A 43-year-old man from Mellieħa is in critical condition after a head-on collision in Mosta between his Maruti Omni van and a Lada Samara driven by a 42-year-old man.
The accident took place in Maltese Missionaries Road at about 4.50 p.m. yesterday. The Lada driver, from St Paul's Bay, was in the car with his 37-year-old wife and six-year-old son.
All three were unharmed, the police said.
The road was closed off to traffic, marking the second serious accident along this road in the space of a week. Three men and a woman were hospitalised after a head-on collision between a car and a van on June 20.
Magistrate Doreen Clarke was informed of the accident and is holding an inquiry.