A 28-year-old woman and her seven-year-old son ended up in hospital, suffering from broken bones, in the third traffic accident in St Andrew's Road in the space of a few days.

The police said the accident happened in Swieqi at about 1 a.m. yesterday when a 22-year-old man lost control of his Honda, crossed the central strip and collided with the woman's Daihatsu coming in the opposite direction. Her son was a passenger in her car.

An ambulance took the man, the woman and the boy to hospital where it was established that they had sustained fractures, although none of them was in critical condition. Both cars were considerably damaged. On Saturday a 33-year-old man died and three others were rushed to hospital after a head-on collision involving two vehicles in St Andrew's Road at 12.15 a.m.

And last Tuesday a 28-year-old man suffered serious injuries after losing control of a refuse truck, hitting a wall and overturning onto its side just up from the Forum Hotel.

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