Updated: Five injured in traffic accident

Alessandro Aquilina

Dec 26th 2009, 20:04

I'm sorry for the passengers of the Hyundai ..... I know them all ...... the driver is my cousin ..... and for sure I know that he don't drink alcohol when he is going to drive ....... GOD BE WITH YOU ......

Ivan Visanich

Dec 26th 2009, 17:27

@ j. Scerri Both of them are dangerous,but if we have decent roads where one can overtake safely and hefty fines for offenders not silly 60 euro fines we will definetly have better motorists but still driving at 30 or a 100 can still cause nasty accidents......To make roads safer,we have to have better driving tests where learners can learn how to control the car once it starts to lose control,secondly I would do that before the age of 21 the driver can't drive a car with more than a 1000cc's or a 100 cc if it's a motorcycle,those caught will have their licence taken.Also before we blame the drivers does anyone know what state the cars were in ?.Were the tyres bald ?,did the brakes function perfectly ?.Are the VRT tests seriously taken ?.Junks that are too far gone even for a scrapyard can still be seen being driven around.How are these vehicles still on the road ?.Just before we say that speed kills there are many other points to tackle .... Speed does not kill,it is how we drive the car and how we're able to handle it that matters.

J .Scerri

Dec 26th 2009, 15:59

@ Ivan Visanich :

So in what you wrote in your posting, I'm assuming that for you is more dangerous to find a slow driver in front of you instead of a STREET-PIRATE going in a secondary street or a neighberhood area at an approx. 100 km/h behind you. Is that what you meant ?

If someone gives me the choice to meet either a driver who drives slowly in the outer lane, (he/she surely is interfiering but minimally on the road safety). or a COWBOW that goes around thinking he's in the Indianapolis or MonteCarlo F1 Track, I rather prefer to meet the first one, even speaking as a pedestrian (not only as a driver).

And as I stated before, to control all these 'YOUNG F1 PILOTS' we have in our streets from hurting themselves (and most important, stop hurting others), The Italian law is the most suitable. Do you want to bet that everyone will drive carefully in such circumstance then ?

Ivan Visanich

Dec 26th 2009, 08:18

@ J.Scerri ... What do you mean by saying that ?,quoting,'' If you see their ages, they are all under 35 years so in simple words 99% of the cases, the No.1 cause is that of access speeding ''.So some bloggers write that the driving test should go up from 18 to 21 and you're saying that since drivers were under 35 the likely cause was speeding....Haven't you ever seen 60 year olds and more with poor vision driving painfully slow in the middle or outer lane in a car that looks like it's been imported from Afganisthan ?.Those are the worst drivers.And if the cosat road is the likely cause of these accidents instead of placing ridiculous Black spot signs why doesn't the authorities widen such roads and convert them into two lane on each side where one could easily overtake ?.We are only interested here in those cash cows,the Speed cameras which are a complete and utter joke.

J. Scerri

Dec 25th 2009, 20:40

I fully agree with C Cassar in this matter. Fair enough that here, someone pointed out that , the alcohol was not the cause of this accident. But after hearing nearly every morning in the news that someone drove ond hit a tree or a garage etc. it's beginning to be very dangerous. And the REAL shame is not that the driver who is driving carelessly had the accident (If you see their ages, they are all under 35 years so in simple words 99% of the cases, the No.1 cause is that of access speeding) but of someone who stick to the driving regulations & finishes injured/killed only because the other driver is either under the influence of Alcohol/Drugs or because he/she is driving at ILLEGAL speed. I think that the only solution here is to introduce the italian Law in driving. And it's quite simple to integrate in our Laws, every driver have a certain number of points & for every driving infraction he/she makes, he/she'll lose from them until they are finished. At that point then, that driver has to wait for 6 months to do another (and more difficult) driving test again,

M. Farrugia

Dec 25th 2009, 20:35

Ghalfejn hadtuha kontra C Cassar ghax staqsa. Normalment meta jigri xi incident ir-rapport inkun is-sewwieq tilef il-kontra tal-karozza u rari jghid li kien taht l-influenza tax-xorb jew xi sustanza oħra. Is-sur Zammit Alamango infurmana li it-testijiet saru , il-pulizija ma qalet xejn, dwar it-testijiet. Ma nafx jekk is-sur Zammit ghamilx it-testijiet huwa, jew kienx prezenti waqt il-hin tal-accident.

N Zammit Alamango

Dec 25th 2009, 19:55

@ C Cassar I would like to put your mind at rest that I do not take drinking and driving lightly. The only point I tried to bring out in my previous post was not to jump to conclusion.

C Cassar

Dec 25th 2009, 18:36

@ Ricardo Flask & N Zammit Alamango: While you may take drinking/drug driving lightly (as clearly so many do in Malta), some of us take it alot more seriously. If those that were driving in this incident were breathalysed/tested for drugs the news item would have included that information. Sooner or later Malta will come up to the road regulation standards of most of the other EU countries. I hope it will be sooner for the families that will inevitably lose out.

Riccardo Flask

Dec 25th 2009, 17:34

@ Cassar....

Is it really an issue to feed your curiosity about whether the drivers were under the effect of any illegal substance (alcohol in this case). If the drivers were drunk I think it would have been included in news item... Luckily no one died!

John Tabone

Dec 25th 2009, 17:12

This road is a trap for drivers, something needs to be done immediately!

K Pace

Dec 25th 2009, 16:53

This road needs central strips to prevent people from running into others' lane. Being too curvy the road gives no place for overtaking, hence the central strip requirments.

M.Ellul

Dec 25th 2009, 14:17

Either policing this road at this time of year or make a temporary central barrier.

N Zammit Alamango

Dec 25th 2009, 12:23

May I inform Mr C Cassar that tests were carried out and the results were negative!

I hope it answers your query!

C Cassar

Dec 25th 2009, 11:33

and details if anyone was breathalysed and if so, what were the results?