Nine investigators are expected to arrive at the Trakia Motorway, where the pile-up crashes occurred, Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev told a media briefing at the scene of the accidents.
Both the road markings and the asphalt will be examined. According to the Minister, there are multiple factors that may have contributed to the accidents.
At least 11 people were killed and nearly 50 injured in two major pile-ups that occurred Tuesday morning in dense fog on the Trakia Motorway near the Zimnitsa road junction in Yambol Region. According to data from the Ministry of Health, as of 11:30 am, 10 people had died at the scene and one had died in hospital in Yambol. A total of 46 people have been admitted to hospitals in Sliven, Yambol and Burgas.
“What is clear is that visibility before the accidents was 70-80 metres. The fog thickened sharply and vehicles travelling in the carriageway towards Burgas piled up extremely quickly. On the opposite carriageway, the most likely cause of the crash was the slowing down of vehicles whose drivers reduced their speed to see what was happening,” Demerdzhiev said.
He added that police officers had to carry injured people out by hand on stretchers because there was no access to the centre of the accident scenes. “As soon as the National Investigation Service (NIS) completes its on-site inspection, we are ready to begin clearing the motorway,” the Interior Minister said.
There is no connection between the cameras operated by the Road Infrastructure Agency and traffic police officers. There are also no electronic information boards that can be installed on overhead gantries to provide up-to-date information to motorists. “We have plans to install this equipment by next year,” the Minister said, adding that there was no reason to blame the Traffic Police.
“As a society, we need to learn how to respond to a tragedy of this kind,” he said, adding that such political point-scoring was a sign of weakness and poor judgement.
“These facilities are a priority for us. The question arises as to why those who diverted funds intended for crash barriers and road markings did not allocate money for these information boards earlier,” Demerdzhiev said.
“When there is no exchange of information and no warning about dangerous conditions, the Traffic Police have no way of knowing about them. This is what we are working on at the moment,” the Minister said.

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