Road safety

Traffic police around the country issued 5,097 fines for drink driving and speeding violations between March 11 and 17.

As part of its "Violation of the Week" program, traffic police unleashed 1,245 crews on the streets who checked a total of 24,330 vehicles.

Most of the violations were recorded in Attica (764) followed by Thessaloniki (396).

Two companies applied for the construction of an intelligent transport system on the Trakia highway. The value of the order is over 7 million BGN without VAT.

Hundreds of motorists aged 74 and over face the prospect of being left without a license due to an absence of specific guidelines in the updated traffic code passed last March.

Checks will continue until February 24th, reported Nova TV. 

From 24 February to 24 February there will be a traffic police operation for the control of trucks and buses. It is part of the TISPOL calendar - the European Traffic Police Network - and similar action takes place in the territory of all Member States.

A public bus driver in Turkey's southern province of Adana has been fined and given penalty points for playing a game on his mobile phone while driving, İhlas News Agency has reported.

The incident came to light after a passenger on the bus recorded the 34-year-old Orhan Can playing Okey -- a very popular tile-based game in Turkey -- on video.

The probability of getting into a road crash in Austria is 9 times greater than in Denmark. This is a study by the European Commission, published by the British Daily Mail.

SPAIN will tomorrow (January 29) officially lower the speed limit on secondary roads from 100kph to 90kph, writes euroweeklynews.com

The Council of Ministers had approved the measure, which is designed to cut the death toll from road accidents, earlier this month.

In a bid to curb highway code violations over the holiday period, the Traffic Police intensified inspections on motorists over the past two weeks.

A total of 866 traffic police units operated around the country between December 31 and January 6, checking 18,360 vehicles and recording a total of 2,397 violations.

163 snow cleaning machines worked this night in the capital, announced the press center of Sofia Municipality.

Processed with anti-icing mixtures are all the streets where mass public transport is going and all central streets.

It has come to the attention of residents of the Greek capital that municipal police officers have recently embarked on an avid campaign to crack down on traffic violations, removing, in the process, an excessively large number of car license plates.