The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers today.

Times of Malta reports that Malta registered the largest per capita increase in road deaths in the EU in 2016, with fatalities doubling over the previous year, according to a new European report.

The Malta Independent says that according to drivers, spectators who were injured during a hillclimb race in Sicily on Sunday were standing in a prohibited area.

l-orrizont reports that foreign investment in Malta reached €150 billion last year. It also says that the Kappara Junction project will be inaugurated in September,

In-Nazzjon leads with an account by a woman who is about to complete a prison term. She says the prison destroys people rather than rehabilitates them, and leaving prison means being free of drugs.