The Trakia highway is in first place in accidents for the first 5 months of 2024. According to the data of the Ministry of the Interior, half of the accidents on the highways in our country took place there.
By May, 282 out of a total of 600 accidents had occurred. 57 people were injured and three died.
Since the beginning of summer, the highway has been one of the busiest and most dangerous road sections with the most serious accidents and serious traffic jams.
Since the beginning of August alone, there have been over 30 road accidents there, and traffic jams are a daily occurrence.
On August 12, a chain accident and a kilometer-long queue formed shortly before Burgas, and on August 11, another incident with injured people hindered traffic.
The situation was similar for the previous three days. On August 6, traffic to Sofia was even blocked due to a serious accident.
There is almost no section of the highway without bent or even missing guardrails, writes bTV.
In order to ease the traffic in the event of accidents, some countries dismantle the guardrails so that cars can move in both directions in the oncoming traffic.
Is it possible to introduce such a measure in our country?
“It will not work in Bulgaria for several reasons – the bad culture of the drivers, the poorly built infrastructure. You can see for yourself here how big the grass is. Thirdly, there is no investment in such systems. In general, if you do this thing without creating the right organization, much bigger catastrophes can be caused,” said Diana Rusinova from the European Center for Transport Policy.
The road agency clarified that the incidents in recent weeks are not the fault of the infrastructure. They added that the dismantling of guardrails had been used before.
“In recent road accidents, such a measure was not applied with a view to restoring traffic and the safety of travelers in the shortest possible time,” the API states.
The road agency indicated that a road safety analysis of part of the highway was carried out in July and they have guidelines for easing traffic.
In terms of number of accidents, the “Hemus” highway ranks after the Trakia highway with 180 accidents and 32 injuries.
There were over 100 road accidents on the “Struma” highway, 28 – on “Maritsa” and two on “Black Sea” from January to May.
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