File photo of the Sofia central bus station
As promised by the Bulgarian transport authorities, a massive inspection of the country's bus fleet was launched Monday.
The measure comes after 8 people perished in a hellish crash early on Wednesday. A bus, travelling from the capital Sofia to the Black Sea city of Burgas overturned on Trakiya highway, near the second largest city of Plovdiv, killing 8 and injuring 18.
The inspections include checking each bus's documentation, technical condition and time schedule and will take around 10-15 minutes, an official has told the Dnevnik daily.
Among the 20 buses inspected Monday at the Sofia central bus station, the country's largest one, only two had issues.
Bulgaria's Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has assured that in the upcoming days he will propose a debate between experts and bus companies to introduce restrictions on the age of buses which service busy lines, adding such proposal had been submitted to the Parliament months ago, but it had not been passed yet.