A 38-year-old Canadian tourists' holiday was tragically cut short early yesterday morning when he was killed in a motorcycle accident near Crow Lane Bakery.

Michael Taylor, from Ontario who was on the Island visiting his sister, is the second person to die on Bermuda's roads this week and the second road fatality this year.

Police spokesman, Dwayne Caines said Police and emergency crews responded to a call of a single vehicle collision on Crow Lane in Devonshire at about 12.40 a.m. yesterday. The call had been made from a public telephone.

When Police arrived on the scene they found an unresponsive Mr. Taylor lying in the left lane along with his rental cycle.

He was treated on the scene by Emergency Medical Technicians before being rushed to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead by an on-call physician at 12.55 a.m.

Mr. Caines said it appeared Mr. Taylor was travelling South on Crow Lane when he attempted to negotiate a right-hand bend near the junction of Corkscrew Hill.

He said Mr. Taylor apparently collided with the curb on the left hand side of the road and lost control of the rental cycle.

Police are appealing to any witnesses to this incident, or anyone with information to contact Pc Cletus Cyris on 295-001.

In a strange turn of events Mr. Taylor had been one of several people interviewed by The Royal Gazette in a special Valentine's Day street survey on Thursday afternoon, just hours before his death.

Mr. Taylor was friendly and smiled in greeting when he saw the press walking through the Washington Mall.

He appeared to be waiting for someone shopping inside one of the stores when we stopped to ask him about about Valentine's Day.

He replied that he considered every day to be Valentine's Day and thought flowers and other traditional gifts were the ideal way to spoil the one you love. He added with a smile that the most exorbitant gift he'd ever bought anyone on Valentine's Day was a diamond ring.

It came as a shock to everyone at the newspaper yesterday to hear that Mr. Taylor had died less than eight hours later.