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Popular Greek-American Rapper Mad Clip Killed in Athens Car Crash

Popular Greek-American rapper Mad Clip, whose real name was Peter Anastasopoulos, was pronounced dead on Thursday after a traffic accident in the southern Athenian suburb of Vouliagmeni. Police say that the the rapper lost control of the vehicle he was...

Three Migrants Killed in Northern Greece Car Crash

Three migrants were killed and three were injured on Thursday when a car carrying them veered off the road and overturned in northern Greece, police said. The accident occurred on the Egnatia Highway, near Kavala, at approximately 6.30 AM local...

Horror Smash Kills 2 on Athens Highway (video)

CCTV footage has captured the moment a deadly road traffic accident in Athens claimed the lives of at least two people. The incident took place early Wednesday morning on the Kifissos highway. A lorry travelling in the direction of Lamia...

Young Driver without License Runs Down 14-Year-Old Girl in Northern Greece

An 18-year-old driver without a license ran down and killed a 14-year-old girl in Alexandreia town, in northern Greece, on Friday. The accident happened at 8:00 pm on El. Venizelos Street of Alexandreia. The girl, Katerina Kyropoulou, was trying to...

Thirty-Five Car Pileup Near Athens; One Dead

A pileup with some 35 vehicles occurred at around 6:30 pm today on the 61st kilometer of the National Road connecting the capital city of Athens with the town of Lamia in central Greece , a small distance from the old toll...

21 Dead in Alcohol and Speed Related Car Accidents in Attica

Twenty one people were killed and hundreds were injured in the otherwise empty streets of Athens in August. According to data from the Athens Traffic Police, there were 411 accidents with 538 victims during August, the holiday month in Greece. Twenty one...

ELSTAT: Increase in Traffic Accidents in Greece

On Friday, August 29, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) released statistical data regarding traffic accidents in Greece. According to the data, road accidents in June 2014 increased by 4%, compared to the same period last year. On the other hand, the number of fatal road...