A quad bike ended up in the sea after plunging off a 90-metre cliff on Sunday at the Baths of Aphrodite on the Akamas peninsula, in Paphos.

According to Paphos assistant police Chief Michalis Nikolaou, the accident happened shortly before 4pm, when the 22-year-old male driver, travelling with a 24-year-old female passenger, lost control of the vehicle on the dirt road from Fontana Amorosa to the Baths of Aphrodite, near the Kakoskali area.

Police are investigating the conditions which led to the driver’s loss of control, causing the vehicle to overturn.

According to Nikolaou, the driver and his passenger managed to jump off the bike and landed on the roadside while the four-wheeler plunged to its destruction down the cliff, ending up in the sea.

The 22-year-old man and the 24-year-old woman were taken by ambulance to the Polis Chrysochous Hospital and later to the emergency department of the Paphos general hospital.

They suffered from cuts and abrasions and were released after receiving first aid. Both were wearing protective helmets.

Quad bike accidents have become a rising plague in the summer months. This summer alone at least four serious accidents have been recorded.

Earlier in July, a German woman suffered a punctured lung after an accident in Neo Chorio, while in June several incidents were recorded, including a fatality, when a Russian woman died in Peyia, days after two 20-year-olds had been critically injured in Ayia Napa. Also in June in Ayia Napa, three more people were injured.

Last year at this time, six people including three children were injured in Paphos when pedestrians also got dragged along by the runaway vehicle.