Traffic law

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.

A minivan slammed into pedestrians early Tuesday on a street where people had gathered for New Year's festivities in downtown Tokyo, injuring eight people, police said.

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.

Intense traffic on Bulgaria's main roads is expected ahead of the Christmas holidays. The busiest traffic is expected to be at the exits of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

More than 300,000 cars are expected to leave the capital.

The speed limit on highways, which is currently 120 kilometers per hour, will increase to 125 km/h, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Nov. 18.

Lithuania's phone-addicted pedestrians will have to do without mobile devices when they cross streets under a new regulation approved on Wednesday as the Baltic country seeks to curb traffic deaths.

"Pedestrians must not use mobile devices before stepping onto the street or walking across it," Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis told a cabinet meeting that was broadcast live.

Greek police recorded 122 traffic code violations in 511 school buses during checks ahead of the start of the new school year, according to a press release on Tuesday.

Drivers in Greece aged 74 years old and above will have to renew their licenses to prove that they still have the knowledge and reflexes to drive safely.

Twenty people were killed and 425 were injured in 363 road accidents in Attica alone last month, according to the official data from the region's traffic police. 

Of those injured, 13 suffered serious trauma, while the rest were hurt lightly.

Sofia. Legislative changes to regulate new obligations are needed in order to improve safety on the roads, traffic safety expert Aleksi Stratiev told Focus Radio. In his words, experts will need time to analyse the legislation related to traffic safety, as each law comprises dozens of regulations.