February is shaping up as the deadliest month for road safety in Cyprus in recent years, with five fatalities in traffic collisions — triple the figure recorded in the same period over each of the past two years.
Since the start of 2026, seven people have died on Cypriot roads. Three of them were motorcyclists and one was an e-scooter rider — a trend confirming that two-wheeled transport remains the biggest risk factor on Cyprus’s roads.
What makes this year’s toll distinctive is that most of the accidents occurred under unusual circumstances rather than the classic factors of speed, alcohol or inattention. A road worker was struck on the motorway while placing cones, a car plunged off a cliff in Pentalia, Paphos district, and a 19-year-old woman died as a passenger in a vehicle fitted with a wrongly sized tyre.
At the same time, the Road Safety Council is set to discuss the pressing issue of e-scooters moving unchecked through traffic. Four legislative proposals are pending in parliament, with MPs calling for scooter registration and insurance. The Public Works Department is preparing a study recommending raising the minimum user age from 14 to 16, while traffic police are pushing for a ban on scooters from roads with speed limits of 50 km/h and above.
The Municipality of Nicosia is additionally proposing that scooters carry some form of identification markings so that offending riders can be traced and reported.
