Traffic

A naked man stopped the traffic during a rush hour of the Sofia boulevard "Bulgaria" in the area of the Textile School minutes before 7 am this morning. He literally sat down on the roadway, reported bTV.

Fortunately, there was no accident. There is a police car and a medical team. They have managed to displace the visually inadequate man on the sidewalk.

Maintenance and housekeeping work on a number of key roads in Thessaloniki will cause some disruptions to traffic from Monday through Friday, authorities have said.

The areas that will be mainly affected are the Oraiokastro interchange and the highway between Thessaloniki and Nea Moudiana.

Car crash on the Varna-Burgas road in the area of the village of Staro Oryahovo hampered the traffic in both directions, the Varna police reported.

The incident took place at 11.15 am about a kilometer before Staro Oryahovo in the direction of Varna. According to the initial data, four cars were involved in the accident, three citizens were taken to the hospital.

During the summer, there will be a new facilitаtion for all drivers traveling to the South Black Sea coast. From today the traffic to the resorts South of Burgas has been exported outside the city, reported bTV. 

Traffic Police recorded a total of 7,510 "dangerous" traffic violations across the country in the past two weeks, according to a statement issued on Tuesday.

Violations deemed to be dangerous include running a red light, driving in the opposite direction to the flow of traffic, not wearing a seat belt, not wearing a crash helmet and speeding.

On 14th of June, the Bulgarian Parliament adopted at first reading the amendments to the Road Traffic Act with the votes of GERB, Bulgarian socialist Party (BSP) and United Patriots. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) and Volya party abstained, reported BNT. 

The law provides for removing the signs that warn drivers for speed cameras on the road.

Two lanes on Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge, officially known as the July 15 Martyrs Bridge, were closed to traffic on June 12 for maintenance, causing chaos to the city's already congested traffic.

A police officer in the southern town on Nis on Thursday morning drove into a group of children on their way to school.

The officer, 30-year-old M.K., caused the traffic accident at around 07:00 hours CET on a crosswalk at the corner of Tsar Konstantin Blvd. and Nisavska St.

Traffic measures will be in effect from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Monday on the Ionia Odos highway, running down the country's western coast from Ioannina to the northern Peloponnese town of Pyrgos.

The northbound section of the highway will be closed to all vehicles, as will the left lane of the southbound section.

A serious traffic is expected on the main roads in Bulgaria today - on the last holiday day after St. George's Day, reported Dnevnik.

The traffic will eventually be heavier than on the May 1 because many Bulgarian people merged the two vacations together. The traffic police forces and the Traffic Infrastructure Agency organized the traffic so as to be easier.