Young man dies in crash
A YOUNG man lost his life after the car he was driving overturned on the Güzelyurt-Lefke main road last Friday night.
Mehmet Cilasun, 20, died in hospital four hours after the crash that occurred at 7pm. He had been driving “carelessly” and with “excessive speed” when he “lost control” after trying to avoid colliding with a car coming from the opposite direction during an overtaking manoeuvre, police said.
His car then came off the left side of the road, striking a mound of earth and rolling over.
Mr Cilasun was rushed to Cengiz Topel Hospital and then transferred to Lefkoşa State Hospital but medics there were unable to save him.
His death came just a day after Ali Dikbaş, 38, who was severely injured when his vehicle hit a tree at the Mehmetçik village junction on the İskele
Karpaz main road, succumbed to his injuries.
Mr Dikbaş had been in a critical condition at Lefkoşa State Hospital since September 21. He died on Thursday, October 1, a police statement said.
Meanwhile three people were injured in a head-on
collision on the Lefkoşa State Hospital dual carriageway on Tuesday.
The driver of one of the vehicles was arrested for causing the crash, which happened when he “lost control” due to “excessive speed and careless driving”, crossed the central
reservation and collided with two cars in the opposite lanes.
Elsewhere a car was destroyed after catching fire following an accident on the Lefkoşa- Gazimağusa main road on Tuesday evening. No-one was hurt.