From the beginning of 2007 until the end of September, 760 people died in road accidents in Bulgaria, data from Bulgarian traffic police (KAT), published on September 30, showed.
This is comparable to a medium size Bulgarian village, erased from the map, mediapool.bg said.
Over the first nine months of 2007, KAT registered 5 879 accidents with 7 181 victims. Compared to the same period last year, this was 266 accidents and 478 victims less.
Over the whole of 2006, 8 182 accidents had been registered, in which 1038 people lost their lives and 10 161 were wounded, mediapool.bg said.
