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A 50-year-old Larnaca resident was jailed for 45 days on Monday after he was caught drink driving and speeding the previous day, police said. The...
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...
Man caught speeding
A young man who was speeding at 111km/h in a Paphos street where the speed limit is 50km/h was arrested on Thursday. The 22-year-old driver...
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...
Two arrested for speeding
Police arrested two young men for driving at twice the speed limit on the motorway. According to a police statement, a 21-year-old driver was caught...
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...
Two drivers caught speeding in separate incidents
Police caught two men speeding on the motorway in the Nicosia district, one on Monday evening and the other one early on Tuesday. According to...
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...
‘Driving is not a game’
Just hours after the third fatal road accident of the weekend, police caught a teenager driving at more than twice the legal limit while he...
Caught speeding at 198km per hour
Police said on Saturday they had caught a 40-year-old motorist doing 198km per hour on the Nicosia-Larnaca highway near Kofinou just before midday. The speed...
Man caught driving at double the speed limit
Yet another young man was caught speeding at twice the legal limit on Wednesday evening. The 18-year-old driver was stopped by police on Elladas avenue...
Police detain speeding drivers
Police on Monday detained two men who were caught speeding, one at almost three times the legal limit. At around 11.30pm, Nicosia traffic police clocked...
Man arrested driving more than twice limit in Larnaca centre
A 35-year-old woman from Nicosia was stopped by the police driving at 172km/h on the Limassol to Nicosia highway, where the limit is 100. Members...
Motorist jailed and fined for speeding
A 47-year-old man was on Thursday jailed for a month and fined €3,150, among others, for a series of traffic violations including, speeding, running red...
Highway turned into racetrack as two stopped for extreme speed
Two drivers racing along the Nicosia to Limassol highway were stopped on Sunday morning by police near Psmatismenos, just an hour apart from each other....
Speeding driver had been drinking, taking drugs
A 39-year-old woman was arrested on the highway on Saturday night driving 150km per hour where the limit is 100. According to a police announcement...
Speeding driver arrested after 25-minute chase
Police arrested a driver for committing a number of offences on Sunday afternoon after chasing him for 25 minutes. Officers signaled for the car to...
Man caught speeding
A 19-year-old man was arrested for driving an unregistered vehicle and speeding at 130km/h on a road where the speed limit is 65km/h. The man...
Cyprus one of worst offenders for motorway speeding – EU report
Cyprus has one of the highest rates of speed violations on motorways in the EU, with 63 per cent violating the speed limit of 100km/h,...
Eight hundred booked for speeding in 24 hours
Some 800 drivers were booked for speeding over the past 24 hours, while five motorists were found to be driving under the influence of narcotics,...