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Young driver has lucky escape

A young driver was lucky to escape without serious injury this afternoon when the Subaru he was driving clipped a pavement and overturned.

The accident happened on the coast road near the Coastline Hotel at about 4 p.m..

An ambulance was on the scene but the man only had slight injuries to an arm.

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Peter Korsten

Mar 16th 2010, 09:06

Oh, come on. The coast road is one of the worst laid out roads in Malta. If the road turns to the left, it actually banks to the right!

That's not to say that whenever I take that road (which I try to keep to an absolute minimum) there are ALWAYS drivers doing crazy things, but a lot of blame falls on the roads.

And smaller cars having more trouble taking curves than big cars? You've just re-invented physics. It's exactly the other way around.

jcmicallef

Mar 16th 2010, 15:03

3 cheers for Peter Korsten - excellent comments and good observations.

As a keen motoring and motor racing enthusiast I am very aware of such shortcomings in the roads and the Coast Road's sweeping corners with the wrong banking are a real peril.

Despite everything, we do manage to organise legal road races on a stretch of the this road. (Watch youtube.com, search malta coast road, or hill climb or sprint).

Edward Vella

Mar 15th 2010, 22:38

Over the past 2-3 years that i have been driving i noticed how nervous it gets a driver when the pedestrian thinks he owns the road. i believe wardens should start giving warnings and then fines to such pedestrians, its hardly seen in other countries,

Elaine Compagno

Mar 15th 2010, 20:53

That's what I thought.. seems like he went across the lane, hit the curb and overturned. Losing control isn't always down to speed. I was once driving, after having just serviced my car when the "mechanic" left a bolt missing in my break caliper, and as I was passing through St Venera tunnel I pressed down on my break and my foot slowly went all the way down leaving me with no brakes! I was barely doing 50 kph at the time and about to hit an incline, but what if I were approaching a hairpin bend like the one above? Bowsers skid, cranes fall, trains crash and boats sink. Sometimes, just happens! I just hope I'm not in the way when it does!

C Azzopardi

Mar 16th 2010, 01:30

I am a young driver, and today, a driver in his forties as going to crash into me because he decided he had the right to not slow down on a GIVE WAY sign and pass through, even with me coming. Every time I was going to get hit by someone who did not respect traffic signs, the other driver would have been in the 40's or over.

Can we stop all this blabber about young drivers being dangerous? Yes there are some young drivers which are dangerous, but there are the same amount which are not young drivers.

Also where I live, there's a dangerous road, and frequently there are accidents. MOST of them do not involve young drivers, but non-young drivers. So please, lets stop generalizing?

chris mizzi

Mar 15th 2010, 18:56

Proved right again. height of pavements are there to protect pedestrians.

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