Woman killed in freak St Julian's accident
Victim's daughter was in car when tragedy struck
Updated on Friday at 7.45am
A 38-year-old mother was killed in St Julian's on Thursday, after her car rolled back and crushed her, according to witnesses.
She was later named as Chantalle Gauci.
Sources told Times of Malta her daughter, aged six, was inside the vehicle, an Audi, at the time of the accident in Triq L-Arċisqof Romero, just off Birkirkara Road.
It is still not clear what led the car to roll backwards.
The woman, from St Julian's, was somewhat trapped by the moving vehicle and suffered fatal injuries.
Medical teams rushed to the scene, but she was pronounced dead on site.
As news of the tragedy spread, distraught family members arrived at the scene.
Police and forensic experts cordoned off the area to conduct further investigations.
The child is believed to be unharmed.
A man who was close to the site of the accident told Times of Malta: "I heard a big bang and I saw a lot of people gathering around the woman who was bleeding".
"I quickly called an ambulance, which arrived within minutes."
At 7pm, the road was still closed to traffic.
In a police statement on Friday, Magistrate Anthony Agius Bonnici opened an inquiry into the crash and appointed a number of experts to assist him in the inquiry.
Police investigations are ongoing.
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