Road deaths fell 20% between 2010 and 2020
Road accidents fell 20 per cent between 2010 and 2020 in Cyprus, data released by the statistical service (Cystat) said on Wednesday. According to an infographic on...
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Speed and no seatbelts major factors in sobering road accident stats
Cyprus saw over 10,000 road accidents in 12 years with 729 fatalities The majority of fatal traffic accidents’ victims in Cyprus are men, while most...
Correct sentencing in road fatality cases can serve as deterrent
District court judges were back in class this week for a one-day online seminar on how sentencing can serve as an effective deterrent to road...
Despite dramatic fall in traffic, road deaths dropped only marginally in 2020
Despite up to 70 to 80 per cent reduction in road traffic during 2020 due to the lockdowns, road deaths only fell 25 per cent,...
Road deaths up 6.1% in Cyprus
Cyprus ranks 18th in the EU in road deaths, according to the 14th annual Road Safety Performance Report published on Wednesday by the European Transport...
Road death toll rises to 44 after little girl dies in Paphos
A post-mortem conducted on a 10-year-old girl, who died in a car accident in Paphos on Friday, concluded she died from internal bleeding, with the...
‘Drunk drivers are potential killers’, MPs mull deterrent fines
LAWMAKERS on Friday delved into a package of bills providing for deterrent traffic fines that they hope will end the road carnage after a particularly...
Police plead with MPs to increase penalties after road deaths spike (Updated)
Counting 29 road fatalities in the first eight months of the year – six in the past 11 days – police on Monday issued a...
Police target motorcycle safety
Police launched an island-wide campaign targeting motorcycle and moped drivers on Monday, highlighting that in the period between 2014-2018, 52 per cent of motorcyclists who...
Seven new bills for stiffer traffic penalties
THE government has submitted seven bills to parliament introducing stricter penalties for certain traffic offences in a bid to curb deaths and serious injury on...
More than 30 traffic deaths so far this year (Updated)
TWO road deaths in two days has brought the total fatalities this year to 34. Last year, 53 people in total lost their lives in...
Separate car accidents claim the lives of young girl and a man
A five-year-old girl and a 38-year-old man died on Monday in two separate road accidents in Larnaca and Limassol, while a woman and a four-year-old...
North’s road deaths on the rise
Road deaths in the north are on the rise and have become a serious concern, according to a Turkish Cypriot news report on Monday. Since...
Elderly man killed crossing road
An 80-year-old man from Nicosia died on Monday after he was hit by a car while crossing a street in Ayios Dometios. According to police,...
Media warned over publishing road victims’ names prematurely
Media outlets that make public sensitive information regarding fatal road accidents before the families of the victims are informed will be named and shamed, the...
Traffic crackdown in Limassol as fatalities rise
Nearly half the fatal traffic accidents in Cyprus occurred in Limassol in 2017, something that is worrying, assistant traffic police chief Philippos Papaelias said on...
Two women die in separate road collisions in the north (updated)
Two Turkish Cypriot women, aged 24 and 26, died in separate car accidents in the north early on Saturday, Turkish Cypriot media reported. Seda Bertan,...
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...
Two men die in separate road accidents
Cyprus on Friday added two more fatalities to the death toll from road accidents after a foreign national died in a collision and an elderly...
Road deaths fall by 23 per cent (updated)
Road fatalities decreased by 23 per cent between 2010 and 2016, according to a report issued by the European Commission on road safety on Tuesday....