
Thursday, 4th September 2008
Five injured in four road accidents
A man suffered grievous injuries and another four were slightly hurt in four traffic accidents early yesterday morning when the roads were wet with the first downpour of the season.
The first happened at about 1.30 a.m., when a 21-year-old man from Fgura lost control of his Hyundai Pony in Karwija Road, Safi.
As a result, the car hit a rubble wall and overturned, slightly injuring the driver.
The police said the vehicle was considerably damaged.
A 23-year-old man from Qormi lost control of his Skoda Octavia and ended up in a field along the Coast Road, Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq. Although the car was extensively damaged, the driver only sustained slight injuries.
In the third accident, a 26-year-old Naxxar man and a 20-year-old woman from Żurrieq suffered slight injuries when the Ducati motorcycle they were riding in Labour Road, Naxxar, went out of control. The accident occurred at about 2.30 a.m.
The fourth accident occurred about 30 minutes later in Mdina Road, Attard. A 57-year-old man from Mtarfa lost control of his Hyundai Accent and the car overturned, grievously injuring him.







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When it rains, it's simple, slow down and look ahead. Don't follow the car in front of you leaving 2 metres distance. This seems to be an alien concept to most drivers in Malta :)
Way to go C Cassar. Let no one accuse you of chauvinism.
Tyres are affected by extreme heat, and it seems most peple in Malta are happy to drive on cheap imported re-moulds. Tyres do not last forever and from my experiance of the cars I have driven in Malta too many people do not change them because they "look ok".
Go to a competent Mechanic, or in fact any motosport enthusiast and learn how important your tyres are in the rain, no just for grip but for stopping ability too.
So, i would say there is something wrong with our roads. Alahares whenever there's rain abroad, there are so many accidents cause mainly its raining and worse .. they have snow!!
Indicators? Wardens? No no, its the DRIVERS! Plain and simple!
It really doesnt take a brain surgeon to realise that when its wet, slow down. Braking hard is much more difficult in wet conditions and the vehicle is more suseptable to skidding.
Never using indicators, hogging the outside lane of a 2 lane carriageway, broken/missing brake lights, broken/missing headlamps, pulling out in front of other traffic without the right of way, following the car in front too closely, using mobile phones whilst driving (in particular females), illegal parking causing an obstruction, worn out tyres. Need I go on?
Can someone here please ask me why they don't use their indiactors when turning in Malta? This is such a common occurence in Malta thata significant percentage of Times readers must fall into this category, so please, why don't you use them? I'm fascinated with your replies.
Also, there must be a few traffic police that read the times. Why oh why don't you stop vehicles that are clearly unroadworthy? I've followed police cars who are following cars with complete light units missing from the car or with the driver clearly on a mobile phone but the police do nothing about it. Again, please tell me why you don't do anything when it's directly in front of you? - Im all ears.