Warnings on dangerous driving ignored for years, says mayor with injured sister
The Qrendi local council has for years been warning about dangerous driving taking place on its main roads but nobody ever listened, an angry mayor charged after his sister was among five people injured on a bus stop.
One of them was critically hurt but his sister was in stable condition, mayor David Schembri said.
He spoke to Times of Malta after four elderly pedestrians were hit by a car while they were waiting for a bus on Triq it-Tempesta at 8.45am on Wednesday.
The police said the driver of a Mercedez Benz lost control of the car and crashed into a parked Toyota Vitz. On impact, the Toyota then hit four women waiting at a nearby bus stop.
The women, aged 62, 66, 68 and 88, and the Mercedes driver, 44, were hospitalised, with doctors saying later that the 62-year-old was in critical condition.
“I want to go public with the issue which we have to deal with daily: dangerous driving on our roads,” Schembri said.
“They’re a group of friends who like to go out together and that is what they were doing. I’m not just speaking out because one of the victims is my sister but because we’ve all had enough.”
The scene of the accident in Qrendi on Wednesday, when four women standing at...