Road Traffic Accidents: Q2/2025
The number of reported traffic accidents during the second quarter of 2025 reached 4,026, down by 9.2 per cent over the same period in 2024. The Northern Harbour district registered the most accidents with 1,366 cases or 33.9 per cent of all accidents (Table 1).
Road traffic casualties decreased by 16.1 per cent to 343 over the same period in 2024. Grievously injured persons amounted to 108, and consisted of 73 drivers, 13 passengers and 22 pedestrians/cyclists/others. The injuries suffered by three drivers, a pedestrian and a cyclist proved fatal (Tables 4-6). During this quarter, two more fatalities were registered when compared to the same period in 2024 (Chart 1).
The majority of those grievously injured were males (69.4 per cent). Moreover, the fatalities that occurred during this quarter involved four males and a female. With regard to age cohorts, 39.4 per cent of the casualties involved persons in the 26 to 40 age bracket (Chart 2 and Table 5).
The largest number of road traffic casualties (45.8 per cent) involved passenger cars, followed by motorcycles (42.9 per cent) and goods-carrying vehicles (4.1 per cent). The fatalities included a driver colliding with another vehicle, two drivers crashing into a property, a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle and a cyclist being hit by a vehicle. Cyclists involved in traffic accidents amounted to 13, where one suffered a fatal injury, three suffered grievous injuries and nine suffered slight injuries (Tables 6-7). Road traffic casualties resulting from accidents between vehicles topped the list with 63.6 per cent of all road traffic casualties (Table 7).
The highest number of road traffic casualties occurred on Thursdays with 58 casualties, and the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred on Tuesdays with 645 cases or 16.0 per cent of the total (Table 8). The time bracket with the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred between 09:00 – 11:59 with 884 cases or 22.0 per cent of the total, followed by the 12:00 – 14:59 time bracket with 880 cases. The least number of accidents occurring daily took place between 03:00 – 05:59 with 33 cases (Table 9).
Chart 1. Road traffic accidents and fatalities by period
The highest incidence of road traffic accidents was registered in San Pawl Il-Baħar with 240 cases, followed by Birkirkara and Ħal Qormi, with 226 and 210 cases respectively (Table 10, Map 1 and Chart 5).
L-Imdina, L-Għarb, L-Għasri, Ta’ Kerċem and Il-Fontana registered less than five road traffic accidents. (Map 1 and Table 10).
Map 1. Road traffic accidents by locality: April-June 2025
All districts recorded a decrease in road traffic accidents when compared to the second quarter of the previous year. The South Eastern district registered the highest percentage decrease in road traffic accidents at 15.7 per cent, whereas the Southern Harbour district recorded the lowest percentage decrease at 1.2 per cent (Table 1 and Map 2).
Map 2. Percentage change in road traffic accidents by district: April-June 2025
Additional Tables and Charts
Tables
Chart 2. Road traffic casualties by age group and gender
April-June 2025
Chart 3. Percentage distribution of road traffic casualties by day of the week
April-June 2025
Note: Percentages may not add up due to rounding.
Chart 4. Road traffic accidents by time bracket and day of the week
April-June 2025
Chart 5. Top 10 localities for road traffic accidents
April-June 2025
Methodological Notes
1. Road traffic accidents data is compiled from administrative information provided by the Malta Police Force and the Malta Insurance Association (LESA).
2. Definitions:
a. Total road traffic accidents consist of the road traffic accidents involving casualties (police reports) and the minor road traffic accidents without casualties (police and warden reports).
b. Non-injury (minor) road traffic accidents refer to accidents assessed by wardens and/or the police involving at least one vehicle and in which no persons are injured. Non-injury road traffic accidents which are either not reported or directly reported to insurance agencies by means of the Traffic Accident Form (i.e. where no police or wardens are called on the accident scene and are settled by the completion of the relevant form) are not accounted for.
c. Insignificant injury is determined by the police as the sustaining of a very minimal injury (e.g. bruise, scratch, etc.) or shock due to accident which, in most cases, requires very basic treatment or no treatment at all.
d. The definition of slight injury is as listed in Art. 221 et sequitur of the Criminal Code, Chapter 9 of the Laws of Malta.
e. The definition of grievous injury is as listed in Art. 216 et sequitur of the Criminal Code, Chapter 9 of the Laws of Malta.
f. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) defines road fatal injury as: “Any person who was killed outright or who died within 30 days as a result of the accident”.
g. Road traffic accident fatalities data may be subject to revisions. For certain cases, the NSO may need to wait for the cause of the fatality to be duly established by the conclusions of a magisterial inquiry.
3. The casualty-to-accident ratio indicates the risk level of suffering an injury in an accident. Therefore, a higher percentage rate means that the corresponding accidents were more serious (i.e. more persons were injured).
4. Data is subject to revision.
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Road Traffic Accidents: Q2/2025
- There were five road traffic fatalities involving four males and a female during April-June 2025.
- During the second quarter of 2025, road traffic accidents decreased by 9.2 per cent, and casualties decreased by 16.1 per cent, when compared to the same period in 2024.
- Between April-June 2025, the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred on Tuesdays with 645 cases or 16.0 per cent of the total.
- San Pawl Il-Baħar registered the highest number of road traffic accidents at 240 cases.
