A woman who crashed a car and abandoned it was more than twice the legal drink-driving limit, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
The court heard that police officers found the car crashed into a utility pole on South Road in Southampton and contacte...
A man caught riding a motorbike with his helmet on backwards admitted being more than three times over the legal limit yesterday.
Renato Andrade, 29, pleaded guilty to drink-driving in Magistrates’ Court.
The court heard that police officers stopped ...
Yearly road crash figures appear to have decreased as a result of breath-test checkpoints, national security minister Wayne Caines said on Friday in the House of Assembly.
The minister said the island had recorded 1,117 collisions so far this year, c...
A teenage motorcyclist suffered serious cuts to his neck after riding into string from a kite.
The 16-year-old victim also suffered cuts and bruises to his right hand, right leg and right foot when he crashed his bike in Pembroke on Thursday, shortly...
Roadside breath-test checkpoints will be set up in seven parishes next weekend.
Police will be in place in Hamilton Parish, Smith’s, Devonshire, Pembroke, Paget, Warwick and Southampton from December 6 to December 8.
A 19-year-old man suffered fractures and cuts to his face after his bike and a water truck were in collision yesterday.
A police spokesman said: “His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.”
The spokesman added that the teenager was conscio...
A man paralysed from the waist down after an accident caused by his careless driving plans to become a road safety motivational speaker.
Jason Minors, 36, wants to talk to schoolchildren about the importance of safe driving and help others through tr...
Breath-test checkpoints have helped slash the grim toll of death on the roads, the transport minister said yesterday.
Zane DeSilva added that checkpoints, combined with road safety campaigns, had made major contributions to a 50 per cent fall in road...
Two men were thrown over a wall on to the shoreline after their bike hit a wall.
Police said that a 17-year-old from St George’s was thought to be riding with a Sandys man, 26, as his pillion passenger.
The pair were travelling west along Somerset Ro...
A teenage motorcyclist suffered a fractured jaw after his bike was in collision with a car, police said yesterday.
A police spokesman said the rider was taken by ambulance to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment.
He added: “At last che...
Police arrested four men on Friday after a high-speed chase from Paget to Southampton.
A police spokesman said the driver was later charged with a series of offences and two of the passengers were held for warrants.
The fourth was released without ch...
A 57-year-old man was banned from the roads for five years yesterday after he admitted drink-driving.
Jeffrey Hill, from Warwick, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to impaired driving.
Hill was spotted by a member of the public driving erraticall...
