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Tragic Monday on Polish roads with 14 killed in crashes

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Polish police reported that 14 people died in car accidents on Monday, making it deadliest day of the Easter holidays.

PM announces stiffer fines for road pirates

Poland's prime minister on Monday announced new traffic laws introducing stiffer fines for traffic offenders and new compensation instruments for road accident victims.

Annual costs of road accidents still high in Poland

Annual costs of road crashes in Poland reached 2.7 percent of GDP in 2018, down from 3 percent three years earlier, according to the National Road Safety Council data.

Five killed in Ukrainian bus crash in Poland

The driver of an Ukrainian bus that crashed on Saturday in south-eastern Poland has been charged with unintentionally causing a land traffic disaster.

Five dead after Polish bus crashes in Germany

Five people died on Tuesday night in an accident involving a Polish bus on the A1 motorway close to Oldenburg, north-west Germany, German media has reported.

Two seriously hurt in helicopter crash

Two people were hospitalised with serious injuries after their Robinson R44 light helicopter crashed into the Vistula river near Sady, outside Warsaw, at about 14:00 on Thursday, the local fire chief informed PAP.

One dead, 24 hospitalised in Polish coach crash in Hungary

One person was killed and 24 hospitalised, including three seriously injured, when a coach carrying Polish tourists crashed on a motorway outside Kiskunfelegyhaza in Hungary early on Sunday morning, Hungarian National Ambulance Service spokesman Pal Gyoerfi reported.

Dutch cyclist in serious condition after Polish race crash

Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen, who suffered an accident at the end of the first stage of the 77th Tour de Pologne bicycle race, is in a chemically-induced coma and his condition is described as serious, the race's press office has informed PAP.

Driver of Warsaw's fatal bus crash charged over drugs

The driver of a city bus that plunged off an overpass in Warsaw, killing one person and injuring over a dozen, has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs, prosecutors said on Friday.

Bus plunges from Warsaw bridge

A Warsaw city bus has crashed off the Grota-Roweckiego bridge in northern Warsaw down to a multi-lane north-south transit route along the Vistula River.

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