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Carnage on the roads - 13 dead, four critical and 30 injured in one day
Photo: Tsvetelina Nikolaeva
In the past 24 hours, 13 people have been killed, four critically injured and more than 30 injured in traffic-related incidents across the country, the press centre of the Ministry of Interior revealed on October 19 2009.
Earlier on October 13, six people were killed on the road in what was one of the heaviest death tolls in the country in weeks. But on October 18 more than twice that number were killed.
In Sofia alone there were two heavy collisions and 64 minor crashes in which one person was killed and one hospitalised.
Since the beginning of the year in Bulgaria 726 people have been killed in road collisions, while the number of injured and maimed runs into the thousands. By comparison, only one person has died from the much publicised H1N1 influenza.
Authorities remind motorists that the weather in Bulgaria will remain wet and cold, with obscured visibility well into the week, with improvements expected around October 23.
Earlier on October 13, six people were killed on the road in what was one of the heaviest death tolls in the country in weeks. But on October 18 more than twice that number were killed.
In Sofia alone there were two heavy collisions and 64 minor crashes in which one person was killed and one hospitalised.
Since the beginning of the year in Bulgaria 726 people have been killed in road collisions, while the number of injured and maimed runs into the thousands. By comparison, only one person has died from the much publicised H1N1 influenza.
Authorities remind motorists that the weather in Bulgaria will remain wet and cold, with obscured visibility well into the week, with improvements expected around October 23.
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Every cab prints its tariff. The difference is the placing of the decimal point. Once you are in the cab it is case of buyer beware. Some of the cabs have police they call if you refuse to pay.. how well they know each other is open to question..but they point out to you the displayed tariff.. complaint over...Look
Absolutely disgusting Bulgaria really needs to sort this problem out and quick....
Health Departments worldwide have turned a blind eye to all this since the invention of the automobile.
These are Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Traffic Signage is 'poor' if present at all.
I have no knowledge of Bulgarian driver training or tests, but the end result is that they are both a waste of time.
The police are few, their own driving skills are limited, and they are only employed on document checks.
The authorities have no interest in dealing wit the problem; and the media only concentrate on the end carnage.
So, please Sofia Echo and others - stop printing these stories as 'news' that should surprise [...]
Read the full comment the reader. Instead use the power of the press to start a campaign. Print photographs of cars jumping lights, illegally parked etc. I am sure readers would love to cntribute, and the KAT can provide details to name and shame the offenders.
To casual observer:
Police does not collect taxes, they collect bribes
this is like reading news from the Gaza Strip.
Bulgaria is at war
Another 13 killed but no one can be surprised with the standard of driving so low and the police seeming to feel their job is to collect taxes for the Revenue Agency.
Strange how the police can notice that the car doesn't have the right tax stickers but can't see that the same car's lights don't all work!