Blood alcohol content

A 54-year-old Latvian citizen was detained in Sunny Beach for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to BGNES. On Wednesday at approximately 5:25 p.m., the man was stopped by officers from the Regional Office in Nessebar for an inspection.

An American residing in Burgas was involved in a car crash on the Trakia highway, resulting in significant damage to his vehicle. Following the incident, the driver underwent alcohol testing, which revealed a blood alcohol concentration of 2.98 per thousand, though he declined to provide a blood sample for further chemical analysis.

A 4-year-old girl died after an accident in Pleven region, the Ministry of the Interior reports. The accident happened around 21:35 last night on a third-class road after the village of Opanec in the direction of the town of Dolna Mitropolia.

The 30-year-old driver of the car in which the child was traveling lost control, the car left the roadway and hit a roadside tree.

The National Assembly increased the penalties for road deaths, setting a maximum sentence of 5 to 12 years in prison in particularly serious cases. With the finally adopted amendments to the Penal Code, the deputies recorded that if the death was caused after the use of alcohol and drugs in particularly severe cases, the punishment is imprisonment from 10 to 20 years.

The national association of driving instructors has asked authorities to abolish limits for drink driving, claiming that driving under the influence of any amount of alcohol is dangerous.
According to Greece's highway code, it's illegal to drive with a blood alcohol content of more than 0.5 milligrams per liter or a breath alcohol content of more than 0.25mg/l.

The man was a pedestrian, Croatian website Index is reporting on Monday.

The amendments to the Road Traffic Act which provide for new harsher penalties will enter in force on Saturday.

The fines for speeding in a residential area are as follows: when speeding at between 31km/h and 40 km/h the fine is BGN 400, for speeding over 40 km/h, the fine is BGN 600 and for speeding over 50 km/h - BGN 700.

Serbia to change blood alcohol content limit for drivers

BELGRADE -- Upcoming amendments to the Law on Traffic Safety will change the blood alcohol content (BAC) limit for drivers, the Serbian interior minister has announced.

This limit is currently at 0.3 milligrams per milliliter, and will be reduced to 0.2 mg/ml, Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.

Drunk driver with 5.19 BAC arrested in eastern town

POZAREVAC -- The traffic police in the town of Pozarevac in eastern Serbia on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old man for driving while extremely intoxicated.

The blood alcohol content (BAC) of the driver, S.B., was 5.19 milligrams per milliliter at the time of the arrest.

The legal limit in Serbia is 0.3 mg/ml.

Drunk driver caught with 5.5 per mil blood alcohol

BELGRADE -- A drunk driver in Uzice, western Serbia, has had his license revoked and was ordered to pay RSD 150,000 after causing a traffic accident.

The man crashed into a parked car and then fell asleep. The police determined that his blood alcohol content was 5.5 milligrams per milliliter.