Almost 2,000 traffic violations in only three days
Almost 2,000 traffic violations were recorded over a period of just three days, police said on Monday. Between Friday night and Monday morning, 1,798 violations...
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Police check trucks and buses, 12 drivers booked, three cautioned
Police ran an inspection campaign all day Saturday on trucks, and on Sunday were inspecting buses, they said. The two days of checks were part...
Scores booked during road safety campaign in Paphos
Police on Sunday said they filed 59 reports for various traffic violations in the Paphos district during a campaign on road safety. In total 180...
Hundreds fined for traffic violations (Updated)
Hundreds of people were fined overnight on Friday night for violating traffic regulations, police said on Saturday. According to authorities, traffic officers ran a campaign...
Police arrest undocumented migrant
A 28-year-old foreign national was caught on Thursday driving in Paphos in a car that had been stricken off, without insurance and driver’s licence, and...
Biker nabbed in Nicosia doing 167kph
Police nabbed a motorcyclist speeding at 167 kilometres an hour instead of the legal 50 on Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue in the early hours of Sunday,...
Almost 280 traffic violations in Nicosia in only six hours
Over a period of six hours on Wednesday evening Nicosia police booked 277 traffic violators and conducted a total of 550 car searches, while three...
Driver jailed for traffic violations
A 46-year-old man was sentenced by the Paphos district court to two months in prison on Wednesday for driving while his licence was revoked and...
Running a red light on the rise
CYPRIOT drivers are incorrigible when it comes to the traffic code. According to statement released by police on Thursday, during a nationwide control campaign from...
Action not words to clamp down on traffic violations
WE have been hearing the authorities, for years, saying that tougher penalties should be imposed on drivers in order to make our roads safer. The...
Speeding MP case postponed for later in the week
The hearing for DISY MP Andreas Themistocleous’ traffic violations was postponed on Monday until the end of the week by the Nicosia district court. After...
DISY MP does not object to lifting of immunity for traffic violations (Updated)
By George Psyllides DISY MP Andreas Themistocleous on Thursday told the Supreme Court he did not object to lifting his parliamentary immunity to face prosecution for traffic...
AG requests MP’s immunity lifted for traffic violations (update with comments)
By Angelos Anastasiou The Supreme Court has been asked to lift DISY MP Andreas Themistocleous’ immunity from prosecution, so that he can be tried for...
Unpaid state fines total more than 200m euros
By Evie Andreou The state is owed more than €200m in outstanding fines, the majority of them for social insurance contributions, criminal offences and traffic...
Police lag in issuing cam fines… and there are only two cameras so far
By Andria Kades Around 17,000 traffic violations recorded on the two sole cameras in Nicosia are outstanding with some drivers waiting months to be notified...
Cameras record 2,000 violations in a weekend
By Constantinos Psillides OVER 2,000 traffic violations were recorded last weekend by two fixed speed cameras installed on Grivas Dhigenis avenue in Nicosia. Deputy head...
There’s no escaping EU fines any more
By Constantinos Psillides EUROPEAN drivers will no longer be able to escape fines for traffic violations committed in EU countries other than their own. The...
