Five people lost their lives in a brutal accident between two cars on the Pleven-Lovech road in Bulgaria on Saturday, July 16.
The head-on collision occurred in the afternoon, and the road has been closed since then.
Two one-year-old infants are also among the deceased.
According to the sources, both the cars have Pleven registration – an Opel with a 31-year-old driver and a Volkswagen Golf, driven by a 60-year-old man.
In the one car travelling in the direction of Lovech, there was a family – father, mother, child and grandmother. They were going to the Troyan monastery to baptize the child. Among these four, only the mother survived the accident.
The other car had a grandmother, grandfather and their grandson. They were travelling in the direction of Pleven and were coming back from a swimming pool.
Only the 51-year-old woman survived from this car. Most probably, it was this car driven by the man that generated the accident.
The Road Infrastructure Agency reported that traffic on the road II-35 Pleven-Lovech, around 18 km in the area of the village of Brestovets, had been restricted temporarily from both directions because of a road accident. Traffic is diverted through a bypass route, via Brestovets – Todorovo – Gortalovo – Beglezh – Katunets – Radyuvene – Lovech and vice versa.
On the other hand, a peaceful vigil was held on the evening of Saturday in Sofia city at the ‘European Union’ metro station in memory of the deceased of the road war.
The event was held on social networks by fellow students of 26-year-old Hristina Dileva, one of the two deceased in the severe accident that took place at the same location on the evening of July 5 on Cherni Vrah Boulevard. A 35-year-old Georgi Semerdzhiev is blamed for the death of the two women.