The Bermuda Police Service continues to advise the motoring public to slow down and to use care, caution and courtesy on the island’s roads. Additionally, we urge those traveling in cars to use their seatbelts at all times and those traveling on motorcycles to fasten their helmets and avoid making a third lane.
During the week of Monday, March 9th – Monday, March 16th 2009 there were:
The Bermuda Police Service continues to advise the motoring public to slow down and to use care, caution and courtesy on the island’s roads. Additionally, we urge those traveling in cars to use their seatbelts at all times and those traveling on motorcycles to fasten their helmets and avoid making a third lane.
During the week of Monday, March 9th – Monday, March 16th 2009 there were:
* Reported Injury Collisions = 14
* Reported Damage Only Collisions = 37
* Arrests on Suspicion of Impaired Driving = 7
* Vehicles Reported Taken Without Their Owners’ Consent = 17
* Number of vehicles reported stolen by parish: St. George’s = 1, Hamilton parish = 2, Devonshire = 1, Pembroke = 7, Paget = 1, Warwick = 2, Southampton = 2 and Sandy’s parish = 1.
Injury RTC/Impaired Driving - Around 2:15am on Monday, Police attended a reported single vehicle road traffic collision resulting in injury on The Lane in Paget near the junction with Pomander Road. It appears that a car was traveling east on The Lane when the driver lost control and collided with a wall. Apparently the driver, a 23 year old Pembroke woman and the vehicle’s three passengers all received relatively minor injuries; they were taken to KEMH via ambulance for treatment. The driver was subsequently arrested on suspicion of impaired driving. The car received extensive front end damage. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
Around 2:15am on Monday, Police attended a reported single vehicle road traffic collision resulting in injury on The Lane in Paget near the junction with Pomander Road. It appears that a car was traveling east on The Lane when the driver lost control and collided with a wall. Apparently the driver, a 23 year old Pembroke woman and the vehicle’s three passengers all received relatively minor injuries; they were taken to KEMH via ambulance for treatment. The driver was subsequently arrested on suspicion of impaired driving. The car received extensive front end damage. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
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Burglary - Around 5:10pm on Friday, Police received a report of a burglary at a Turtle Place, Southampton residence. The complainant stated that sometime between 11am and 4:30pm that day, an unknown culprit gained entry into his home while it was unoccupied. The culprit stole a 32” Samsung flat screen TV and a Dell laptop computer. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
Around 5:10pm on Friday, Police received a report of a burglary at a Turtle Place, Southampton residence. The complainant stated that sometime between 11am and 4:30pm that day, an unknown culprit gained entry into his home while it was unoccupied. The culprit stole a 32” Samsung flat screen TV and a Dell laptop computer. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
An investigation is ongoing into an attempted sexual assault which occurred on Pitts Bay Road in Pembroke around 4am on Saturday, February 28th 2009. A 20 year old Pembroke man was arrested in connection with the incident shortly afterwards. He was subsequently released on Police bail. Police are now making a public appeal for anyone who may have seen anything in the Pitts Bay Road area near Smatt’s Cycles around 4am Saturday February 28th or anyone with any information about this incident to contact the Hamilton Criminal Investigation Unit on 295-0011.
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