A 29-year-old Hungarian man who was trapped in a car that fell into the water at the Ta’ Xbiex sea front is in critical condition, the police said this morning.
The accident took place at 4am this morning. In an update the Police said that the Hungarian's Opel Astra hit a parked Honda and plunged into the sea. A police constable and people on the scene jumped into the sea to assist the victim until Civil Protection officers brought the man ashore.
It is not the first incident of the sort. Parts of the Ta’ Xbiex sea front do not have boundary walls or obstacles between the land and the sea.