A 64-year-old driver from Greece was killed on Tuesday evening when he was thrown from his car after it veered off course and hit a concrete barrier on the Evrychou-Astromeritis motorway, near the village of Koutrafas.
The man was named as Apollonas Zosimidis.
According to initial evidence, he was driving along the motorway at around 6pm when his car left its course, struck the concrete central barrier and then hit an embankment, where it came to a stop.
The impact threw him out of the vehicle and onto the road. He was taken by ambulance to Nicosia General Hospital, where the doctor on duty pronounced him dead.
Police are investigating how the crash happened. Morphou Traffic Police are leading the inquiry.
