A Jamaican landscaper who had moved to Bermuda just one month ago has become the Island?s third road fatality in less than two weeks.

The death of the 32-year-old, Pembroke man is the seventh road traffic fatality for 2005 and equals the number of deaths for the whole of 2004. Another fatal road collision in 2005 will reverse the decline in road deaths Bermuda had seen since 2003, when there were ten road deaths.

By presstime last night, Police had not released the man?s name as they were still trying to contact his family in Jamaica. He was riding north on Glebe Road, near the Bishop Spencer School building when he lost control. The passenger has only cuts and bruises.

Eyewitnesses are asked to contact P.c. Wiltshire at 299-4538 at Hamilton Police Station. Fire Service Lt. Dana Lovell said: ?When we got there, he definitely needed our help. We found it necessary to use a reciprocating saw in order to aid in the dis-entanglement of the rider from the cycle.?

?His face was embedded in the fender,? witness Donna Tucker said. ?His head was trapped between the fender and the wheel. They had to cut his body out. He was face down the whole time and his arms were back. That boy did not move at all.?

The bleeding was so severe, his pulse became weaker and weaker as he lay on the street.

Mrs. Tucker said was watching TV inside with her family, when she heard a sickening thud outside her Glebe Road, Pembroke home at around 11.45 a.m. yesterday. ?I heard a loud thump and came running out to see what was going on,? Mrs. Tucker said. ?The first thing I saw was a helmet rolling into the yard.?

She said the rider of the bike was ?all tangled up on the bike? which was on top of him near the pavement outside her driveway.

But the pillion passenger, a 35-year-old Devonshire man, was on his feet and was pacing around the scene of the accident.

She said one of the rider?s legs was trapped underneath the cycle. His head was stuck in the bike until the fire department was able to cut him out, she said.

?He did not have his helmet on properly,? she said. ?If it was on properly, his head never would have fit in there.?

She was able to talk to the passenger, however, the rider was limp and was not saying anything, she said. ?The guy identified himself as being (the victim?s) uncle,? she said. Mrs. Tucker said the noise of the crash was so great that she thought a car had crashed through a wall.

?I had bikes hit before, but it sounded so loud,? she said. ?This is a frequent accident spot.?

Residents had even contacted Works & Engineering staff advised them to place a non-slip surface on the corner with the Bishop Spencer Building.

Police Media Spokesman Dwayne Caines said yesterday Police responded to a report of a single vehicle collision that took place a few minutes before 12 p.m. yesterday morning.

?It appears that a cycle was travelling north on the Glebe Road in the proximity of the Bishop Spencer building when the rider, a 32-year-old Pembroke man and a pillion passenger, a 35-year-old Devonshire man lost control of the cycle resulting in the cycle crashing,? Mr. Caines said. ?The 32-year-old man was rushed to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.?