Road Traffic Accidents: Q4/2025
The number of reported traffic accidents during the fourth quarter of 2025 reached 3,694, down by 6.7 per cent over the same period in 2024. The Northern Harbour district registered the most accidents with 1,200 cases or 32.5 per cent of all accidents (Table 1).
Road traffic casualties decreased by 10.8 per cent to 332 over the same period in 2024. Grievously injured persons amounted to 103, and consisted of 60 drivers, 12 passengers and 31 pedestrians/cyclists/others.
The injuries suffered by two drivers proved fatal (Tables 4-6). During this quarter, one less fatality was recorded when compared to the corresponding period in 2024 (Chart 1).
The majority of those grievously injured were males (65.1 per cent). Moreover, the fatalities that occurred during this quarter involved one male and one female. With regard to age cohorts, 28.6 per cent of the casualties involved persons in the 41 to 59 age bracket (Chart 2 and Table 5).
The largest number of road traffic casualties (48.5 per cent) involved passenger cars, followed by motorcycles (40.1 per cent) and goods-carrying vehicles (6.3 per cent). The fatalities included two drivers colliding with another vehicle. Cyclists involved in traffic accidents amounted to nine, where three suffered grievous injuries, five suffered slight injuries and one suffered insignificant injuries (Tables 6-7). Road traffic casualties resulting from accidents between vehicles topped the list with 59.6 per cent of all road traffic casualties (Table 7).
The highest number of road traffic casualties occurred on Mondays with 59 casualties, and the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred on Fridays with 609 cases or 16.5 per cent of the total (Table 8). The time bracket with the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred between 12:00 – 14:59 with 844 cases or 22.9 per cent of the total, followed by the 09:00 – 11:59 time bracket with 843 cases. The least number of accidents occurring daily took place between 00:00 – 02:59 with 56 cases (Table 9).
The highest incidence of road traffic accidents was registered in Ħal Qormi with 202 cases, followed by Birkirkara and Il-Marsa, with 201 and 183 cases respectively (Table 10, Map 1 and Chart 5).
Il-Kalkara, Il-Fontana, San Lawrenz and L-Għasri registered less than five road traffic accidents. (Map 1 and Table 10).
Map 1. Road traffic accidents by locality: October-December 2025
All districts recorded a decrease in road traffic accidents, except the South Eastern and Gozo and Comino districts, when compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year. The Northern district registered the highest percentage decrease in road traffic accidents at 17.1 per cent, whereas the Gozo and Comino district recorded the highest percentage increase at 20.1 per cent (Table 1 and Map 2).
October-December 2025/2024
Annual Perspective
The number of fatalities during 2025 reached 18, up by six when compared to the previous year (Chart 1). In 2025, the reported injury accidents amounted to 1,153, a decrease of 131 accidents, or 10.2 per cent when compared to 2024. Moreover, non-injury accidents amounted to 13,951, a decrease of 1,368 accidents or 8.9 per cent over the cases reported during previous year (Tables 2-3). The second quarter of 2025 recorded the highest number of accidents (4,026) while the third quarter of 2025 recorded the highest number of fatalities (7) (Chart 1).
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Note: Percentages may not add up due to rounding.
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: Q4/2025
- There were two road traffic fatalities involving one male and one female during October-December 2025.
- During the fourth quarter of 2025, road traffic accidents decreased by 6.7 per cent, and casualties decreased by 10.8 per cent, when compared to the same period in 2024.
- Between October-December 2025, the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred on Friday with 609 cases or 16.5 per cent of the total.
- Ħal Qormi registered the highest number of road traffic accidents at 202 cases.
