A call for an official inquiry into why the ADT failed to carry out a project which could have prevented three fatalities in a traffic accident in Zejtun last August, is to be debated in Parliament on Saturday.

The motion has been presented by Labour MP Helena Dalli.

It points out that Triq Anton Buttigieg in Zejtun, has long been the scene of fatal traffic accidents.

20-year-olds Jonathan Seychell, his girlfriend Roxana D'Anastasi and their three-year-old daughter Kelsey died there in a horrific accident last August.

The motion says that Zejtun Council and the Traffic Management Directorate within the then ADT had prepared plans for an upgrading of the street to address the safety issue. The plans were finalised more than 18 months ago and financial costings had also been drawn up.

Nonetheless the project was not carried out.

The project fell under the responsibility of the ADT, as the body responsible for road safety, the motion says, and, because the ADT had failed to assume its responsibilities, three people had died in an accident.

The motion calls on the government to: hold an inquiry on why the approved project was not carried out; establish who held up the project, and establish deadlines within which the upgrading would be started and completed.

The project will include the creation of traffic islands and other measures aimed at slowing traffic and preventing overtaking.

The Times reported on August 29 that over the past decade six people died on Anton Buttigieg Street.

Two of the victims were elderly pedestrians, two were drivers and the others were passengers, according to statistics provided by the police.