A 31-year-old motorcyclist suffered facial and hand injuries after a collision between his bike and a car on South Road in Devonshire.

Police said the two vehicles were travelling in opposite directions when the accident happened just before 3 a.m. on New Year's Day near Brighton Hill Road.

The bike rider, from Smith's, was taken to hospital; the 73-year-old male car driver, from Southampton, was uninjured.

Meanwhile, two teenage motorcyclists were arrested on suspicion of drink driving in separate incidents in the early hours of New Year's Day. The first youth, aged 16 and from Smith's, was arrested at about 2.30 a.m. after failing an alco-analyser test.

Half an hour later, another 16-year-old was stopped on Crow Lane in Pembroke after Police saw him driving his scooter in an erratic manner. He was also arrested after failing the alco-analyser test.

Police said four people were arrested in total on suspicion of impaired driving from 7 a.m. on Wednesday to 7 a.m. yesterday.

During the same 48-hour period, there were five burglaries, two road crashes causing injury, nine road crashes involving vehicle damage only and seven vehicles taken without consent.

A Police spokesman said: "The Bermuda Police Service would like to thank the public for their co-operation over the holiday period which resulted in no major incidents being reported to Police."