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Experts draft legislative changes for harsher punishment of traffic offenders

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An expert group of magistrates and university lecturers is beginning a review of the legislation connected with traffic offenders. The aim is to draft legislative changes for harsher punishment for drivers who break traffic rules.

“The institutions are part of the problem of traffic offenders, the other is society,” Nastimir Ananiev, MP from We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB) said in an interview with the BNR, and went on that when we see someone has been drinking we must take their car keys and get them a taxi.

Members of the people will once again be staging a protest after a 15-year old boy was run over and killed on a pedestrian crossing in the centre of Sofia, to demand more stringent control on the roa


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