Stop when the lights turn red

On the morning of July 14, I received a telephone call from a member of my family who had just been witness to a nasty and unfortunate traffic accident that happened in Rue D'Argens corner with Sliema Road, where the traffic lights are. A motorcyclist was hit by a car driven by a woman who came out of Sliema Road (Marshall Court side). The unfortunate motorcyclist had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance suffering from apparent serious injuries to his legs.

Only three days before, I myself happened to be coming up the other way in my car, that is, going up Rue D'Argens, and I almost had the same mishap. I was waiting for the lights to turn green and when they did so I started moving on slowly but, suddenly, a car driven by a woman sped out of Sliema Road (Marshall Court side) across D'Argens Road over to the other part of Sliema Road. I have no words to express the shock I got, which I vented out by blasting the horn of my car! It was a close miss! Had I been going a bit faster the lady would have hit me directly on my car's right flank!

Unfortunately, over the last years there seems to be creeping in this malpractice of drivers not observing strictly the traffic lights signals; instead of stopping when the light turns amber, some reckless and irresponsible drivers opt to continue driving even when the light will have already turned red! I believe it is not only me that has been observing this malpractice. Consequently, I urge the authorities to take some sort of action. Maybe, wardens could be located at these busy junctions and book whoever does not strictly abide by the traffic lights directions.