114 result(s) for road accident
Budapest Tests Smart City Application
- 3 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- getting around
GA The application will adjust the street lights to the traffic and to the noise- and street pollution, and will collect data to improve transportation. The test run will start in April 2016 and will end in May 2017, nol.hu reports. Imagine that street lights shine brighter when a car or a pedestrian goes by, and it fades away behind them. Cyclists and pedestrians could choose the shortest and ...
Tanker Accident Causes Oil Spill, Death Of Driver In C Hungary
- 21 Sep 2015 5:06 AM
- current affairs
Oil started spilling from a tanker truck which slipped off the road into a ditch near Százhalombatta, central Hungary, on Monday morning, a spokesman of the local disaster management agency said. The driver of the tanker died in the accident, said Attila Csámpai. The accident happened on the offslip connecting highway 6 with motorway M6. Some 200-300 litres of oil may have spilled onto the road ...
Suspected Migrant Killed In Road Accident Near Hungarian Serbian Border
- 16 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
It was reported that a suspected illegal migrant was killed on Wednesday morning in a road accident on the M5 motorway near Hungary’s border with Serbia. A police spokesman for Csongrád County said that a petrol station near the border station at Röszke was the site of an inspection by officers at around 6am.
Hungarian Daily Népszabadság Editor-In-Chief Resigns Over Accident Leading To Death
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Marcell Murányi, editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest daily Népszabadság, has resigned over a road accident later leading to death. Murányi said he resigned after “learning from press reports that the man hurt in an accident he had been involved in has died.” Business daily Napi Gazdaság said on Wednesday that Murányi drove over a cyclist in central Budapest just after midnight on March 30.
Hungarian Police Step Up ‘Sober Easter’ Checks
- 3 Apr 2015 9:01 AM
- getting around
Police will carry out a nationwide operation called ‘Sober Easter’ from Thursday to Monday to monitor the roads for drunk and erratic driving. National Police head of department József Óberling said during a similar operation last year, some 26,000 checks found 600 drunk drivers, a rate of 2.2%. Alcohol consumption played a part in 10% of the accidents last year, he said.
Hungarian Judge Adjourns Rezesova Case
- 6 May 2014 6:00 AM
- current affairs
A hearing in the case of a fatal 2012 road accident was adjourned on Monday, after Slovak defendant Eva Rezešová Varholíková reported sick. The case, in which Rezešová has already been sentenced to 6 years in jail for 4 counts of manslaughter, is now before an appellate court in Budapest.
Programme Package Of 55 Billion For Transport Security Interventions In Hungary
- 12 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- getting around
State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs of the Ministry of National Development János Fónagy opened the conference “New Decade, New Challenges in Transport Security” in Budapest on 11 December, 2013.
Faster, Safer & More Comfortable Transport Along Reconstructed Section Of M0 In Hungary
- 7 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- getting around
The extension of the southern section of M0 has been the largest-scale investment in recent years, of beyond national significance. The Ministry of National Development will continue mobilising all resources in order to continuously keep raising the standard of public roads in Hungary, Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner said at a press conference held on the achievements related to ...
Miskolc Northern Ring Road In Hungary To Be Completed By Late Spring 2015
- 14 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- getting around
Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner, Member of Parliament of the region Katalin Csöbör and Head of Communications of the National Infrastructure Development Co. Ltd. Dániel Loppert laid the foundation stone of the Miskolc Northern Ring on 13 November 2013. The 2x1 lane stretch of 5.8 km to be funded from the New Széchenyi Plan is to be ready for use by traffic in late spring 2015.
Budapest Tests Smart City Application
- 3 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- getting around
GA The application will adjust the street lights to the traffic and to the noise- and street pollution, and will collect data to improve transportation. The test run will start in April 2016 and will end in May 2017, nol.hu reports. Imagine that street lights shine brighter when a car or a pedestrian goes by, and it fades away behind them. Cyclists and pedestrians could choose the shortest and ...
Tanker Accident Causes Oil Spill, Death Of Driver In C Hungary
- 21 Sep 2015 5:06 AM
- current affairs
Oil started spilling from a tanker truck which slipped off the road into a ditch near Százhalombatta, central Hungary, on Monday morning, a spokesman of the local disaster management agency said. The driver of the tanker died in the accident, said Attila Csámpai. The accident happened on the offslip connecting highway 6 with motorway M6. Some 200-300 litres of oil may have spilled onto the road ...
Suspected Migrant Killed In Road Accident Near Hungarian Serbian Border
- 16 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
It was reported that a suspected illegal migrant was killed on Wednesday morning in a road accident on the M5 motorway near Hungary’s border with Serbia. A police spokesman for Csongrád County said that a petrol station near the border station at Röszke was the site of an inspection by officers at around 6am.
Hungarian Daily Népszabadság Editor-In-Chief Resigns Over Accident Leading To Death
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Marcell Murányi, editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest daily Népszabadság, has resigned over a road accident later leading to death. Murányi said he resigned after “learning from press reports that the man hurt in an accident he had been involved in has died.” Business daily Napi Gazdaság said on Wednesday that Murányi drove over a cyclist in central Budapest just after midnight on March 30.
Hungarian Police Step Up ‘Sober Easter’ Checks
- 3 Apr 2015 9:01 AM
- getting around
Police will carry out a nationwide operation called ‘Sober Easter’ from Thursday to Monday to monitor the roads for drunk and erratic driving. National Police head of department József Óberling said during a similar operation last year, some 26,000 checks found 600 drunk drivers, a rate of 2.2%. Alcohol consumption played a part in 10% of the accidents last year, he said.
Hungarian Judge Adjourns Rezesova Case
- 6 May 2014 6:00 AM
- current affairs
A hearing in the case of a fatal 2012 road accident was adjourned on Monday, after Slovak defendant Eva Rezešová Varholíková reported sick. The case, in which Rezešová has already been sentenced to 6 years in jail for 4 counts of manslaughter, is now before an appellate court in Budapest.
Programme Package Of 55 Billion For Transport Security Interventions In Hungary
- 12 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- getting around
State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs of the Ministry of National Development János Fónagy opened the conference “New Decade, New Challenges in Transport Security” in Budapest on 11 December, 2013.
Faster, Safer & More Comfortable Transport Along Reconstructed Section Of M0 In Hungary
- 7 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- getting around
The extension of the southern section of M0 has been the largest-scale investment in recent years, of beyond national significance. The Ministry of National Development will continue mobilising all resources in order to continuously keep raising the standard of public roads in Hungary, Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner said at a press conference held on the achievements related to ...
Miskolc Northern Ring Road In Hungary To Be Completed By Late Spring 2015
- 14 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- getting around
Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner, Member of Parliament of the region Katalin Csöbör and Head of Communications of the National Infrastructure Development Co. Ltd. Dániel Loppert laid the foundation stone of the Miskolc Northern Ring on 13 November 2013. The 2x1 lane stretch of 5.8 km to be funded from the New Széchenyi Plan is to be ready for use by traffic in late spring 2015.