Bulgarian Road Carnage Claims No Victims Overnight

Society | November 2, 2007, Friday // 00:00
Bulgaria, Traffic, Road Accidents: Bulgarian Road Carnage Claims No Victims Overnight The lull comes as Bulgaria's road police begin a campaign to enforce the wintertime driving regulations, which carry fines for not having one's headlights on or malfunctioning windscreen wipers. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

No lives were claimed in 13 heavy car crashes reported overnight across Bulgaria, according to the data of the country's Interior Ministry.

A total of 29 people were injured in the hits, none of them in critical condition.

In the capital city of Sofia, the number of traffic accidents during the same period was 150, including three major car crashes, which left three people injured.

The lull comes as Bulgaria's road police begin a campaign to enforce the wintertime driving regulations, which include having one's headlights on throughout the day as well as night and.

With the road police announcing an increasing number of surprise checks on the roads this month to hammer the point home, drivers are now more cautious, causing the number of traffic accidents to go down.

According to the interior ministry's statistics 868 were killed and 8141 injured in 6732 car crashes in the first ten months of the year.

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