#road safety

Three individuals were arrested during coordinated police operations carried out nationwide overnight and into Wednesday. According to police, the arrests concerned offences including threats, assault and illegal residency. Furthermore, during ...

The Road Safety Council on Monday announced the launch of a road safety campaign, reminding the public to pay particular attention to using seatbelts, avoid drunk driving and speeding during ...

Nineteen of the forty-three killed on the roads this year died because drivers were using mobile phones or not paying attention. These figures were presented to the road safety council ...

The legislative gap concerning the use of car dashboard cameras (dashcams) was addressed in a bill proposed by Stavros Papadouris, leader of the environmental movement, on Thursday at the parliamentary ...

The Law Office on Tuesday clarified that the official inquiry into Takata airbags had included the years 2023 and 2024, rejecting claims that these periods were excluded, after families said they had ...

The right lane of the Limassol-Nicosia highway reopened to traffic at around 8am on Monday, following a temporary closure caused by a car overturning near the Kornos area. Police reported ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades and the commissioner for gender equality Josie Christodoulou welcomed on Wednesday the installation of new female silhouettes on pedestrian traffic lights in Nicosia. The inspection took ...

The programme “Walking Safely in My School Neighbourhood” was launched on Friday morning at a conference organised by the Cyprus police in collaboration with the education ministry. The programme aims ...

Mistakes of the past will not be repeated, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday after meeting a Road Safety Council workgroup put forward a series of recommendations concerning risks ...

Authorities said on Thursday they are in touch with local Citroen car dealers over an alert concerning faulty airbags in some models. In a statement, the Road Transport Department cited ...

By Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades Cyprus is committed to reducing the number of fatal and serious injury car accidents. This is the primary objective of the Road Safety Council, which ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus began hearing a case on Wednesday over a disputed law requiring countdown timers at junctions monitored by traffic cameras. At the centre of the ...

Stretches of the Nicosia-Limassol highway, as well as on the Limassol-Paphos highway will be temporarily closed for road works next week, the Department of Public Works announced on Thursday. From ...

Mobile speed cameras are “not set up on a whim”, traffic police director Charis Evripidou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said there are “points where ...

The Paphos tourism promotion company (ETAP) has launched its road safety campaign for the fourth consecutive year. Titled “Let’s Share Our Roads Safely,” the campaign aims to educate both ...

The transport ministry has announced a significant reduction in traffic violations at photo-enforced checkpoints throughout 2024. The data indicates a marked decline in offences compared to the previous year, underlining the ...

As the Takata airbag recall crisis continues to unfold in Cyprus, MEP Michalis Hadjipantelas is leading an urgent call for immediate European action to address the defective airbags, which have ...

Only by strengthening road awareness and strictly adhering to the traffic code will traffic accidents be minimised, the defence ministry deputy director said on Monday. “Road accidents are an extremely ...

The rising number of traffic accident fatalities was the focus of the Road Safety Council that convened on Wednesday under Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades. To date, 29 road deaths have been ...

Road safety was on the top of the north’s ‘parliament’s’ agenda on Monday as it convened for the first time since the death of Greek Cypriot Photis Photiou ...

The north’s ‘government’ is “like a bad joke”, opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday. Erhurman was reacting to the establishment of a traffic and transport services ...

A preschool road safety park was officially opened in the Famagusta district town of Sotira on Thursday. The park was opened by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, with the aim of ...

In a bid to ensure road safety, police and road transport department officials intensified their checks on buses and trucks across the island. Tuesday’s checks were focused primarily on ...

Police targeted bus and truck drivers on Monday as they carried out road inspections in the Paphos district, resulting in the detection of 121 violations concerning a total of 43 drivers and ...