Woman injured in another Hompesch Road accident

Every one can comment about the bad behavior of the maltese people, but my friends, the authorities are deaf and blind. We have joined the EU since 2005 and nothing has changed, when we should drive like the Europeans and the laws should be enforced and not there for nothing. Until the laws are enforced and people are educated, nothing will change. I cannot believe how us maltese are allowed to drive on European roads (abroad).

Speed is not the only problem.
Many people have no idea how to drive.

Its so easy to crash in Malta, just keep looking forward driving at speed limit.
So you don't see the madman behind you overtake while going into a 1 way junction.

There I said it.

Ps. Mr Vella:
What do you mean who cares about the road ragers behind you?
You don't know what Gorilla could be behind you.
I say speed up, save the rear bumper and wheel chair expenses.

Dear Mr Laurence Schembri...

Having read your comment, I think you have not read my previous one further down! I have blamed the drivers for indeed, while the road situations in Malta BARELY ever (if ever) change, driver's do. I used to be pretty imprudent myself. Got two fines for over speeding in one day once...and I was only a few mph over the imposed limit but I got them, and I didnt complain. I paid for indeed I had breached the law... However, that occasion changed my driving attitude drastically while unfortuantely, there are drivers who, irripsectively of the NUMEROUS times they are fined... They keep speeding and using their cell phones and not wearing their seat belts etc etc... We should all use Youtube to check out how autopsies are carried out on road traffic victims perhaps the horror of seeing how such persons wind up would hit us so hard that we'd ALL start being more careful. I am now; and it pleases me. Who cares about road ragers hooting their horns behind me when I know I'm to arrive at my destination in due time, alive and well.

The comments below beggars belief. We all blame the pot-holes and bad roads, yet not one put the blame on careless driving, most drivers have no idea why we have white lines on the roads, no one observe them, we cross from one lane to another without even looking in the mirror, indicators, hardly ever used, mobile phones while going round a roundabout, need I go on? I am a smoker, yet I never smoke in the car, one look at the lighter, in a second you can have an accident. Keep your eyes on the road, there is no hurry, in Malta within 20 minutes you can cross the island from one end to the other. Look after your health and others.

Having recently received a fine for overspeeding.....61 kms instead of 50 kms on the Attard Road on a Saturday at 14.30 (aprox) when the road was empty......I cannot help wondering how on earth drivers can cope with the speed limits imposed on them. I promptly paid the fine and was careful to watch out for these limits, so last Saturday, while driving on Regional Road at 40 kms an hour, I was constantly harassed by other drivers who hooted and overtook me. Not one of them was driving at the suggested speed limit. Can the responsible authorities be a little more practical, please? Also, it's one thing having a speed limit during peak hours and another having to cope with it when the roads are virtually empty. I'm not against imposing limits, but in favour of them being a little more practical.

Maltese roads have become killing fields. Something needs to be done urgently!! Road accidents are becoming an epidemic!!

To David Aloisio... In the southern part of Malta we have the pot holes to limit speed.

To avoid the majority of head on collisions, roads must have a central strip with a guard rail.

Joseph

I tend to agree with you Mr Barbara however, I must say that while the roads never change... some drivers' imprudent behaviour at times does...

If one's life is not incentive enough to drive properly, I don't see how a speed camera can be!! Do we give more importance to fines (money) than to lives?

Speed cameras are there only to collect money. The roads in Malta including the recently built are there to help you have an accident by some means or another.

How come that there are no speed cameras in the Southern part of Malta?