Bermuda's latest road death victim crashed through the windscreen of a truck last year ? and had only recovered from serious injury and got back on his bike again six months ago.

Andrew Kemp was left temporarily wheelchair-bound after he diced with death and survived the horrific crash.

But relatives of the 28-year-old Southampton resident were in mourning yesterday after another accident saw him become the Island's second motorcycle accident victim in just over a week.

The 11th death of 2005 left yet another family heartbroken, as horror returned to Bermuda's roads yet again.

Police said Mr. Kemp died after an early hours smash on South Road in his home parish of Southampton.

Officers were called to the single vehicle accident at 3.37 a.m. on Sunday after the victim was thrown from his bike and collided with a stone wall.

Mr. Kemp was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. But a Police spokesman said doctors confirmed the Bermudian died at 5.45 a.m.

Tributes last night flooded in for Mr. Kemp, who worked as a truck driver for a freight company.

Shocked Friends told how he had only got back on his bike around April after crashing through a truck windscreen last year at Lighthouse Hill, Southampton, and almost "breaking everything in his body".

Toni Bento, 20, said: "It's just so unfortunate.

"Andrew got into a bad accident last year and that was a lot worse than this one. He went through the windscreen of a truck and basically broke everything in his body.

"He was in a wheelchair and had only just got back on his bike a couple of months ago."

The Devonshire resident said Mr. Kemp would "do anything for anybody" and added: "He was a very kind individual. He would take his shirt off his back for anyone.

"You could talk to him about anything. He was very quiet and loving and will be missed by a lot of people."

Another close friend, Leanne Christie, 20, of Somerset Bridge, said music fan Mr. Kemp was popular, fun-loving and outgoing.

She added: "He was always trying to help others with their problems. He was a really good friend who was always there for me."

His mother, Cathy Kemp, told the Royal Gazette she was too upset to comment in detail last night. But speaking from the family house in Littleholme Lane, Southampton ? not far from the scene of the fatal crash ? she said her popular son would be badly missed.

"Andrew was really well loved by all of his friends," added Mrs. Kemp. Bermuda-born Mr. Kemp ? who went to the former Northlands Secondary School, Pembroke ? had been working as a truck driver at Fast Forward Freight, Devonshire.

He leaves three brothers and one sister, his mother confirmed. A memorial banner reading "RIP Booga" was unfurled at the accident scene yesterday afternoon by Mr. Kemp's brothers and was signed throughout an emotional day by tearful family and friends.

A Police spokesman said Mr. Kemp came off his bike at the junction of South Road and Cross Bay Road, near the luxury Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel. The spokesman added: "The rider was travelling west on South Road when it appears that he lost control of his cycle and collided with the nearside kerb.

"The rider was thrown from the cycle and collided into the nearside stone wall."

The spokesman said that Bermuda Police extended its deepest sympathies to the Kemp family. Yesterday's road tragedy came after Bermuda College student Shellee Smith died in an accident in Smith's last Friday morning.

The 18-year-old's motorcycle was in collision with a taxi on South Road at its junction with St. Mark's Road, Smith's. That accident saw the Island's road death toll rise to ten ? a grim statistic that grew worse this weekend after another black day on Bermuda's roads.

Mr. Kemp's death means that four more people have been killed on the highways this year compared to the whole of 2004. Last year seven lives were lost in road traffic crashes on the Island. Investigations have been launched into Sunday morning's South Road fatality. And anyone who witnessed the crash should call the Bermuda Police traffic enforcement unit on 2950011.