Bulgaria’s road death toll in first four months of 2026 is 127
A total of 127 people died in accidents on Bulgaria’s roads in the first four months of 2026, according to preliminary data posted on May 1 by the Interior Ministry.
The ministry said that this was 16 more road deaths than at the same point in 2025.
From January 1 to April 30, there were 1712 accidents on Bulgaria’s roads in which people died or were seriously injured. Apart from the dead, 2136 people were seriously injured.
In April alone, there 470 accidents on Bulgaria’s roads, leaving 35 dead and 592 people seriously injured.
As The Sofia Globe reported previously, Bulgaria is among five European Union countries on track to meet the target of reducing the annual number of deaths in road accidents by 50 per cent by 2030, but in 2025 had the highest road death rate in the EU, according to preliminary data posted by the European Commission (EC) on March 24.
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