A police car parked in Paola for a roadcheck was the unlikely victim of a collision at 12.30am, which left a seven-year-old boy seriously injured.
A car driven by a 24-year-old man from Fgura crashed into a car driven by a 35-year-old woman from Senglea who had her son as a passenger, shunting it into the police car.
Police said that the woman was also slightly injured.