A 71-year-old Belgian who lives in Ravda is in Burgas's Heart and Brain hospital with a broken neck vertebra, nose, right eye socket and right sinus after falling off an electric scooter, Burgas regional police said.
The accident happened on Friday, 6 November, at about 6:10pm at 10 Otets Paisiy Street. Police say the man lost control because he was going too fast for the road conditions, and fell onto the road.
Of the five road accidents in Burgas region on Friday, the one in Ravda was the most serious. Police gave details of three of them, in which only one vehicle was involved and the driver lost control.
At about 10:08am a Volvo tractor unit with a semi-trailer, registered in Burgas, rolled into a roadside ditch. Police say the 28-year-old driver from Burgas lost control as he took a left bend on the road from the junction for Checkpoint 5 of Lukoil Neftochim Burgas towards the village of Svoboda, and left the road.
The driver has a chest bruise and was taken to the Heart and Brain hospital, but his life is not in danger. Police report no other injured.
In the evening, at about 7:13pm, a 19-year-old driver from the Burgas-area village of Cherni Vrah crashed his Peugeot 407 into a roadside tree at km 207 of the Varna-Burgas main road, in Nesebar municipality. The car has Burgas plates and was heading to Burgas. Police give the same cause for this crash: speed that did not suit the road conditions.
On 2 November we reported that in 2025 the University Hospital in Burgas treated 38 people with head injuries after falls from electric scooters. Thirteen of them had surgery, and four were admitted to intensive care.
The driver's 18-year-old passenger, also from Cherni Vrah, was hurt too. He has minor general injuries. Doctors examined him at the Heart and Brain hospital and sent him home for treatment.