Traffic Police

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Heavy rain, low temperatures, strong winds and snowfall in mountainous areas were being observed across Greece on Thursday, as the country prepared for the Greek Orthodox Easter weekend.

4 Bulgarian nationals seriously injured

SUBOTICA -- Four citizens of Bulgaria have been seriously injured while nine more received light injuries in a traffic accident that took place late on Wednesday.

The crash occured at 23:30 CET near Backa Topola in northern Serbia and involved a Bulgarian license plates bus.

The Vale of Tempe section of the Athens-Thessaloniki national road in central Greece will be closed from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next three days due to maintenance work.

Between Monday and Wednesday, engineers will be carrying out work to protect drivers from rockfalls in the area. Traffic police will be diverting vehicles via alternative routes while the work is carried out.

Pedestrians in Bulgaria are nearly twice as careless compared to car drivers, statistical figures have shown.

According to Traffic Police data, almost 10,000 pedestrians have been fined for crossing the street in violation of regulations in the first nine months of the year, while less than 5,800 car drivers have been fined for violating pedestrians' right of way.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov will launch major police raids on the roads countrywide every Friday and Saturday night.

Starting next Friday, some 8,000 police officers will take part in the special police operation. They will inspect all vehicles, focusing on areas near drinking and entertainment establishments, Bulgarian Trud informs.

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.

A major crash oc

Traffic police will be closing off sections of the road network in central Athens on Sunday afternoon to clear the way for participants in the 4-kilometer "Live Well" race, which kicks off at Syntagma Square at 7 p.m.

The event is open to all members of the public, whether they want to run it, walk it, or ride their bicycles.

A resident of Bulgaria's town of Shumen is suing the traffic police for causing him stress and ill health, reports Bulgaria's public broadcaster BNT. 

In 2012 Minko Baev received a speeding fine of BGN 500 for allegedly driving with 131 km/h on a road where the limit was 60 km/h.