A 57-year-old man from Ħamrun is in a critical condition after being hit by a car in Santa Venera yesterday at around noon.

The 27-year-old woman driver was behind the wheel of a Toyota Starlet. She hit the man in St Joseph High Road, from where he was rushed to hospital and found to be critically injured, the police said in a statement.

A magisterial inquiry is now under way.

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