Cyprus still falling short on road safety minister warns
The strategic plan for road safety 2012-2020 is to reduce the number of road deaths and injuries by 50 per cent, Transport Minister Vassiliki Anastasiadou...
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‘Shameful’ Limassol cycle path will be corrected says municipality
A crooked, shoddily painted Limassol bicycle path largely blocked by parked cars has been ridiculed on social media, prompting the municipality to promise to investigate...
Police road safety event under slogan Life Above All
A march in memory of people who died in traffic accidents will take place on Saturday as part of the Life Above All police traffic...
Trucks and buses to be checked in week-long police campaign
Police will be carrying out a road campaign on trucks and buses from Monday until next Sunday, they announced. Driver and vehicle documentation will be...
Using phones at the wheel focus of new police campaign
As part of continuing efforts to reduce the number of traffic accidents the police will on Monday begin a campaign to make sure drivers have...
Cyprus’ two traffic cameras filmed over 87,000 speeding violations in five years
Cyprus’ only traffic cameras, operating on a small strip of Nicosia’s Grivas Digenis avenue, recorded over 87,500 traffic violations in five years, though only some...
Fifth underage teen caught driving in three days
Police have caught yet another minor driving, this time in the Paphos area on Wednesday evening. The 15-year-old is the fifth youngster caught driving without...
Drivers not listening to our road safety pleas police say
Police pleas for safer driving after six road deaths in just 11 days appear to have fallen on deaf ears, the force said on Wednesday...
Man charged with driving under influence of drugs and drink
Police have charged a man for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in the Famagusta region. At around 2am on Wednesday, officers signalled...
Boy, 13, caught driving in Limassol
Police caught a 13-year-old boy driving a car in Limassol on Tuesday shortly before midnight. The boy was taken to the police station and his...
Ministry says series of road safety measures already in pipeline
A series of measures to tackle unsafe roads are in the pipeline, the transport ministry said on Tuesday, expressing its concern at the recent surge...
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...
Interior ministry allocates €4.7m for small community projects
Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides announced on Friday that €4.7 million saved from his ministry’s budget will be allocated for 124 small projects in 103 communities....
Police warn drivers ‘triple checks’ coming
THERE is a new model in place to catch traffic offenders, both on the motorways and in the towns, head of the traffic department Yiannakis...
Paphos police in bad driving crackdown
Police in Paphos reported 826 traffic offences, 373 of them involving speeding, during a week-long crackdown on traffic violations. The traffic offence crackdown started on...
New bills for tougher traffic penalties delayed again
The bundle of seven new bills on implementing tougher traffic penalties is unlikely to be voted through by parliament before summer recess but more likely...
Teen dies 10 days after motorbike accident
A 17-year-old resident of Paralimni died on Monday in Nicosia general hospital after he was critically injured in a road accident ten days earlier. Stephanos...
Wear helmets, police tell motorcyclists after three accidents overnight
Police on Sunday appealed to motorcyclists and moped drivers to take measures to protect themselves in case of an accident. After three accidents overnight between...
Death on Cyprus’ urban roads three times higher than EU average
Mortality on urban roads in Cyprus is close to three times the EU average with around 60 deaths per million inhabitants, the fourth worst record...
Traffic offences in May topped 25,000
Over 25,000 drivers were booked for traffic offences in May, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said on Monday while stressing that police campaigns are not enough...
