The situation of the seven-year-old girl who was admitted to intensive care after being involved in a car crash on Thursday night is “progressing satisfactorily”, Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said on Friday.

Nikolaou said the crash took place at around 7.40pm on Thursday, with a car driven by a 21-year-old man colliding with a car driven by a 30-year-old woman.

There were three children in the woman’s car; her seven-year-old daughter, and two other relatives, aged seven and 14.

The woman and her daughter did not suffer any serious injuries, but the 14-year-old was kept overnight at the Paphos general hospital as a precaution, and the other seven-year-old was taken to the paediatric intensive care unit at Makarios hospital in Nicosia.

The 21-year-old man was taken to hospital and later discharged, while a drug test performed on him came back negative.

The police’s investigation into the matter is ongoing.