Traffic Police

The traffic at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is intense. A 5 km queue of trucks has formed at the exit of "Kapitan Andreevo" border checkpoint, reported Traffic Police.

At "Lesovo" checkpoint there is a 1 km queue, at the exit from Bulgaria as well.

At all the border checkpoints with Serbia, The Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Romania the traffic is regular.

A 1.5 km queue of trucks has formed at the exit of "Kapitan Andreevo" border checkpoint, reported Traffic Police.

The traffic at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is intense.

At all the border checkpoints with Serbia, The Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Romania the traffic is regular.

Traffic will be disrupted in downtown Athens on Friday and Saturday to make way for celebrations marking the March 25 anniversary of Greek independence from Turkish rule in 1821.

Students all over the country will be holding parades on Friday, followed by a parade of the armed forces on Saturday centered around Syntagma Square.

More than 10,000 traffic violations have been sanctioned during the holidays, mostly speeding, driving under the influence, and failure to wear a seat belt.

This is according to Aleksandar Radenkovic of the Traffic Police, who added that approximately 500 drunk drivers were discovered over this period and excluded from traffic.

Traffic police will remove the license plates of cars of drivers caught drunk, on drugs, without a driving license or if they refuse to give a breath sample.

The purpose of this measure is to prevent drivers from using the vehicle again.

The strict sanctions were adopted at second reading by the parliamentary Transport Commission.

Traffic police are to divert motorists from several central roads in Athens on Saturday afternoon as thousands of runners join the Acropolis Night Run, a 5-kilometer mini-marathon, which starts outside the Acropolis Museum at 6.30 p.m.

The run will cover much of the capital's historic district and end where it started.

Traffic police in Katerini, northern Greece, were on Saturday questioning a 68-year-old motorist who veered off the national highway linking Katerini to Elassona on Friday night, killing a 7-year-old Syrian refugee and injuring the girl's 28-year-old mother and 8-year-old sister.

The family had been walking along the roadside close to a reception center for refugees.

The initial estimates of traffic police officers that Pantelis Pantelidis was driving the car were confirmed on Wednesday after DNA test results were released.

According to the results, the famous singer was the person behind the wheel, while 21-year-old Frosso Kyriakou was sitting at the front seat and Mina Arnaouti at the back seat.

Traffic police of Elliniko has received the results of blood and toxicology tests of popular singer Pantelis Pantelidis who died tragically when his car crashed onto the road barriers, as well as the report written by Fire Service.

A strong presence of police was recorded early in the morning at the gate of the former military camp Anagnostopoulou, in Diavata, Thessaloniki, causing the immediate mobilization of the municipal authority and the local people.