Five people were injured, none of them seriously in a head-on collision at the Coast Road in Bahar ic-Caghaq at about 4.45 a.m.
The four people who had been in a Hyundai, driven by a 30-year-old man from Marsa, are receiving medical treatment and the 27-year-old driver of the Toyota Corsa, from Mellieha, who was on his own, suffered fractures, the police said.
All five were taken to hospital by ambulance. Both cars were extensively damaged.