‘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...
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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....
Top cop’s holiday video plea to road users
POLICE Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou issued a video plea on YouTube on Christmas Eve calling drivers to spare their loved ones “unimaginable pain” by adopting a...
NGO says everyone must unite in war against road accidents
Non governmental organisation Reaction has called for everyone to unite in the war against traffic accidents and for further investments to be made in new...
Road death rate remains stubbornly high
CYPRUS had the highest increase of 26.7 per cent in road deaths among all EU member states from 2014 to 2015, with 57 people reported...
Study highlights failings of punishment system for dangerous drivers
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou conceded on Wednesday that no matter what authorities have done in recent years to reduce road deaths, it has fallen...
Two women killed in separate road incidents (updated)
A woman died on Friday after slamming into an electricity pole with her car, which caught fire, police said. The accident happened on the road...
Road deaths in Cyprus up 27% last year
CYPRUS had the highest increase in road deaths among all EU countries between 2014 and 2015, a 27 per cent rise, according to a report...