21-year-old who crashed motorcycle in Pembroke dies
Italian rider becomes 19th road fatality of the year
A motorcyclist who crashed in Pembroke at 5.30am on Thursday has died, the police said in a brief statement on Saturday.
The 21-year-old Italian man crashed his Kymco Agility motorbike into a concrete barrier on Triq Sant’ Andrija and was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.
Despite medical teams’ best efforts, he subsequently died in hospital.
The motorcyclist is the 19th person to die as a result of traffic incidents this year, and the second motorcyclist to die this past week.
In a separate, unrelated incident, a motorcyclist was killed by an underage driver who fled the scene last Sunday morning. The driver was subsequently caught, arrested and charged with manslaughter.