Road Traffic Accidents: Q1/2025
The number of reported traffic accidents during the first quarter of 2025 reached 3,468, down by 9.0 per cent over the same period in 2024. The Northern Harbour district registered the most accidents with 1,178 cases or 34.0 per cent of all accidents (Table 1).
Road traffic casualties decreased by 11.9 per cent to 297 over the same period in 2024. Grievously injured persons amounted to 78, and consisted of 42 drivers, 13 passengers and 23 pedestrians/cyclists/others. The injuries suffered by three drivers and one pedestrian proved fatal (Tables 4-6). During this quarter, three more fatalities were registered when compared to the same period in 2024 (Chart 1).
The majority of those grievously injured were males (69.2 per cent). Moreover, the fatalities that occurred during this quarter involved three males and one female. With regard to age cohorts, 33.7 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 (51.9 per cent) involved passenger cars, followed by motorcycles (31.6 per cent) and goods-carrying vehicles (8.1 per cent). The fatalities included three drivers crashing into a property and a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle. Cyclists involved in traffic accidents amounted to six, where three suffered grievous injuries and three suffered slight injuries (Tables 6-7). Road traffic casualties resulting from accidents between vehicles topped the list with 65.0 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 564 cases or 16.3 per cent of the total (Table 8). The highest number of road traffic accidents occurred between 09:00 and 11:59, with 778 cases or 22.4 per cent of the total, followed by those occurring between 15:00 and 17:59, with 755 cases. The lowest number of accidents occurring daily took place between 03:00 and 05:59, with 53 cases (Table 9).
Chart 1. Road traffic accidents and fatalities by period
Map 1. Road traffic accidents by locality: January-March 2025
Map 2. Percentage change in road traffic accidents by district: January-March 2025
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Chart 2. Road traffic casualties by age group and gender
January-March 2025
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Chart 3. Percentage distribution of road traffic casualties by day of the week
January-March 2025
Note: Percentages may not add up due to rounding.
Chart 4. Road traffic accidents by time bracket and day of the week
January-March 2025
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Chart 5. Top 10 localities for road traffic accidents
January-March 2025
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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 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: Q1/2025
- There were four road traffic fatalities involving three males and one female during January-March 2025.
- During the first quarter of 2025, road traffic accidents decreased by 9.0 per cent, and casualties decreased by 11.9 per cent, when compared to the same period in 2024.
- Between January-March 2025, the highest number of road traffic accidents occurred on Fridays with 564 cases or 16.3 per cent of the total.
- Birkirkara registered the highest number of road traffic accidents at 215 cases.
