Accident

The Republican People's Party (CHP) submitted a motion to the parliament on Aug. 10 for a detailed report on the institutional, administrative, legal and economic factors of work accidents in order to establish a holistic approach to prevent such incidents.

A Turkish man who survived a traffic accident in Ankara took a selfie while injured and lying on the road, daily Vatan reported April 28.

In 2014 a total of 118 workplace deaths were registered and 2807 people were injured in occupational accidents in Bulgaria, according to data provided by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).

CITUB published statistics Monday to mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, April 28, according to dnevnik.bg.

A multiple-vehicle collision killed 12 people amid difficult weather conditions on a "deadly" highway in a southeastern Turkish province on March 29.

A bus carrying children suffered a minor traffic accident on its way down from the Aleko chalet in the Vitosha Mountain to Sofia's Dragalevtsi residential district.

Nobody was injured in the accident.

Slightly after 10 am on Saturday, the bus, which had not been equipped with tire chains, hit a tree, according to the press office of the Interior Ministry.

Breathtaking footage of a deadly traffic accident in Istanbul has surfaced 10 days after the crash, showing how scores of metrobus passengers narrowly escaped death.

Turkey has launched a new drive to improve its appalling workplace safety standards that leave hundreds dead every year, two weeks after its latest deadly mining accident.

Eighteen people were killed and 27 were injured after a bus rolled over and fell into a ditch in the southern province of Isparta in the morning hours of Oct. 31.

The bus was carrying a group of agriculture laborers, mostly women, working in a plantation of apple trees near the district of Yalvaç, officials have said. Many of the injured are in serious condition.

Seventeen people were killed and 28 were injured after a bus rolled over and fell into a ditch in the southern province of Isparta in the morning hours of Oct. 31.

The bus was carrying a group of agriculture laborers, mostly women, working in a plantation of apple trees near the district of Yalvaç, officials have said. Many of the injured are in serious condition.

Twenty people have lost their lives and more than 200 others were injured in road traffic accidents in Bulgaria since the beginning of October, BTV reported on Saturday.

According to Interior Ministry Statistics, a total of 170 motor vehicle accidents happened in the country in the first 10 days of the month, BTV said.