The strong wind in Sliven region today overturned a Turkish TIR on the Sub-Balkan road Sofia – Burgas, BNR reported.
There were no injuries in the incident. On two more TIRs, the wind tore the covers off the trailers. All incidents took place outside the traffic lane and the road was not closed.
The Turkish driver will be fined because turning on the side of the road is a traffic accident. Lutfi Altanai, from Bursa, who is also the owner of the truck. commented that everything happened very quickly.
"There was a very big wind. I was moving. It happened once. My butt came up and I fell here. The truck lay down. It's empty. At 60 km/h I drove".
In Sliven, the hurricane-force wind broke branches, carried sheet metal from roofs and damaged commercial establishments. The shed for shopping carts of a large supermarket in the neighborhood "Bulgarka" was carried several hundred meters in the direction of "Stefan Stambolov" boulevard.
The police reported that a tree fell on a car with no injuries.
The strong wind on the territory of Gabrovo caused an interruption in the electricity supply to several villages in the municipality.
Emergency teams are working to eliminate the accidents.
Broken branches and trees encroaching on the road network are being cleared.
Several billboards in the city were also affected by the gusts of wind.