Pedestrian seriously injured after motorbike collision in Mosta

The accident happened at 3.45pm, according to police. The man, who had not yet been identified, was hit by a Yamaha 125 driven by a 25-year-old man from St Paul’s Bay.

Both men were taken to Mater Dei Hospital for treatment. Police said the pedestrian suffered serious injuries, while the motorcyclist’s condition had not yet been established.

The confirmed record is still thin, which is often the case in the first police account of a road collision: a place, a time, a vehicle, two people taken to hospital. What gives it weight is the one detail least open to softening, that the pedestrian’s injuries were serious.

Police said investigations are under way.

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