One killed, 12 injured as minibus and truck crash in Tbilisi
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One passenger has been killed and 12 others injured as a minibus and a truck collided in Tbilisi earlier today, IPN reports citing the Georgian Interior Ministry.
The agency says that the accident took place on the outskirts of Tbilisi, near Tbilisi International Airport.
Police are investigating the case.
3,764 road accidents have been reported in Georgia between January and August 2019, with 314 killed and 5,212 injured.
6,608 individuals have been killed and up to 85,946 received injuries in Georgia in road accidents over the past ten years
Tbilisi residents awoke to a strange sight on the roads today: destroyed cars mounted upside down on posts at several locations across the city.
22,590 pedestrians have been fined in Tbilisi between January and September 2019 for violating traffic rules while the figure was 12,685 in the same period of last year, the Georgian Interior Ministry told IPN news agency.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs is launching the second stage of its road safety campaign “For more Life” starting today, said Georgian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Nino Javakhadze today.
6,608 individuals have been killed and up to 85,946 received injuries in Georgia in road accidents over the past ten years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says.
Five minors, 17-year-old boys, have died in a road accident in the Mtirala Park of Adjara region, in western Georgia earlier today.
One individual has been killed and 22 received injuries in a road accident in Turkey involving a bus passengers on Tbilisi-Istanbul route, Rustavi 2 has reported earlier today.
One person is dead after a public bus crashed into a tree in Avlabari district, Tbilisi earlier today.
A five year old boy died in the village of Kvakhchiri, Terjola municipality, west Georgia by accidental shooting.
5,839 road accidents were reported across Georgia in 2019, with 481 killed and 7,921 injured, the Georgian Alliance for Safe Roads says based on the Georgian Interior Ministry. The NGO reports that compared to 2018 the number of those killed has increased by five per cent, while the number of road accidents decreased 9.5 per cent and the number of injured also decreased by 12 per cent.
4,999 road accidents were reported in Georgia in 2020, with 450 killed and 6,640 injured, the Georgian National Statistics Office has reported based on the data of the Interior Ministry.