{"id":85253,"date":"2026-07-18T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/motorcyclist-grievously-injured-in-birkirkara-collision\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:10:00","slug":"motorcyclist-grievously-injured-in-birkirkara-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/motorcyclist-grievously-injured-in-birkirkara-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist grievously injured in Birkirkara collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorcyclist grievously injured in Birkirkara collision<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_8c33f698af93eb5d-25\" data-path-to-node=\"1\">A 28-year-old man was hospitalised with grievous injuries following a traffic collision in Birkirkara on Saturday morning, the police said.<sup><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_8c33f698af93eb5d-26\" data-path-to-node=\"2\">The accident occurred at approximately 11am on Triq Fleur-de-Lys.<sup><\/sup> Preliminary police investigations indicate that a collision took place between an Isuzu Elf van, driven by a 64-year-old man from Birkirkara, and a Surron Ultra Bee motorcycle ridden by the 28-year-old victim, who resides in Balzan.<sup><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_8c33f698af93eb5d-27\" data-path-to-node=\"3\">A medical team was dispatched to the scene, and the motorcyclist was transported to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance.<sup><\/sup> He was later certified to have suffered grievous injuries.<sup><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_8c33f698af93eb5d-28\" data-path-to-node=\"4\">Police investigations into the accident are currently ongoing.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-07-18\/local-news\/Motorcyclist-grievously-injured-in-Birkirkara-collision-6736291482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motorcyclist grievously injured in Birkirkara collision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorcyclist grievously injured in Birkirkara collision A 28-year-old man was hospitalised with grievous injuries following a traffic collision in Birkirkara on Saturday morning, the police said. The accident occurred at approximately 11am on Triq Fleur-de-Lys&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-85253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}