A serious single vehicle road traffic accident last Friday evening put a visitor to the Island in hospital with head and internal injuries.

At 7.35 p.m. Police attended the scene of the accident on North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish near Shelly Bay.

The American visitor, from Tennessee, was driving a rental cycle east on North Shore Road when he lost control and struck the sidewalk.

He is currently in stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit at the King Edward IIV Memorial hospital.

Police are appealing for any witnesses to this incident or anyone with any information to contact P.c. Mallory on 295-0011.