Deliveryman seriously hurt in Sliema crash
A deliveryman was seriously injured on the Sliema seafront after a car crashed into his double-parked van while he was unloading cargo, police said.
Image: Times of Malta
A 57-year-old man from St Paul's Bay was seriously injured after he was struck by a car while unloading cargo from a van on Triq ix-Xatt in Sliema at about 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Police said the victim received first aid at the scene before he was taken by ambulance to Mater Dei Hospital.
Investigators said the car was a Peugeot 3008 driven by a 42-year-old Libyan man who lives in Birkirkara. The deliveryman had been unloading from an Isuzu Elf van when the crash happened.
The accident happened in a stretch where there are no unloading bays, police said. The road was closed after the collision, causing long traffic queues, and motorists were asked to avoid the area.
Update: in the days that followed, the collision became a flashpoint in Malta's transport debate, with Y-plate reforms pushed into the spotlight by this collision after Transport Malta convened an emergency meeting with ride-hailing operators.
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