{"id":85559,"date":"2026-08-08T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/pedestrian-critical-motorcyclist-hospitalised-after-two-separate-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:57:00","slug":"pedestrian-critical-motorcyclist-hospitalised-after-two-separate-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/pedestrian-critical-motorcyclist-hospitalised-after-two-separate-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian critical, motorcyclist hospitalised after two separate accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian critical, motorcyclist hospitalised after two separate accident<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in an accident on Friday evening, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened in Triq Joe Scibberras in &#294;amrun, and preliminary investigations showed that a 69-year-old woman who lives in Pieta was hit by a Volkswagen Golf which was being driven by a 23-year-old man from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was rushed to Mater Dei Hospital and certified as suffering from serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Tanya Sammut is leading an inquiry into the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the evening, at 5pm in Vjal ir-Ri&#295;an in San &#288;wann, there was a crash between a Daihatsu Sirion being driven by a 44-year-old man from San &#288;wann and an Aprilia motorcycle being ridden by a 32-year-old man living in Birkirkara.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was taken to Mater Dei Hospital and was certified as suffering from grievous injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that investigations into both accidents are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-08-08\/local-news\/Pedestrian-critical-motorcyclist-hospitalised-after-two-separate-accident-6736291996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedestrian critical, motorcyclist hospitalised after two separate accident<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian critical, motorcyclist hospitalised after two separate accident A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in an accident on Friday evening, police said. The accident happened in Triq Joe Scibberras in&#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-85559","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\/85559"}],"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=85559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}