Improving information sharing between the Situation Centre of the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA), the National Toll Administration and the National Coordination Centre for Safe Road Traffic at the Interior Ministry, as well as establishing clear response protocols, were the key topics discussed at a meeting held at the Transport and Communications Ministry on Wednesday, the press office of the Ministry announced.
Transport and Communications Minister Georgi Peev cut short his participation in the COP31 conference in Antalya, Turkiye, and convened an emergency meeting of the expert group responsible for the road safety reform, following two major multi-vehicle pile-ups that occurred on Tuesday in dense fog on the Trakia Motorway, near the Zimnitsa junction, close to Yambol. The crashes claimed 11 lives, left nearly 50 people injured and involved a total of 86 vehicles.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministries of Interior, Regional Development and Public Works, Health, Justice, and Education and Science, as well as the State Road Safety Agency, the Financial Supervision Commission, the Customs Agency, the Road Infrastructure Agency and the National Toll Administration.
Discussions highlighted significant shortcomings in the coordination between institutions to date, as well as the lack of automated mechanisms for responding before critical situations arise, according to the Transport Ministry’s statement.
Minister Peev stressed that institutions must stop working in isolation and establish instead a functional and effective system of cooperation.
“The road safety system has its own rules. The most dangerous thing in a situation like this is to have information but not know what to do with it. That is worse than having no information at all,” Peev said.
Over the next seven days, the heads of the operations centres at the Road Infrastructure Agency, the Interior Ministry and the National Toll Administration are expected to clarify what data is available to each institution, align their communication channels, define their respective roles and responsibilities, and establish clear response protocols.
The aim is to ensure that preventive and timely action is taken in the event of adverse weather conditions, such as fog, snowfall and strong winds, or other disruptions to road traffic, rather than waiting until emergency calls are received through the 112 system.
To achieve these objectives, the existing regulatory framework will be reviewed, and orders will be issued to delegate greater operational authority to on-duty teams. Decision-making and approval procedures also need to be streamlined so that staff on duty can respond promptly on the ground without unnecessary administrative hurdles, Peev added, as quoted in the Ministry’s statement.
The authorities are also considering tighter oversight of regional road management units and the companies responsible for road maintenance.
Within the following week, the institutions concerned are expected to submit concrete proposals for improving data-sharing, introducing standardized response protocols and establishing a clear allocation of responsibilities between the relevant authorities, the Ministry added.

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