Life, potential death and justice on Cypriot roads
At 2.30 on Thursday afternoon, I was locking my car when a woman in a Mercedes saloon hit me with her left side wing mirror as I was standing right next to...
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More than 450 fined for traffic offences in 24 hours
Police fined more than 450 people for various traffic offences in the last 24 hours, as part of efforts to prevent serious and fatal road...
Cyprus has among least safe roads in Europe
Cyprus is near the bottom of European countries when it comes to the number of road fatalities per million inhabitants, according to figures released by...
Over 100 traffic cameras on the way, police chief says
A total of 110 traffic cameras will be installed on the roads, hopefully by 2020, Police Chief Kypros Michaelides said on Saturday, a day after...
Two people seriously injured in separate accidents
Two people were seriously injured in separate road accidents in Ayia Napa and Larnaca in the early hours of Thursday. A 36-year-old man is in...
Call for Karpas donkeys to be corralled
Following the recent increase in traffic accidents caused due to donkeys roaming free in the roads of the Karpas peninsula in the north, an association...
Police urge motorists to look out for elderly pedestrians after two accidents
After two accidents involving elderly pedestrians on Tuesday Limassol police chief Ioannis Soteriades cautioned drivers to be careful, especially in the Easter period, when the...
Traffic deaths fell by 19.3 per cent in 2016
The death toll from road accidents reduced in Cyprus during 2016 by 19.3 per cent, according to the 11th Road Safety Performance Index Report of the...
Call for tougher sentences for drivers
Sweeping changes that would include stiffer fines and harsher sentencing for wayward drivers, including slashing the points’ ceiling from 12 to 6, could be in...
Harsh penalties for driving offences not enough on their own – study
A study by the University of Cyprus law department into how to reduce road accidents concludes that extrajudicial penalties should be harsher but said this...
Our View: Speed cameras should be a top priority
NICOSIA district court yesterday sentenced a young man to a year in prison for causing the death of another young man, three years ago, through...
Drivers arrested for causing accidents while under the influence of alcohol
Traffic police in Limassol were kept busy overnight with two accidents involving drivers with alcohol levels exceeding the legal limit. Called to an accident at...
Cyprus showed biggest increase in roads deaths in 2015
CYPRUS topped the charts for the biggest increase in the number of road deaths in the EU in 2015 according to the 10th Road...
Fewer road accidents but more dead
Although there were fewer road accidents in 2015, more people have died because of them, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Tuesday while he added...
Almost 35,000 injured in road accidents since 2000
By Annette Chrysostomou DURING the past 15 years 34,826 people were severely or lightly injured in road accidents in Cyprus, according to the chairman of...
NGO aims for ‘zero deaths’ during holiday period
By Annette Chrysostomou FROM 2010 to 2014, a total of 271 people were killed in road accidents, of which 28 per cent were under 25...
Authorities mull 10-year sentence for road deaths caused by drink and drug drivers
By Andria Kades A draft bill providing a 10-year sentence for those who cause death by driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol is...
Cyprus marks remembrance day for road victims
Ninety two National Guardsmen have died on the island’s roads since 1996, according to road safety group REACTION. The NGO’s head Marios Stavrou said 1999...
Forty five people died on the roads so far this year
So far this year 45 people have died in road accidents and while drivers continue to speed, measures to reduce the accidents is moving at...
Drink-drive campaign results significantly better than last year
Nearly eight out of ten drivers who took part in a voluntary road safety campaign islandwide on Saturday night to highlight the dangers of drink...