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Greek Rescuers Recover Bodies from Flooded Cretan River

Rescue teams on Monday recovered four bodies which were believed to belong to a family  which had gone missing since Saturday night when their car was swept away by a flooded river in Crete. The bodies were discovered inside the...

Photo of Car Blocking Disabled Greek Teen Goes Viral

A Facebook post by a father of a 17-year-old disabled Athens boy went viral when his son's wheelchair got stuck on a sidewalk in the city center due to an unlawfully parked car which blocked access to the street. The incident...

1 Dead, 2 Injured as Train Collides with Car near Greece's Lamia

One woman is dead and two others are seriously injured after a train crashed into a car in Kato Tithorea town near Central Greece's city of Lamia. The crash occurred early morning on Thursday. The car was found about 1...

Car Smashes into Athens Bus Stop, One Dead, 3 Injured

A car has smashed into a bus stop in the Athens suburb of Metamorphosi on Thursday killing a 50-year-old man and injuring three other people. Among the injured was the driver of the car and his young daughter. An elderly...

Greek Car Sales Up 44.3 pct in January

Greek car sales jumped 44.3 pct in January totaling 18,897 (new or used), from 13,096 cars in the same month in 2017, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Friday. The statistics service, in a monthly report, said that new car sales...

Study Says Greek Drivers are Attached to their Cars

Greek drivers are attached to their cars with 54 percent of those questioned stating that their car was more necessary to them than their cell phone, when questioned by Lease Plan Hellas in a study held in collaboration with...

Publisher Killed After Porsche Bursts Into Flames on Attica Highway

Tragedy struck at the Attica Highway in Athens on Thursday. Police pulled out the charred remains of Panayiotis Mavrikos, publisher of newspaper "Acropolis," from his Porsche Cayenne. Traffic CCTV footage shows the car moving along its lane towards Elefsina when...

Car Crashes in Greece the Highest in EU

The number of deaths resulting from car crashes in Greece reaches 1,600 while over 20,000 were injured last year. On a daily basis, five people die, five are left quadriplegic, ten are left paraplegic, 60 are injured leading to tens...

Greek Car Production to Restart in Late 2014

It was announced that the light-passenger-utility car, Pony, which was first produced by the Greek National Motor Company (NAMCO) in the 1970s, will once again begin production, starting around the end of 2014. Petros Tzanetos-Kondogouris, owner of the Thessaloniki-based company, announced...