**Watch: The moment car crashes into Marsa building** In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the usually quiet streets of Marsa were jolted awake by a thunderous crash that would soon become the talk of the town. A speeding vehicle lost control on Triq il-Marsa, slamming directly into the façade of a historic townhouse near…
Doctors, FSWS want cannabis driving limits instead of zero tolerance ————————————————————— By [Hot Malta Staff] | 09 June 2025, 07:30 CEST A white Toyota C-HR crawls along the Sliema front at 2 a.m., L-plates still gleaming. Inside, 22-year-old *“Luke”*—not his real name—hasn’t touched a joint for 14 hours, but the blood test at the roadside…
Safe driving through fair laws By Hot Malta staff It’s 7:45 a.m. on the Birkirkara bypass and the queue is already snaking past the wheat-coloured façades of Santa Venera. A white Toyota Vitz noses into the bus lane, indicator blinking like a guilty conscience. Half-a-dozen drivers honk; one flashes a “V” sign that has nothing…
Court overturns uninsured driving conviction after case is time-barred – a Maltese legal wake-up call By Sarah Vella, Hot Malta A €400 fine and six penalty points have been wiped off a Mellieħa driver’s record after Malta’s Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that prosecutors missed the two-year cut-off for pressing charges. The decision, handed down…
Two injured after rush-hour smash-up on Gżira seafront as shocked diners look on =============================================================================== Gżira’s normally breezy seafront turned into a scene of shattered glass and urgent sirens on Tuesday evening when a head-on collision between a white Toyota Vitz and a grey Suzuki Swift left two drivers injured and the whole neighbourhood rattled. The…
ARUC Says Cannabis Driving Tests Should Target ‘Impairment’ After Concerns Hot Malta, 12 June 2024 The island’s roads could soon see a shift in how police gauge cannabis impairment behind the wheel, after the Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis (ARUC) urged lawmakers to ditch blanket THC limits and focus instead on whether a…
Sicily Highway Horror Claims Two Maltese Lives: Doris & Manuel Buhagiar Remembered The tight-knit village of Żurrieq woke yesterday to the kind of news that stops conversations mid-sentence: Doris and Manuel Buhagiar, a couple celebrated for their infectious laughter and devotion to family, were killed on Sunday evening in a head-on collision on the A20…
Watch: How roadside drug tests will work in practice – and why every Maltese driver needs to pay attention Just after sunrise on a Thursday in Gżira, Transport Malta officers set up a discreet checkpoint beside the yacht marina. A queue of commuters inch forward, coffee cups in hand, when a plain-clothes officer waves a…
