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Three persons have died in a traffic accident that happened at around 23:00 hours CET Thursday on the Banatsko Novo Selo-Vladimirovac road in northern Serbia.

As of Friday morning, only one victim, whose initials are M.D., has been identified. All three victims were traveling in a German license plates Volkswagen Touareg that collided with an excavator.

A 22-year-old British citizen has been ordered to pay around EUR 1,600 in local currency for driving without a license at 244 kilometers per hour.

The man was driving a British license plates BMW when he was stopped on the Bregana-Zagreb-Lipovac highway late on Sunday, Hina is reporting.

Serbian Customs officers late on Wednesday prevented two attempts to smuggle nearly EUR 200,000 in cash illegally out of the country.

The first case happened on the border crossing Gradina with Bulgria, in the east, when two Turkish citizens in an Austrian number plates BMW X6 said they had only EUR 1,500 in cash to declare - but were found in possession of a total of EUR 165,000.

The fear of being targeted by terrorists has forced some foreign embassy staff in Greece to change the traditional blue license plates on their vehicles that mark them out as belonging to diplomats in favor of regular ones used by the local population.

Motorists who have had their license plates confiscated by the Athens Municipal Police for minor infringements will be able to retrieve them ahead of the Easter holidays, a measure aimed at facilitating holidaymakers over the long weekend.

14 illegal migrants were discovered during an inspection of a cargo vehicle in Burgas. The truck was with a Sofia registration plate and was driven by a 37-year-old man, from the capital city and known by the police, BNR reported.

 A total of 14 male illegal migrants were on the truck who said they were Afghani and Pakistani citizens.

Two persons from Prizaren, a town in Kosovo, have been arrested on Serbia's northern border with Hungary on suspicion that they trafficked drugs.

The police announced on Tuesday that the pair was caught transporting over 13 kilograms of marijuana in a Slovenian license plates car.

Turkey's economy lost 75 million Turkish Liras last year because vehicles with foreign license plates failed to pay traffic fines, the chairman of the executive board of Istanbul-based International Transporters Association (UND) has said.

In the two-month period up to January 9, 122,000 vehicle owners submitted their license plates, making for a significant loss of state revenues amounting to some 50-60 million euros, given that these are mostly vehicles with big engines and therefore high road taxes.

The registration plates of 30 vehicles have been taken off on the first day alone after the new harsher penalties stipulated in amendments to the Road Traffic Act entered into force, announced on bTV the deputy from the Reformist Bloc Nastimir Ananiev, who is also chairman of the Parliamentary Transport Committee.