A Burgas doctor seriously injured in the pile-up on the Trakia motorway early on 10 November is conscious and not in immediate danger of dying, according to the latest information on his condition.

Dozens of vehicles crashed into one another one after another on the carriageway towards Burgas. Some of those involved were trapped in their cars.

The injured man is 37 and works as an infectious diseases specialist at St Anastasia Children's Hospital in Burgas. He was driving to the city, and his car was among those in the crash. He has fractures and serious damage to his musculoskeletal system, as well as other injuries.

He was taken to Burgas, where a team at the Heart and Brain hospital treated him. Prof Asen Baltov operated on him personally.

Baltov is one of the best-known orthopaedic trauma surgeons in Bulgaria. He once ran Pirogov, the country's largest emergency hospital, and now heads the orthopaedics and traumatology department at the Heart and Brain hospital complex in Burgas.