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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS * Bulgaria - The most often mentioned causes: alcohol or drugs and speeding
Road infrastructure, clearly, was not the only reason for traffic accidents
Sofia,Bulgaria -News Agency Focus/ The Sofia Echo -18 July 2008: -- ... according to Valentin Panchev, state expert on road safety at the Transport Ministry. The most often mentioned causes of traffic accidents in Bulgaria were driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and speeding, Focus quoted Panchev as saying. More than 20 000 Bulgarians had had their driving licences revoked for breaching traffic regulations in 2007, he said... Revoking licences and the periodic safe driving campaigns have had a small impact on the death toll of road accidents, Interior Ministry statistics show. The number of crashes in 2007 fell by 2.2 per cent on the year to about 8000, while the number of people killed on the roads decreased by 3.3 per cent to 1004. In the period January 1-July 15 2008, the death toll was 509 in 3966 crashes, compared with 507 who died in 4073 accidents over the same period of 2007... The number of accidents traditionally increases in summer months because of the higher number of tourists, and also because freight carriers at the height of harvest season routinely overload trucks, while the truck drivers often disregard driving time and rest regulations, the Transport Ministry said on July 11... As a means of prevention, the motor vehicle administration executive agency of the ministry has launched mass checks along the Black Sea coast, paying special attention to buses carrying tourists and trucks carrying construction materials and building waste to and from construction sites, the ministry said in a statement on its website... (Photo ASSEN TONEV : Despite numerous wrecked car displayed by the sides of Bulgarian roads, the number of traffic accidents is decreasing very slowly)Labels: traffic accidents
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