Tag Archives: accident

Α well-known Greek marathon-runner died in a horrible traffic accident on Tuesday morning, when her bike was hit and carried away by a truck at a crossroads in Thessaloniki. The cyclist was 42-year-old marathon-runner and triathlon athlete Dimitra Iordanidou. Eye witnesses told local media that the woman was cycling on Grigoriou …

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A security car registered to an MP of ruling New Democracy has been involved in a serious traffic accident with a motorcycle outside the Parliament on Friday. Seriously injured was a 23-year-old young man who is now on mechanical support and is considered as “brain dead.” Minutes after the accident, …

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Seven people were killed and five were injured early Wednesday morning when a vehicle crashed into the concrete base of a toll booth under construction on the Egnatia Odos highway, in Ardanio, northeastern Greece. The accident occurred on a road section near the town of Alexandroupolis. Police was informed about …

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Two bear cubs have been found dead and buried in a farm plot in the lakeside area between Polykarpis and Fotini, by Kastoria, northern Greece. The cubs were killed by a car. But who buried them? Most likely it was the mama bear, say members of emergency response team of …

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An explosion in the state-run mining and metallurgical enterprise LARCO killed a worker, a 55-year-old father of three. The accident comes a day after the LARCO workers’ union denounced “lack of safety measures.” The accident took place in the company’s plant in Larymna, the port town in Fthiotis, Central Greece, …

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One tourist died and two others were injured, one of them seriously, when an all-terrain vehicle ATV collided with a private car on the island of Mykonos on early afternoon Thursday. The fatal accident occurred on the road between Chora and the Airport. According to local media, dead is a …

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Six migrants were killed and ten were injured when a smuggling jeep carrying them through northern Greece crashed into an irrigation ditch. The accident occurred on Monday evening outside the village of Loutra near the northeastern town of Alexandroupolis that is close to the Turkish border. According to local media, …

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The pilot of a single engine aircraft was slightly injured during an emergency landing at a rural road off the Egnatia highway near Grevena, West Macedonia, short before 9 o’ clock on Thursday morning. Slightly injured are also the two passenger on board of the Cessna. The Cessna with two …

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It was a wrong handling and the Sky Express that was about to take off from the airport of Naxos landed … in a ditch next to the runway. The accident occurred at 5:30 Friday afternoon and the airport had to be closed for safety reasons. None of the 47 …

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The winner of Greek reality show “Power of Love I” Panos Zarlas was killed on a traffic accident he had with his motorcycle. Tragic irony: the 28-year-old was killed on the day of his birthday. Zarlas was driving on Syggrou Avenue at 2 o’ clock Friday morning when his probably …

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Two young British tourists lost their lives in a traffic accident in the broader area of Profitis Ilias mountain on the island of Santorini on Sunday. The couple was on a buggy that fell into a 200-meter deep ravine. For unknown reasons the driver lost control of the motorcycle that …

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A 4-year-old child died and 27 people were injured when a van transferring migrants collided with a truck on the old national highway Thessaloniki-Kavala on Friday night. Among the injured are five children with the youngest to be a 5-month-old baby. Injured are also two traffickers who are hospitalized guarded.  …

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Thousands of tourists will be able to admire the famous Zakynthos Shipwreck from afar after Port Authorities forbade both anchoring of boats and swimming in the area following the cliff collapse on Thursday. Port Authorities on the island of Zakynthos have issued a decision forbidding the sailing of and anchoring …

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New details come to surface about the tragic boat accident where a 15-year-old boy lost his life when he fell into the sea and was caught by the vessel propeller on Saturday afternoon. According to local media and the Greek Coast Guard, the teenager boy slipped due to the sea …

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The summer vacation for a family from Finland on the island of Rhodes ended premature and in horror.  The 10-year-old family child was severely injured in a traffic accident on Friday and had his leg amputated. The family was crossing  the main road of Ixia, when a motorcycles dragged away …

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A 15-year-old Us national was killed in a tragic boat accident off the island of Paxos in the Ionian Sea. The teenager fell from the boat into the sea and was caught in the boat propeller. He died immediately in front of the eyes of his family, while his father …

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A British tourist got the shock of his life, when the powerful thrust of a jet engine knocked him off his feet. The man stood filming planes take off on the Greek island of Skiathos. Apparently he stood much too close and didn’t stick with ‘safety guidelines’… Paul Turner from Cheshire …

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A Tesla Model 3 driver from the US suffered an accident in Northern Greece, when the car crashed into barriers on E65 highway, while it was in Autopilot mode. You You Xue was on a mission to spread the word about his love for his Tesla Model 3. He even …

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A man was killed and three people, including a 10-year-old girl, were injured when a car crashed at a bus station in Metamorfosi suburb of West Athens on Wednesday morning. The 78-year-old man died on the spot, after suffering fatal injuries and was trapped between the car and a power …

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A  horrible traffic accident on Kifissos highway cost the lives of two men and sent a woman seriously injured to the hospital. The accident was caused by a lorry whose driver lost control of the vehicle while on the lane from Athens to Lamia. Footage from CCTV shows the lorry …

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