Tragedy struck on Bermuda's roads yet again at the weekend when a teenage girl became the third road traffic fatality of 2005.

Krystle (Maya) Babon, 15, was killed on Saturday night after the bike on which she was riding as a passenger collided with a wall on Harbour Road.

Witnesses said the rider of the bike fled the scene uninjured. Police later reported that the 17-year old Sandys man was found on Keith Hall Lane and arrested on suspicion of impaired driving.

One witness to the accident told yesterday that she was travelling east along Harbour Road between the Belmont wharf and Keith Hall Road at about 10.15 p.m. on Saturday when she noticed a van parked along the side of the road.

The 23-year driver stopped her car and waited to allow another car, travelling west, to pass the parked van. After the car passed, she had begun pulling out from behind the van to overtake it when the bike, also travelling east, appeared to come from behind her and started to overtake her.

The bike hit her mirror and the front of her car, she said ? then the rider appeared to lose control, smashing into the wall on the other side of the road.

"I was stunned," she said. "The bike didn't have a light. It just came speeding up.

"I saw a figure run off. The passenger just lay on the ground not moving. I didn't go up to her, I didn't want to see. I just called 911."

Unresponsive when Police arrived, Maya was rushed to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. She was pronounced dead by an on-call physician at 12.15 yesterday morning.

A journalist at the scene shortly after the smash saw the crumpled bike lying on the tarmac. Debris from the vehicle, along with a single shoe, also lay scattered along the road.

Yesterday, as friends and relatives gathered at Maya's Sandys home, the grief-stricken family of the girl declined to speak with .

Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone with any information to contact P.c. Francilla Henry on 299-4302 or 295-0011.

Police are especially interested in speaking with the male rider of an orange Yamaha V80 or V50 motorcycle that was travelling east with the cycle involved in the collision.