The police have arrested the 37-year-old driver who ran over 70-year-old Savvas Ioannou on Thursday night on a stretch of the Nicosia-Limassol motorway, near Moni.
Head of Limassol’s traffic police Marios Charalambous told the state radio on Friday that the police arrested the driver and placed him in custody.
Charalambous said the driver maintained that he did not see the roadwork signs.
The driver tested negative for alcohol and narcotics.
