Traffic

BELGRADE - Serbia annually loses nearly 4 percent of its GDP due to damages caused by traffic accidents, said Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic who is also the minister of construction, transport and infrastructure.

Bulgarian road carriers have backtracked on their threat to block Sofia's exits after the authorities agreed to relax a planned expansion of restrictions on traffic.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry will spend over BGN 53 M, VAT included, on traffic surveillance.

Some BGN 39.5 M of the total will be spent on buying fixed road safety cameras and building a unified center for processing traffic violations in Sofia, according to reports of Pressa daily.

Death toll on Bulgarian roads is growing again, after a 4-5-year period of drastic decline, according to Aleksi Stratiev, former head of the Traffic Police.

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of fatal traffic accidents in 2014, compared to the death rates in 2012, Stratiev told Nova TV.

BELGRADE - Minimum control procedures are being implemented at border crossings in Serbia so as to minimise delays and ensure accelerated pace for vehicles traffic, members of the border police told Tanjug.

During the weekend security police will take extra measures for improving road safety on the major roads and highways across Bulgaria, said the Interior Ministry. 

The reason is the expected increase in traffic between the Kalotina – Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoints and along the Ruse-Sofia-Kulata roads. 

A nearly 7-km-long traffic jam has clogged the roads between Bulgaria's Black Sea towns of Pomorie and Aheloy on Friday afternoon.

It takes as long as an hour to travel the distance, Bulgaria's National Radio (BNR) reports. Kilometers-long traffic jam was also generated in the opposite direction - from Sunny Beach resort to Aheloy.

A truck carrying cement rolled and tipped over on Istanbul’s TEM highway early July 4, turning the city’s morning commute into traffic chaos.

The accident occurred at around 7 a.m. in the city’s Bağcılar district as two lanes were closed, causing a traffic jam that stretched across the European side of the metropolis.

ROME - Serbian Police Director Milorad Veljovic is attending an International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) in Rome that the Italian central directorate for anti-drug services is organizing with the support of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States.

The main topic of the conference is the seizure of the criminal assets gained through drug trafficking.

Killer drivers to be stopped

After horrific accident in Novi Sad in which three students got killed and brutal accident in which a girl from Nis lost her life, it is necessary to urgently adopt new more severe sentences against hooligans in traffic.