The Trakia motorway has reopened in both directions after last night's serious crash, and traffic is moving normally. There is fog on the road again, though.

"The ambulances, which were alerted as soon as the call came in on 112, arrived within 10 minutes," Yambol regional governor Georgi Chalakov told BNT.

Police reached the scene within a few minutes, helped the injured and directed traffic so the ambulances could get through.

Crews and equipment from three regions, Sliven, Yambol and Burgas, worked at the scene. All the injured were brought out within an hour to an hour and a half and taken to hospitals in the three regions.

Chalakov said the teams acted in a coordinated way and as an emergency, and that all his colleagues reacted fast enough. He said everything went as it should during the night.

The carriageway towards Sofia reopened between 1:00am and 1:30am. Two hours later, traffic began to move towards Burgas too.

Because of the fog and bad weather, the governor asked drivers to slow down. "The fog season is starting, and I call on drivers to take the weather into account," he told BNT.

Chalakov does not know whether the stretch will be closed again for a second inspection.

The regional administration is in constant contact with the Road Infrastructure Agency about making the motorway safer. The agency will make the proposals and they will be carried out, and the region will help in any way it can, the governor said.