A 59-year-old driver from Karnobat died at the scene of a head-on crash on the Sofia–Karnobat–Aytos road on Monday, 19 October, Burgas regional police (ODMVR) said. The other driver, a 67-year-old man from Yambol, is in intensive care at the Heart and Brain hospital, and his life is in danger.

The crash happened at about 5.47pm at km 454+300. Police say the Karnobat man was driving a Skoda Fabia with Burgas plates when he lost control, drifted into the oncoming lane and hit a Peugeot 307 with Yambol plates head-on.

The Peugeot then hit a Volkswagen Caravelle with Turkish plates. No one in the Volkswagen was hurt. Its driver is a 55-year-old man with dual citizenship from the village of Daskotna.

The Yambol man has multiple injuries. Doctors at the emergency unit in Karnobat also examined his wife, 66, from Yambol. They found a bruised arm, a missing tooth and a fast pulse, and sent her home for treatment.

Alcohol and drug tests on the drivers of the Peugeot and the Volkswagen were negative. Pre-trial proceedings have begun.

In the past 24 hours, Burgas regional police recorded 2 thefts, 2 other crimes and 2 road accidents. Officers opened 3 fast-track cases and solved 5 crimes.

Police in Karnobat have detained a 29-year-old local man. They say that over two days he drove off from a petrol station without paying for fuel and stole from another station and from a courier van. He can be held for up to 24 hours.

At about 3.10pm on 18 October, he filled up with €25.05 of petrol at the LUKOIL B 172 station in the Vazrazhdane district and left without paying. His car is an Opel with no number plates.

At about 2.15am on 19 October, he took goods worth about €380 from the Si-Komers petrol station on Moskva boulevard. They were gas bottles, AdBlue, engine oil in one-litre bottles, windscreen washer fluid and cans of brake fluid. He also took empty fuel cans and filled them with petrol.

The same morning, at about 6.43am, he took nearly 30 courier parcels and a mobile barcode scanner from a Volkswagen Crafter cargo van with Ruse plates. The van belongs to a private freight company.

The same day, at about 2.51am, a Setra bus with Dobrich plates hit an 80-year-old man from the Karnobat-area village of Zhitosvyat. It happened on the Sofia–Burgas road, past checkpoint 1, opposite the Metro store.

The bus driver is a 67-year-old man from Burgas. He hit the pedestrian with the front right of the bus. Police say the man was crossing the road illegally, over the guardrail. He was taken to the Heart and Brain hospital with a broken shoulder blade, but his life is not in danger. The driver's alcohol and drug tests were negative.

At about 3pm on 19 October, officers from the Fourth district police department in Burgas checked a BMW 435d with foreign plates opposite block 15 in the Meden Rudnik complex. The driver, a 48-year-old man from Burgas, had taken cocaine before driving. Police held him for up to 24 hours and opened a fast-track case.

On the evening of 19 October, we reported that the road was fully closed, with a detour between the turn-offs for the villages of Sokolovo and Klikach. On 10 October, two drivers died in a head-on crash on the Karnobat–Aytos–Burgas road: a 43-year-old man from Aytos and a 30-year-old woman from Burgas.

Police in Kameno have found out who destroyed and damaged the table football tables in the yard of the Hristo Botev school. They are boys aged 13, 16 and 17 from Kameno, who fully admitted it. Their parents paid for the damage, €264.