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‘Crisis’ goes on with spate of road crashes

A crew from LowCo work on extracting a car from the embankment off of South Road. (Photo by Mark Tatem)

The catalogue of crashes on Bermuda’s roads continued over the weekend with four accidents in less than a day.

In the early hours of Saturday morning a car overturned in Paget as it tried to avoid colliding with a motorcycle,

Within two hours another vehicle had veered off the road and over an embankment on Middle Road in Southampton.

Meanwhile, a different embankment on South Road in Southampton was the scene of two accidents in 16 hours as two vehicles — including a Police vehicle — came off the road and ended down an embankment near Horseshoe Bay.

The back-to-back accidents in the same location prompted staff from the Works & Engineering Department to perform a series of skid-and-resistance tests near the embankment on Saturday morning.

Although no one was harmed in the latest series of accidents, Anthony Santucci, executive director of CADA, called for drivers to take stock and exercise caution.

“CADA is concerned about the continuing number of road collisions and encourages all Bermuda residents to drive carefully,” he said.

“The ‘crisis’, as it has been called by the Premier, has clearly not abated and will not abate until we address the issues behind it.”

Last night Mr Santucci renewed his call for the establishment of an Alcohol Bureau of Control, non-selective sobriety checkpoints, social hosting laws and mandatory blood-alcohol testing for all those involved in road traffic accidents resulting in injury.

Police were called out to three road traffic accidents in the early hours of Saturday morning. At 2.25am a driver ploughed into a wall on South Road in Paget, near the junction with St Paul’s Lane, and overturned as he tried to avoid colliding with an oncoming motorcyclist.

The 28-year-old St George’s man was not injured, but both the car and wall were extensively damaged.

Less than two hours later a teenage driver lost control of his vehicle on Middle Road in Southampton and careered down an embankment near the junction with Church Road.

The 19-year-old and his female passenger were found by police in a nearby property shortly after the accident. The vehicle was severely damaged and was later towed away from the scene.

Then at 4.30am the same night a man lost control of his car on South Road, near the Gulf Stream restaurant in Southampton, and veered off the road and down an embankment that had claimed a Police land cruiser on Friday afternoon.

The driver, who was the only person in the vehicle, was unhurt and remained at the scene for Police assistance.

Anyone with any information about the accident in Paget should contact Constable Donna DeSilva on 295-0011.

A crew from LowCo work on extracting a car from the embankment off of South Road. (Photo by Mark Tatem)