Visitor recorded as island’s 13th road fatality of 2026
A visitor who was involved in a two-vehicle crash in Southampton yesterday has died, making her the island’s thirteenth road fatality this year, police said this afternoon.
The Bermuda Police Service said that the 63-year-old American woman was riding a rental scooter west along Middle Road in Southampton near the junction with Industrial Park Road when she collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction.
The woman was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital via ambulance where she was later pronounced dead by an on call doctor.
A BPS family liaison officer is assisting her next of kin, while an investigation into the incident continues.
Witnesses to the collision were urged to call Constable Jason Ming of the roads policing unit on 717-0862 or to e-mail jming@bps.bm, as soon as possible.
• Adam Tavares, 51, was involved in a crash on January 22 at the junction of Loyal Hill and North Shore Road in Devonshire
• Jahzavier Wilson, 19, collided with a water truck on Verdmont Road near the junction with St Mark’s Road in Smith’s on February 2
• Siena Frankson, 16, a pillion passenger, was thrown from a motorcycle after the rider lost control on Kindley Field Road, St George’s, near Stonecrusher Corner on February 14
• Wilton Woolridge Jr, 52, was involved in a crash at the roundabout near the junction of North Shore Road, Palmetto Road and Barkers Hill on January 31. He succumbed to his injuries on February 18
• An unnamed rider was involved in a collision with a taxi on April 25 on Somerset Road near its junction with West Side Road in Sandys
• Leroy Smith, 43, was involved in a crash on April 30
• An unnamed motorcyclist, 73, collided with a bus on Palmetto Road on May 18
• Laquan Thomas, 30, died after a collision between a livery cycle and motorcycle along Malabar Road, on May 19
• Dylan Taylor, 23, died after colliding with a rental car along South Road, Smith’s, on June 1
• Michael DeSilva, 45, died after colliding with a private car on Middle Road, Sandys, on July 26
• An unnamed motorcyclist was involved in a crash near the junction of Church Road and South Road in Southampton on July 25. He succumbed to his injuries a week later on August 1
• An unnamed motorcyclist was involved in a crash with a flatbed truck at junction of Chapel Road and Harbour Road in Paget on August 8
• An unnamed livery cycle rider, 63, died after colliding with a car on Middle Road, Southampton on August 11
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