UPDATED: Driver critical after Zabbar collision

I actually enjoy driving in Malta. I have never laughed so much. I find it refreshing that the roads in Malta are so unhindered by petty rules that have to be obeyed. Let's all make an effort to drive straight out of junctions without looking and then glare angrily at anyone who dares to sound his horn in our direction. Such fun. And why wait at a junction when you can squeeze past another car and cut him off with such joyous abandon! Parking? Now that is even more fun when you can turn on your hazard lights and block traffic for miles behind you so you can avoid walking 20 yards to the pastizzeria. Don't get me wrong, I really do find the whole thing amusing and would rather put up with all of this than sit in a traffic jam on the M25!!

Mr/Mrs A Saliba, I don't know about this case, but uprooting an electricity pole does not strike me as a bumper to bumper kind of accident (which can also be a case of careless driving!). Besides, one would not be driving at 60MPH and upon some unforeseen circumstances, uproots an electricity pole!! Excessive speed is always a factor. And excessive speed constitutes careless driving in my books.....

The number of vehicle accidents is on the rise. Installing thousands of speed cameras, wardens or police is not a solution. Unless it is not a tax collecting exercise. Sometimes speed cameras are a detriment other than a solution, the one in the Bahar ic-Caghaq hill will flash you even in the uphill and it will blind you for a moment especially at 2am in pitch darkness, is it to stop hedgehogs from being splattered. In the uphill the vehicle will stop by gravitational force anyway ! We need to be a educated people behind the steering wheel. People need to remember they are not alone on the road. Stop driving slowly in the fast lane and stop using mobile phones while driving. But we also need to be practical when road signage, potholes and other problems are created by practical idiots. Who in his right mind plants a zebra crossing at the top of a hill as is the one at the top of the hill coming from Msida marina to Valletta (Bombi Arch area). Common sense seems to be in short supply on this Island. Come on people get practical!

Albert Fenech seems convinced, albeit without any evidence whatsoever, that all these accidents are due to careless driving. Can we please wait for the facts before turning this page into yet another moralistic preachfest?

Now I read news of yet another seriousvehicle crash, this time on the Birkirkara By-Pass with the young driver in danger of dying. When oh when is this country going to wake up to the necessity that we have a social and moral duty to impose on our authorities that something MUST be done to enforce road discipline, either through more speed cameras, more crippling fines, more traffic police (on a 24-hours basis and not just one or two visible during day hours to avoid overtime payments!) and wardens strategically placed on a 24-hour basis to clamp down heavily on all traffic infringements.

It will not be a surprise, that the driver tried to swerve around the numerous potholes that have been there for weeks in the area!!!

Just did 1,900 km abroad in 2 weeks, and all I found was just a single pothole! We need better roads as well!

This country's road discipline awareness is a total fiasco and, as Alfred Briffa rightly said, it has brought about a horrendous scenario of daily accidents that are to say the least frightening. However, no extent of graphic horrors shown on television and in pictorial form seem to act as a deterrent. Indeed, some drivers seem hell bent on a kind of suicide/murder pact that not only puts their life and limb in danger, but is causing massive danger to other road users. Driving standards are atrocious (bad driving, bad lane positioning, skipping traffic lights, failing to flash at roundabouts and when turning corners, ignoring "No Entry" signs, etc) and the disciplinary standard is rock bottom. Speed cameras have only ensured that when passing them, a motorist momentarily slows down and then jams on the speed again. Traffic wardens skulk around slapping parking tickets willy-nilly but are totally useless for anything else. Our mobile police force seems to have abdicated street discipline and the enforcement of street legalities. In short, the situation is in total meltdown and a free-for-all and our authorities are doing absolutely nothing about it. The result is that Malta's roads have become a death-fraught network of Russian Roulette.

I've been driving for the past forty years but never as currently shivers are running through my spine while on the road.
Traffic accidents are becoming more frequent than the air we breath in. I am seriously thinking of quiting driving once and for all!