'The life of the party’: best friend pays tribute to victim of fatal crash

A party was no party without Ben Laferla, the 21-year-old who died following a car crash in Swieqi on Saturday, his best friend has said.
Ben was “the life of the party” and was planning to pursue a career as a producer of techno music, Ben Vella said as he paid a sad and affectionate tribute to his friend.
“Ben was very, very, very loud… like… he would not shut up. A party would not be a party without him,” he said.
The rented car in which Ben Laferla was a passenger.
Laferla, of Naxxar, died early on Wednesday morning after suffering serious injuries in a crash on Triq il-Madliena on Saturday at 1.30am. He was a passenger in a rented Renault Zoe being driven by a 17-year-old girl from St Paul’s Bay, who was slightly injured in the accident.
Inside the car were two other passengers – a greviously injured 19-year-old Chilean woman, who lives in St Julian’s, and a 20-year-old Swiss man from Swieqi who suffered slight injuries.

It is not clear who rented the car. It belonged to ride-sharing company GoTo Malta, which requires users to register using a valid driving licence. 
Vella, 20, said he met Laferla in 2016 when they played waterpolo for Sliema. They remained close friends,...