Accidents

Two minors drowned after their vehicle plunged off a quay at the port of Mitilene on Lesvos, early on Monday. One of the two victims was driving the car, early reports suggested, while another 3 minors managed to get out of the vehicle.

The incident occurred at around 3.30 a.m. near the old town hall, state agency ANA-MPA reported.

As of Tuesday morning until 15:00 hrs, there were 394 traffic accidents in Sofia, reported the Interior Ministry.

Usually, between 100 and 150 accidents occur over 24 hours.

The ministry pointed out that 4 of the accidents were serious and people have been injured but there are no victims.

According to numbers provided by the police, 2,222 of the traffic accidents in the first nine months of 2016 led to deaths and 137,554 involved injuries.

Turkey saw 307,608 traffic accidents in the first nine months of this year, with 2,172 people killed in those accidents and 234,458 injured.

Two people died while several were injured when a lorry veered off its course and collided against another two lorries and a vehicle in the opposite direction on the Athens-Corinth national highway, late on Wednesday. The accident occurred near Kinetta.

A man was killed in a car accident occurred on Vouliagmenis Avenue at 8:30 on Thursday.

According to preliminary information, two women who were on the car are seriously injured and were transferred to the hospital.

As authorities stated, the driver was driving at a high speed.

A woman and her three children have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas leak at their flat in Istanbul.

The incident took place at night on Jan. 3 when the mother, 36-year-old Hediye Üzümcü, put her three kids to bed near the natural gas heater at home.

The number of road traffic victims in Bulgaria registered an increase in 2015. In this way, the trend which has been established in the past years has been sustained.

This becomes evident from the latest figures of the interior ministry as available of Tuesday, daily Dnevnik informs.

The World Health Organization’s figures:

Two persons died early on Thursday in a traffic accident on the road between Pozarevac and Veliko Gradiste, RTS is reporting.

The driver of a car involved in the crash was injured seriously, but his life is not in danger.

Traffic accidents in the month of March decreased by 13.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), but the number of the people that died on the streets of the country rose by 18.8 percent.