Driver Flees Scene After Striking Wall
Early yesterday morning [Dec 5] a car lost control and smashed into a wall on on Harbour Road and the occupants of the vehicle fled the scene on foot.
Around 4:45am Police responded to a reported single vehicle damage only road traffic collision on Harbour Road in Paget near the junction with Lovers Lane. Police state that it appears that a car was traveling along Harbour Road when the driver lost control and collided with a wall. The occupants of the vehicle apparently fled the scene on foot. The car received damage to multiple areas, the wall was also damaged, however it appears that none of the occupanets of the car were injured.
Approximately four hours before that Police responded to another accident on North Shore Road in Hamilton parish near the junction with Middle Road. A 24 year old Hamilton parish man lost control of the car he was driving and and collided with a tree. The driver was not injured; however the vehicle was extensively damaged.
Police inquiries into both incidents are underway.
Category: Accidents and fires, All, News
Studid is as stupid does.
typical Onion drivers
I just love the way these traffic reports are written. People are always ‘colliding’ with something. A wall, a utility pole, a hedge or something else that cannot move. It is written as if the stationary object was somehow partially responsible for the crash. I believe the better word would be ‘crash’ into whatever the stationary object is. is it just me, or does not coliding with something imply that the other object was MOVING also. I understand ‘coliding’ with another vehicle but not a wall.
Just sayin…
It’s the season for more frequent crashes….the walls on Harbour Road better beware…Sad Reality…Be safe my peeps!
The percentage of accidents in Bermuda compared to the amount of cars on the road must be one of the highest is the world. Is it because.
1. Bermudians as people just can’t drive
2. The driving test is not good enough
3. Too much alcohol
4. Using a cell phone or texting
Just think if Bermudians had to drive in places like Paris, or the German high speed highways.
All good points. I wonder how many Bermudians rent cars when they travel? How many students overseas have cars? How many who have homes overseas have cars? How many of all of those have had serious accidents? One would think that if they did it might make local news. Maybe not.
I have driven a 55′ long vehicle something like 70,000 miles across the US & Canada in the past 4 years. I see more acts of stupidity on Bermuda roads in less than a week than in all those miles in North America.
“You can’t fix stupid”
445am? Didn’t want to get taken off the road for a year for DUI so they ran away. Simples
Leave your car? The police should keep it and sell it to pay for the damage to the walls. I’m sure the insurance company will not pay for the car since the driver left it. Dumb ass. Also, I drive and have owned more cars in the U.S. then I have in Bermuda (where I have driven a Taxi and a truck all day) and I see more stupid things done on Bermuda’s roads than in the U.S. However, our driving test is harder (both written and on road) than the U.S.’s.
Memo to all non-drivers:
Please stay off of harbour road.