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[kaycee]

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone can help, I just found out my relative has just died in a car accident , it was in the papers. would anyone be able to send me a copy of the articles or how do I find it on the net The accident was on Monday at Aglandgia,

[twinkle]

Following from Cyprus Mail. My sympathies to you and your family x

Think twice before chasing speeding motorists, police urged
By By Leo Leonidou

THE POLICE Chief yesterday called on Z-Squad motorcycle officers to consider their own safety as well as other road users before deciding whether to give chase to traffic offenders.
Iacovos Papacostas said that according to the law, officers are entitled to give chase to motorists, but urged caution.
“I will leave it to the discretion of the officer in question, who must ascertain whether or not to follow,” he said. “Conditions such as traffic congestion and the speed at which an offender is travelling must be taken into account.”
The instructions have come about after a motorcyclist was critically injured in the early hours of Sunday morning, after crashing into a car during a high-speed chase by police.

Marios Tsangarides, 26, from Aglandja, slammed at high speed into the car being driven by a 71-year-old man and his wife on Limassol Avenue.
According to police, three Z-Squad officers on motorcycles saw three bikes travelling at high speed in the Latsia area of Nicosia The bikes did not have number plates and sped off when police flagged them down.
The officers were chasing Tsangarides when he smashed into the car, which was attempting to pull out into the main road.
So, will motorists ‘get away with it’ if it’s deemed too dangerous to give chase? “Certainly not,” said Papacostas. “Officers will note details of an offender and radio up ahead to a colleague, who will then attempt to apprehend the suspect,” he explained.

On Monday, Tsangarides was visited at Nicosia General Hospital by Justice Minister Sofocles Sofocleous, who spoke with his parents.
According to several police officers interviewed last month, it is too difficult to catch speeding motorcyclists, many of whom do not wear crash helmets. “If I tried to run one of them down in my cruiser, it’s too easy to have an accident. It’s too dangerous and we don’t really have any training for this,” one Limassol officer said.
“They rarely pull over. They just go faster to get away and then there’s an accident.”
Another officer revealed that he was instructed never to attempt to stop a speeding motorcyclist or scooter rider, for the reasons cited above.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007

[kaycee]

Thank you. my relative was the passanger he was 25 years old what a waste

[twinkle]

Absolutely. But you hear of these stories all to often over here. My thoughts and prayers are with you. God bless

[kaycee]

thank you I just found out that the twinkle's info does not refer to that accident. they where travelling at high speed and lost control of the car

[twinkle]

It will probably be in the Cyprus Weekly tomorrow. Will check then

[Bananiot]

Do you mean Georgiades from Strovolos? He is clinicly dead I think. He is 25 years old and he drove a fast car at almost 200km/hour. I believe the passenger survived. The driver was thrown outside the car. He was not wearing a seat belt.

[DT.]

Do you mean Georgiades from Strovolos? He is clinicly dead I think. He is 25 years old and he drove a fast car at almost 200km/hour. I believe the passenger survived. The driver was thrown outside the car. He was not wearing a seat belt.

thought it was George Antoniades Bananiot.

[kaycee]

yes it was George but you have got it wrong he was not the driver he was the passenger the driver survived he seat belt snapped and he was flung out of the car RIP

[Bananiot]

You are right DT. He was buried today. My son knew him very well. Went to his funeral. His family consented to his organs to be removed and donated to various people, 3 in Cyprus and 2 in Greece.