Road transport

Elsa Harris, aged 45, peeled a banana at home and decided to eat it while struck in a traffic jam. Waiting in traffic she took her hands off the wheel to move the last bit of skin when she was swiftly pulled over by the police.

A traffic police officer shot a minibus driver in the leg after a quarrel over writing a traffic ticket escalated in Istanbul's Maltepe district on June 25.

A traffic police officer stopped a minibus in Maltepe and wrote a ticket for permitting too many passengers onto the minibus. 

A passenger was injured when a metrobus crashed into a construction container on Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge.

The metrobus driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle right after passing the Bosphorus Bridge toll booths. It only stopped when it crashed into a container on the road.

The injured passenger has been taken to a hospital.

Asphalt is now being laid on the Struma motorway section between Sandanski and Kulata, whose completion has been repeatedly delayed.

The 15-kilometer motorway section is being built by Greek construction company Aktor.

The city center of an Aegean island just off the Dardanelles will be closed to car traffic in the summer season to improve the living standards of the island's residents and tourists, according to a decision met by the district traffic commission.

Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has vowed that repair works at roads leading to the Black Sea coast will stop on July 1 in order to ease traffic during the peak of the summer season.

On June 7, an 8.6-km section of the right lane of the Maritsa motorway section connecting Svilengrad and Kapitan Andreevo will open for traffic.

The project was implemented with funding from the state budget under the New Construction program of Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency.

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.

A section of Bulgaria's Maritsa motorway linking Harmanli and Dimitrovgrad was officially opened on Thursday, bTV station reported.

The second lot of Bulgaria's Maritsa Motorway, covering the section between the town of Dimtrovgrad and the border checkpoint Kapitan Andreevo, will be fully completed by the end of May.