Van crash leaves rider grievously hurt in Xewkija

A 26-year-old motorcyclist from Brazil, who lives in San Lawrenz, suffered grievous injuries after a collision with a van in Xewkija, Times of Malta reported.

Police said the crash happened at 9.10pm on Triq it-Tessuti. The rider was on a TVS motorbike when it was involved in a collision with a Ford Transit van driven by a 37-year-old man from Xagħra.

An emergency medical team treated the motorcyclist at the scene before he was taken by ambulance to Gozo General Hospital, where he was certified as having suffered grievous injuries.

Police investigations are underway.

For now, that is the public record: a time, a road, two vehicles and an injury serious enough to be formally classified as grievous. The fuller account of how the collision happened is still with the investigators.

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