Mobile phones, computer equipment and drug paraphernalia seized.

Bulgaria’s winter weekend weather – cloudy and cold with light snow

Maximum temperatures across the country will remain mostly below zero.

Mild earth tremors in Bulgaria on February 10

The first tremor was at about 12.34am, followed by another three minutes later. Their epicentres were located between the towns of Radnevo and Topolovgrad.

Bulgaria halts electricity exports after power plant accident

There was no risk of blackouts caused by insufficient power supply, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov told Bulgarian National Radio.

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.