
Tuesday, 20th May 2008 - 08:42CET
Updated: Woman injured in second serious accident in 12 hours
(Adds nationality, condition of victims)
A 23-year-old Iraqi woman was critically injured in a traffic accident in Luqa this morning, the second major traffic accident in under 12 hours.
The woman was a passenger in a car which was involved in a collision with a trailer in Garibaldi Street, Luqa, the police said. Her condition has since stabilised.
A 28-year-old Syrian man who was driving the car was also injured but his condition has also improved.
The accident happened at about 5.15 a.m. and created long traffic jams during the morning rush hour.
The trailer driver was not injured.
Magistrate Tonio Micallef Trigona is heading an inquiry.
A 56-year-old woman from Cospicua suffered life threatening injuries when she was hit by a car in Vittoriosa yesterday evening.




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However, in an attempt to look beyond the immediate picture, it seems that the officers are probably standing out of the way of what seems to be a tow truck, which is what happens in these circumstances.
What really annoys me is that there seems to be no roadguard vests worn by anybody, and there are no markings on the road, as is usual from an accident investigation, and no barier tape.
It seems that the truck is blocking both carriageways. So, where there any flagmen slowing down traffic. when the obstruction was caused, or was it the usual laissez faire attitude adopted by a lot of people on our dear islands, and the procedure was done without any job safety analysis being done. If this is the case, the company, owning the truck, is culpable of negligence under the health and safety act, and should be prosecuted.
besides the obvious connotation to the beatles song "a day in the life", we have Pretty policeman standing in a row, from "I Am the Walrus" ..
no seriously, what are they supposedly doing there...