...while seventeen were killed in road accidents

Road accidents also took a grave toll at the weekend, with 17 deaths between Friday and Sunday. That number is one of the highest for the first weekend of summer holidays since 2001, when 21 people lost their lives. Friday saw more road deaths than any day since the beginning of the year, with eight people killed. Six of those deaths occurred in Central Bohemia, where rescue services in said they were called out to 20 accidents on that day alone. The end of the school year, the last day of which was Wednesday, and the beginning of summer holidays tends to bring with it increased rates of road accidents.