Woman Got Injured after Stumbling in the New Limiters of "Graf Ignatiev"

A woman was injured yesterday after having tripped to one of the limiters along the tram lines in the repair of the Sofia Graf Ignatiev Street, bTV said. Warnings that granite blocks are dangerous for pedestrians have emerged when they were installed.

At the fall, the woman struck her head, and blood flowed from her nose. An Emergency Assistance team was called for first aid to the injured person. She was examined at Pirogov and returned to her home, bTV says.

In front of the TV station from Sofia Municipality explained that the limiters were installed on the request of "Road Police". "Granite stops, installed on Graf Ignatiev Street, are approved by the State Acceptance Commission, and no replacement is planned at this stage," commented designer Radomira Metodieva, quoted by BBC.

Nowadays, security blocks that have been on the street have replaced similar ones in December. The repair of Graf Ignatiev, which began on May 7, continues at the moment, although the deadline for its completion was until the beginning of October. The last forecast is that it will be completed in the summer.

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