Three motorcyclists were taken to Mater Dei Hospital with grievous injuries after separate traffic accidents in St Julian’s, Fgura and St Paul’s Bay, according to police.
The cases were not one pile-up or one blocked arterial road. They were three distinct crashes in three localities within about four hours, which is its own kind of warning: the risk was mobile.
Police said the first accident happened at about 5am in Triq Mikiel Anton Vassalli, St Julian’s, when a 35-year-old man from St Julian’s lost control of a Keeway Cityblade motorcycle and fell.
The second was reported at about 6.45am in Vjal l-Indipendenza, Fgura. Police said a Mercedes-Benz driven by a 50-year-old man from Mġarr collided with a Malaguti Centro 125 ridden by a 28-year-old man from Żabbar.
The third followed at about 9am in Triq il-Korp tal-Pijunieri, St Paul’s Bay. Police said it involved a Toyota Corolla driven by a 31-year-old man from Birkirkara and a Piaggio Vespa ridden by a 67-year-old man from St Paul’s Bay.
Medical teams assisted at all three scenes before the riders were transferred to hospital. Police said all three were certified as suffering from grievous injuries.
What the public has, for now, is the bare architecture of each case: where, roughly when and which vehicles were involved. That is enough to establish the seriousness of the morning’s toll, but not enough to flatten three separate incidents into one explanation. Police did not, in the account published by Lovin Malta, set out any common cause across the crashes.
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