Number of road deaths in July increases compared to same period last year

Police say more people have died on Czech roads in the first three weeks of this month than in the whole of July a year ago. Eighty-nine people were reported killed in road accidents between July 1st and 22nd this year, with 32 people dying last week alone. Another 100 people were seriously injured in the course of last week in the 3,700 accidents reported. Among those killed was Czech jazz singer Pavla Kapitanova who died on Sunday in a crash involving two passenger cars and a van on the D8 motorway connecting Prague and north Bohemia.