Youth smashes into police motorbike as he tries to flee Ħamrun search

Updated at 4.38pm

Police officers who stopped a young driver in Ħamrun on Saturday narrowly avoided getting run over after the youth refused to cooperate and tried to flee the scene.

Sources told Times of Malta that the young man, a 24-year-old from Tarxien with a history of other traffic offences, was driving along St Joseph High Street when officers noticed that the windows on his Mitsubishi Shogun SUV were all darkly tinted.

The traffic division officers stopped the driver and ordered him to turn off the engine.

Instead of complying, the driver hit the accelerator, smashed into a police motorcycle and narrowly missed two officers.

Officers quickly surrounded the vehicle and brought the situation under control, with the help of Rapid Intervention Unit officers who were called to the scene.

Nobody was hurt in the incident and the youth is now under arrest, the police said.