Urban environment and safe urban mobility; road traffic safety training; marking and signalling; use of seat belts and child seats – these are the four strategic themes included in road traffic safety policies in 2020. They were presented and discussed at a meeting of the State Public Consultative Committee on Road Safety, chaired by Malina…
State Agency Road Safety Deputy Chair Anjelina Toteva took part in the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. It is one of the highest forums where representatives of countries, together with academia and NGOs, discuss coordinated action to improve road traffic safety. Nearly 1,700 delegates from 140 countries attended the two-day conference. Conference…
Today, State Agency Road Safety Chairperson Malina Kroumova, together with State Agency for Child Protection Chairperson Eleonora Lilova, launched an exhibition of children’s posters on road traffic safety at the Largo of Sofia. The event also awarded the winners of the Protect Your Family on the Road! National Poster Contest. “The biggest number of road…
Children and young people from all over the country took part in the “Protect Your Family on the Road!” National Poster Contest. The joint initiative of State Agency “Road Safety” and the State Agency for Child Protection aims to increase the awareness of teenagers toward road safety issues. Overall, 33 children and young people sent…
A campaign to increase drivers’ and pedestrians’ awareness toward road safety took place today at three risk crossings in Kardzhali. Near three schools, “Hristo Botev”, “Yordan Yovkov” and “Otets Paisii”, youth pedestrian patrols provided information about safe traffic. To attract people’s attention to their initiative, all volunteers wore reflective jackets. The campaign was also attended…
The Council of Ministers has approved the 2019 Report on the State of Road Traffic Safety in the Republic of Bulgaria. Measures to limit road traffic injuries in 2020 have also been approved. The Chair of State Agency “Road Safety” provides to the Council of Ministers, at least once a year, information on the…
Road safety knowledge should be tested in the 7th grade. This is one of the proposals under discussion to improve training at a very early age, Chair of State Agency “Road Safety” (SARS) Malina Kroumova announced during the “Drive smart, get there alive” discussion organized by 24 Hours newspaper. Discussion participants included also Interior Minister…
