The police said today that a policeman who died in a traffic accident yesterday had suffered a rupture of the aorta and a fractured spine. The aorta is the largest artery which pumps blood out of the heart.
Father-of-two Dennis Sammut, 53, died in the wreckage of his Ford Focus after a head-on collision with a truck-trailer. The incident took place in Margaret A. Murray Street in Naxxar.
The autopsy was held today.