Taxi driver killed driving wrong way down motorway

A 39-YEAR-OLD taxi driver was killed yesterday driving the wrong way down the new Limassol to Paphos motorway.

Christakis Miltiadous Stavrou, alias Mamonias, from Limassol, was killed at 4.40am when his car collided head-on with a tanker truck. He did not have any passengers in his car.

According to police, Miltiadous had entered the wrong side of the motorway at the Limassol hospital fly-over.

He apparently drove around 800 metres in the wrong lane without realising his mistake, until the tanker truck slammed into his car head-on.

The truck driver was slightly injured in the accident; he was breathalysed by police, but the result was negative.

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