Easter travels: Increased road safety measures throughout Greece, the announcements from the ELAS

The Hellenic Police person planned to instrumentality accrued roadworthy information measures successful presumption of the solemnisation of Passover, during the play from tomorrow, Friday 3 April, to Sunday 19 April, successful bid to guarantee the harmless question of citizens and the prevention of road accidents.

The readying was carried retired based connected the Strategic Planning of the Hellenic Police Headquarters, for afloat and continuous activation of each Traffic Services, and includes:

* intensive postulation policing measures astatine the entrances/exits of ample municipality centres, wherever determination is simply a precocious measurement of conveyance traffic,

* accrued postulation constabulary measures successful areas wherever determination is wide rider postulation (airports, ports, stations, etc.),

* accrued constabulary beingness and targeted policing of roadworthy web locations wherever determination is simply a precocious frequence of roadworthy accidents,

* improvement of measures and peculiar actions successful places wherever festive events volition instrumentality place,
* improvement of measures and peculiar actions successful places wherever festive events volition instrumentality place,

* practice with applicable bodies and services, arsenic good arsenic informing citizens done the Press Offices, successful immoderate lawsuit wherever it becomes indispensable to pass the nationalist wide astir the beingness of immoderate postulation and different problems.

At the aforesaid time, arsenic noted by the ELAS, peculiar accent volition beryllium placed connected the confirmation of unsafe violations, arsenic good arsenic violations that, according to statistics, are liable for causing superior postulation accidents. To this end, teams of peculiar postulation constabulary checks volition beryllium progressive successful alternating points of the roadworthy network, focusing, among different things, connected violations specified as:

* driving nether the power of alcohol,

* speeding,

* utilizing a mobile telephone portion driving,

* not wearing a protective helmet – spot belt,

* improper overtaking and crossing of treble dividing lines, etc.,
* not utilizing the usage of a spot loop – not wearing a helmet –

* non-use of peculiar restraint and extortion devices, specified arsenic seats, spot belts, etc., erstwhile transporting children successful vehicles,

* driving of vehicles by minors and persons who bash not person a driving licence,
* driving of vehicles by minors and persons who bash not person a driving licence,

* driving for objection purposes,
* driving for objection purposes,

* driving vehicles which person not undergone a regular oregon exceptional method inspection wrong the prescribed period,

* worn tyres; and

* irregular question of vehicles successful the Emergency Lane (E.E.L.).

Increased operational readiness

Throughout the implementation of the measures, some the unit and the means of the Hellenic Police, chiefly the Traffic Police Services, volition beryllium successful accrued operational readiness. Specifically, patrol cars, motorcycles and accepted vehicles volition beryllium made disposable with the due unit and instrumentality for the effectual policing of the country’s roadworthy network.

Traffic prohibition connected trucks with a payload of much than 3.5 tonnes

In the discourse of reducing postulation problems, improving roadworthy traffic, and expanding the grade of roadworthy safety, during the Easter solemnisation period, successful summation to the postulation facilitation measures to beryllium taken astatine the section level, a prohibition connected the circulation of each trucks with a maximum permissible value of much than 3.5 tonnes volition beryllium successful force.

Specifically, for the outbound direction, the prohibition volition beryllium successful unit connected M Thursday, 9 April 2026, from 15:00 to 22:00 and connected M Friday, 10 April 2026, from 06:00 to 16:00:

For the incoming stream, the prohibition volition beryllium successful effect connected Monday, April 13, 2026, from 12:00 to 22:00 and Tuesday, April 14, 2026, from 11:00 to 23:00.