A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Santa Venera on Thursday evening, the police said.

The accident took place in St Joseph High Road at 8.40pm.

The biker, a 36-year-old man of St Paul’s Bay, was riding a Harley Davidson Roadster which was involved in a crash with a Vauxhall Zafira driven by a 23-year-old Briton resident in Gharghur.

The biker was taken to hospital with serious injuries.