#accidents

A growing number of car owners in Cyprus are being forced to pay for damages caused by electric scooters and other two-wheeled vehicles, as legal gaps leave police unable to ...

Cyprus must act fast to tackle a worrying rise in road deaths, especially among young men, motorcyclists and elderly pedestrians, transport engineer Neophytos Zavrides has said. Zavrides explained that recent ...

Traffic came to a standstill on the Limassol to Nicosia highway in both directions on Thursday morning, following two separate accidents near the Linopetra exit. The first accident involved a ...

The deaths of 16-year-old Christos Panayi and 20-year-old George Theofanous have been confirmed following post-mortem examinations carried out on Thursday. Both young men were killed in separate fatal traffic accidents ...

Despite early progress in reducing road deaths, Cyprus experienced a 22 per cent surge in road fatalities in 2024, reversing a two-year downward trend. Authorities reported 41 deaths, compared to 34 in 2023, when the ...

MPs will next week discuss the lack of a legal framework surrounding the growing trend of installing dashcams in vehicles and their potential use as evidence in cases of accidents ...

Investigations into how a 64-year-old father of two girls was electrocuted on Wednesday, in Argaka, Paphos, are continuing. Police said the 64-year-old appears to have been repairing the swimming pool ...

Thirty people lost their lives on the job since 2021 and more than 4,000 were injured in the workplace in the same period, the president of the Technical Chamber Etek said on ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) is looking to cut a deal with private insurers on how to divvy up hospital treatment costs, it emerged in parliament on Monday. HIO director ...

Paphos police on Monday reported that a 58-year-old man in Pano Arodes fell from a ladder and was injured. The 58-year-old had been up three meters high, cleaning the exterior ...

Cyprus recorded the second lowest rate of road deaths of children in proportion to population among the countries monitored by the European Transport Safety Council’s (ETSC) Road Safety Performance ...

Police were kept busy on Thursday as three car accidents occurred on the Limassol-Nicosia highway between Yermasoyia and Ayios Athanasios. All three accidents happened around 6.30pm. No serious injuries were ...

The transport ministry is working on legislative changes as part of efforts to improve road safety, minister Yiannis Karousos said on Thursday as he welcomed private initiatives to stem the ...

Car crashes and other related road deaths have claimed the lives of 39 people so far this year, as Cyprus appears to be stuck at about 50 such deaths a year – despite ...