Sat, Nov 21 2009

There are no fatalities, however 12 people were injured, two of them seriously, and those seriously injured have been admitted to the emergency ward of a Sibiu hospital
In latest fatal accident, driver and passenger die as their car collides head-on with a truck while driving in the oncoming lane.
The crash happened as a government Ford Escort, a Seat with a Blagoevgrad licence plates and a lorry were involved in multiple collisions, leaving two people injured. Eyewitness reports blame the 'manic driving' of the Government convoy
Officers of the traffic police would stop responding to reports of minor car accidents, but they would arrive if there was a suspicion that the driver causing the accident was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the press centre of the Interior Ministry announced on its website on January 30 2009.
As if to demonstrate administrative impotence to react to emergency situations, at the beginning of every year Mother Nature just throws the sky's doors open and there we have it: clean, beautiful, perfectly shaped snowflakes, peacefully falling on half-completed Bulgarian highways, patched secondary roads, long-forgotten third class strips, city streets, pavements...or just getting caught on the tongue of a happy youngster, sliding on a snow-covered park mound.
An eye injury from a firework, a heavy car accident near Ruski Pametnik in Sofia and a few alcohol-related incidents were among the registered cases at the Pirogov emergency hospital in the capital during Bulgaria's New Year's celebrations, Bulgarian news agency BTA said, as quoted by Dnevnik daily on January 1 2009.
Reckless overtaking was a contributory factor in at least two of a series of serious road accidents in Bulgaria during the weekend of December 26 to 28.
More than 30 000 road accidents have been registered in Sofia municipality since the start of 2008, the deputy head of the Road Police Vanyo Stanevski said on October 13, the European Road Safety Day, which runs under the motto "For safe traffic in our city". The number of serious incidents in Sofia since the start of the year was 1200, in which 94 people lost their lives. For the country as a whole, the number of serious road accidents since the beginning of 2008 was 6265, taking the lives of 801 people and injuring 7829, according to the statistics kept by the Interior Ministry.
The European Commission is taking Bulgaria to court for delays in providing Sofia with adequate waste disposal facilities.
James Warlick is the spouse of Mary Warlick, director of the office of Russian affairs at the US state department, who has been nominated to serve as ambassador to Serbia
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
Acting on allegations by Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria leader Ivan Kostov, prosecutors and Government officials are to probe deals by which Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Ahmed Dogan acquired various properties.
Prosecutors allege that a deal agreed by the former defence minister caused losses of 12.9 million leva.