Man Arrested For DUI After 5-Car Collision
A 26-year-old Southampton man was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after the car he was driving collided with four other cars in the Somerset Bridge area on Friday evening.
A police spokesperson said, “Around 11pm on Friday, February 15th police officers attended a reported damage only collision on Middle Road in Sandys parish near Somerset Bridge.
“It appears that a car was being driven along Middle Road when it collided with four other cars in the area of the temporary traffic lights.
“The driver, a 26 year old Southampton man, was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving. There were no reported injuries; however all five vehicles were damaged, two apparently extensively.
“Inquiries into this collision are ongoing and a court appearance for the car driver is anticipated in due course.”
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Drunk or sober Bermudians can’t drive. Unbelievable for a place where the speeds are so slow, there is no mountain driving, there is no ice or snow to drive in!!!
Yeah, beer made that red light look green…. Shame there’re was traffic coming the other way…..
You are a complete and utter Idiot…
Get a life or just drift away Loser…!!
Yes, that explains why so many tourists come here and get in accidents. Your logic is excellent.
Very sad
Another idiot!!! Does anybody ever wonder why motor vehicle insurance continues to rise?? It is because of fools like this!! Thank god nobody was killed!
Don’t forget about medical insurance… We all have to pay with the fools!!
Soooooo, you are absolutely correct!!! I did forget health Insurance!! Thanks
Almost every Monday morning as I drive from the East along the North Shore into Hamilton, I come along at least one spot where someone has driven their car into a wall or fence and destroyed it. In most cases it was as a result of DUI or speeding. Im amazed at how often the walls and fences are not fixed and nobody is held accountable. Make the speeders and DUI idiots pay to have things rebuilt that they ddestroyed instead of it coming out of the public purse or sitting there destroyed.
Take a look around you as you drive to work tomorrow and you will likely see dozens of examples (from over the years)of what I am talking about.
OBA and PLP ministers can you work together to change and enforce legislation that will make these guys pay – instead of the public.
Smashing through a wall is a “right of passage” in Bda.
It does not pay to run traffic lights under the influence. Smh.. I wish there was a pic of the accident as I cannot figure out how five cars were struck.
It does not pay to run the traffic lights at all.
fools had me waiting on the bus for well or an hour…..special thanks to Mr. Scott and Mr.Furbert…the drivers
It’s ridiculous. Bloody useless stupid drunk drivers. Peeeses me off.
Ok, lets see if I have this right, a car runs the light at road construction & crashes into a car coming the other way. That is a 2 vehicle crash. So how are the other 3 involved? Let me guess. The third car was tailgating & ran into the first in line on the green. The fourth was tailgating the third & ran into the third. The fifth was tailgating the fourth & ran into the back of him.
Marvelous! One drunk fool runs a light & three other fools sandwich the car which has done nothing wrong because they are following way too close.
Is that about it?
Thanks for increasing my insurance premiums. Idiots! Over 40 years no crashes here & I drive the same roads.
how about he ran the light, ricocheted off one, hit another and sideswiped two or pushed one into another. He must have been going pretty fast to think he could make it before the oncoming traffic. don’t try to shift the blame to the oncoming traffic. He was allegedly drunk, and if you knew more details would know ___ ___ ___ ___…plain and simple
I stand corrected in this crash, though the speculation is not too far off given the set up. My appologies to those concerned having now spoken to one of the drivers struck.
One driver at that speed doing all of that damage. Amazing! Remove him from the road for a long long time.
ONLY in Bermuda…dumb ass!
should rip his license up for ever.
glad no body got hurt bad. it wont amaze me if we had a lot more 5 car pile up. have you notice that most drivers in Bermuda tailgate. take look tomorrow and see for your self
Tailgating is a major issue, but it’s not one that is monitored or policed. I personally have less issue with someone “speeding” depending on location and situation than those who tailgate or drive in a reckless manner.
Carlsberg doesn’t do traffic lights.
But, if it did………
All the Drunks seem have taken the Bar to the roads.
Since the Christmas holidays I know quite a few who have so far have been before the Courts for just plain old driving under the influence
or causing road accidents under the influence of acholic beverages .
AT triangle drifter
before you run wild and wrong
speeding out of control the fool hit a law-bidding citzen at the first stop light then he flew over the bridge hit another law-bidding citzen’s car who had the green light to proceed then after crashing into them hit the next law-bidding citzen then another after that finally crashing to a stop himself SO ease up with your lack of facts before attacking…
See post above. Appology issued. Would you be big enough to do same?
I can’t even wrap my head around all that foolish action!!!
First offense for DUI = license suspended for 5 years
Second offense for DUI – license revoked for life
No exceptions no more chances to kill someone else or cause damage to others or property.
Time to get serious about our issues!
Love that idea, hope the legislators are reading this!!!
when will people learn. some people just don’t learn.the law needs to changed, its gotten worse. FED UP.
@ Triangle Drifter…
Please get a life and drift away….
You trawl these stories and show your narrow sighted and biased views.
Your perception of this accident and other incidents that happen on this little island are so skewed.
I only wish your fingers would fall off so you would stop commenting of S__t you have no idea about.
Drift … away….. PLEASE.
Will do soon, but not because of your wishes. In the meantime try doing what I do when I see certain, usually very wordy, posters. Ignore the postings.
What is a necromonger? Sounds….sick, frankly. Just asking.
it would be nice if our asleep at the wheel police service actually caught these drunk drivers every now and then BEFORE they end up in a bent vehicle, most of the DUI’s are arrested “at the scene” how about some sobriety check points to help stop the drunk drivers getting to the scene!
Car insurance question – how much higher does their insurance go up if the car is their’s…. a person driving someone else’s car with the driver as passenger – does the owner’s insurance go up as well? The drivers should be titled as “Insurance Risk” and not allowed to have coverage – pay for all de damages out of your own pockets. Perhaps that would curtail some of this nonsense.
People make me laugh..this matter hasn’t even gone before the court yet and everyone is jumping to conclusions..
typical Bermudians, wait till you see what really happened !!!