Teens killed in separate accidents

TWO 17-year-old boys were killed in two separate road accidents in the Nicosia district on Friday night and early Saturday morning.

The first accident took place shortly after 10 pm Friday, when a car driven by a 35-year-old man on Archbishop Makarios avenue in Klirou, Nicosia, entered the opposite driving lane and crashed head on with a motorbike driven by 17-year-old Haritos Aristodemou, from Kalo Chorio Orinis village.

The 17-year-old was rushed to Nicosia General Hospital, where he died shortly after midnight.

In a second accident, at around 4 am Saturday a car driven by an 18-year-old, with two other boys as passengers, 18 and 17, crashed into a car driven by a 21-year-old from Nicosia at the intersection between Tseriou with Strovolou avenues.

The crash killed 17-year-old Stylianos Tsatsos, and the two drivers and one other passenger had to be pulled out of the wrecked cars by the fire brigade and rushed to Nicosia General, where they are in serious condition.

Police urge anyone with information about the accident to contact either Nicosia Traffic police or their nearest police station, or call the citizens’ communication number 1460.

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