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Probe opened on Bulgaria highway in connection to 2021 deadly bus crash: lawyer 

Probe opened on Bulgaria highway in connection to 2021 deadly bus crash: lawyer 
Sofia, 25 August 2022 (MIA) - A probe at the scene has been already launched, Nikolay Dimitrov, a lawyer representing some of the families of the victims and injured passengers in the November 2021 bus crash on Struma highway in Bulgaria, has told MIA. A team of experts has opened a probe three kilometers from the bus crash and the goal is to determine whether there are cause and effect circumstances that led to the accident, MIA's Sofia correspondent reports. The area of the road, signs and road signs as well as all other elements that could pinpoint where the accident had happened are inspected. The probe will show what was missing on this section of the Struma highway and whether this exact shortcoming is the main cause of the accident, the lawyer told MIA. Dimitrov said that the families of his clients also want to know if the killed driver was the only one to blame for the crush or whether there was another circumstance that had led to the deadly accident. They also want to know what happened to the personal belongings of the victims, including gold jewelry they had been wearing, which has not been returned to them yet nor have been registered by the Bulgarian authorities. The families of the fatalities and the survivors from the bus accident in Bulgaria demand a parallel investigation to establish the cause of the tragedy that claimed the lives of 45 passengers and seven were injured. According to investigation findings released in December, the main cause for the road accident of the Besa Trans bus carrying Macedonian tourists returning to the capital Skopje from a weekend holiday trip from Istanbul was the speed unadjusted to the road conditions.