{"id":86068,"date":"2026-09-14T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/87-year-old-man-suffers-serious-injuries-in-st-pauls-bay-traffic-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:48:00","slug":"87-year-old-man-suffers-serious-injuries-in-st-pauls-bay-traffic-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/87-year-old-man-suffers-serious-injuries-in-st-pauls-bay-traffic-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"87-year-old man suffers serious injuries in St Paul&#039;s Bay traffic accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>87-year-old man suffers serious injuries in St Paul&#039;s Bay traffic accident<\/p>\n<p>An 87-year-old man from St Paul&#8217;s Bay suffered serious injuries after being involved in a traffic accident in the locality on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at around 1:30pm in Triq San &#288;lormu, St Paul&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial police investigations, the elderly man was struck by a Ford Transit being driven by a 40-year-old man from Rabat, Gozo.<\/p>\n<p>A medical team provided assistance at the scene before the injured man was taken to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance. He was later certified as having sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Duty Magistrate Dr Renata Farrugia LL.D. was informed of the case and opened a magisterial inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations into the circumstances surrounding the accident are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-09-14\/local-news\/87-year-old-man-suffers-serious-injuries-in-St-Paul-s-Bay-traffic-accident-6736292883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">87-year-old man suffers serious injuries in St Paul&#039;s Bay traffic accident<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>87-year-old man suffers serious injuries in St Paul&#039;s Bay traffic accident An 87-year-old man from St Paul&#8217;s Bay suffered serious injuries after being involved in a traffic accident in the locality on Monday afternoon. The&#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-86068","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\/86068"}],"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=86068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}