Tourist Injured After Collision With Taxi
On Friday [Aug.19] a 55-year-old female tourist was injured after she was struck by a taxi while walking on Front Street. She was taken to the hospital via ambulance with injuries not believed to be life threatening.”
A police spokesperson said, “Around 11:15pm on Friday, police and first responders attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on Front Street in the City of Hamilton near the junction with Fagans Alley involving a taxi and a pedestrian.”
“It appears that the taxi was traveling along Front Street and a group of pedestrians were crossing the road when a collision occurred with one of them.”
“The female victim, a 55 year old American visitor to the island, was injured and taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital via ambulance. Her injuries are not believed to be life threatening.”
“The taxi driver was not injured; however the taxi was damaged. Enquiries into this incident are underway. Any witnesses who have not already made themselves known or anyone with any information is encouraged to contact PC Delfi Burrows on 295-0011.”
That was the second accident involving a taxi that day, as a few hours prior a taxi was traveling along Harrington Sound Road when it collided with a wooden railing and a tree stump, injuring the 28-year-old female passenger.
A police spokesperson said, “Around 5:40pm on Friday, police and first responders attended a reported single vehicle road traffic collision resulting in injury on Harrington Sound Road in Hamilton parish near the junction with Quarry Road.”
“It appears that a taxi was traveling along Harrington Sound Road when it collided with a wooden railing and a tree stump. The taxi was damaged as a result.”
“The taxi driver, a 59 year old Hamilton parish woman, was not injured; however the taxi’s passenger, a 28 year old woman, was injured.”
“Both women were taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital via ambulance; the taxi driver as a precaution, while the passenger received treatment for her injuries which are not believed to be life threatening.”
“Enquiries into this incident are underway. Any witnesses or anyone with any information is encouraged to contact PC Anthony Thurab on 295-0011.”
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Well I do hope the tourist was ok.
I don’t know who was at fault and so I won’t speak on this particular accident but I do want to talk about Bermuda taxi’s in general.
I have found that many many taxis speed late at night. I’ve been in taxi’s coming from and going to town and going to the airport in the early hours and have been amazed at the speeds that some of the drivers are doing. I’ve been in taxi’s doing well in excess of 70mph on straight stretches of traffic free road. Now I understand that they want a quick turn around to get more fares and late at night there is little traffic on the road and almost no police to catch them, so they can get away with it. But this kind of driving is extremely dangerous. I’ve asked drivers on several occasions to slow down and they did when asked. But there seems to be a culture of taxis engaging in reckless driving on our roads in the early hours and serious accidents are bound to come out of this. The police and government need to stamp it out.
i agree with you james i have almost been hit a number of times from taxis speeding out of gates
I think you mean 70kmh(40mph). Do you have any idea how fast 70mph(112kmh) is? There is no way anyone, let alone a taxi, could sustain that speed on Bermuda’s roads for more than a few seconds at a time
” There is no way anyone, let alone a taxi, could sustain that speed on Bermuda’s roads for more than a few seconds at a time”
I’d like to disagree entirely with that statement. I’ve seen people going to work in excess of 120kmh!
How would you know that they were doing 120kmh unless you were in the car with them or had a radar gun? I’m saying it’s impossible to reach that speed, I am saying that it IS impossible to drive at that speed for any long period of time.
l hope the ladies going to be fine too.
The taxi drivers are another whole issue….the attitudes, the nastiness in alot of their tones….l mean there are alot of good and nice drivers out there….it just seems that they are part of the died or dying bermuda tourism, right?
I mean look at the lot of them and throw the bus drivers in there too……l mean they look like the crew from Micheal Jackson’s Thriller!
This island is dying partly because of this issue; no young guys wanna drive a taxi(well maybe now they do…recession and all)
Its all in need of a major overhall, Mayor of New York does it every decade…we should do it too!
I wonder if the taxi driver will be asked to take a test of some sort – and what would happen if he refused.
There was a young man hit on Pitts Bay road around 4pm on Friday, he was air lifted out to Lahey early Saturday morning.
I actually saw the taxi hit the woman on front street. Number one- the group was not crossing anywhere near a cross walk nor a traffic light crossing. I am not sure why the taxi driver still hit her but she was laying face down and I was convinced she was dead! But she then moved, and I went bout my business. The taxi driver looked pretty pissed off as he ran around cursing. Glad to know that she was ok.
When is the last time you have seen a taxi being pulled over for a traffic violation (speeding, wreckless driving etc.?) not saying it doesnt happen, but i honestly cannot recall the last time i saw a taxi being pulled over by the police. A lot of taxi drivers have the mentality that they own the road; pulling out into traffic without looking for whats comming, stopping suddenly in the middle of the road. I do have to mention, however, that the time it takes a taxi to come to you when you order one has greatly reduced. i remember a few years ago waiting over an hour every time i called for one. now its pretty fast, i would say an average of about 20 mins. but my last point is taxis at late night; your leaving the bar at 3am and there are almost no taxis. when you do finally hail one down, they say your too drunk to get in their taxi! too drunk?!? what do you expect at 3am after a friday night out? or they are not going your direction. i have waited over 2 hours trying to get a taxi after a night out. and they wonder why so many people drive drunk.
Just sayin….
I can somewhat agree with you, but for ages Taxi drivers/ owners have been the wealthier Bermudians who feel they do own more of the road then a regular car driver. Taxi drivers shouldn’t be able to stop where ever they are to pick up or drop off a passenger and thats probably why this women was hit.
I bet the Taxi jus stopped outside the venue on the roadside and allowed her to get out in the middle of the road. Being that shes from NYC she was probably a bit careless and stepped into the road.
Secondly, she already admit to having “a glass of wine” so its partly her fault from the beginning as her decision making was already altered.
I dont understand why during the day these people go so slow they might as well push the taxi and at night they speed like they need to be at the other end of the island in 5 minutes. Find a middle ground, maybe around 45kmh.
There are clearly many taxi drivers here who are lovely people and real gentlemen. There are also some real a-holes driving taxis, who act and speak as if they own both the road and the island attached to it. I personally witnessed one taxi hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk at Front St. and Parliament, next to Beach Restaurant. She was injured and knocked clear out of the crosswalk. He was one million percent at fault, but denied this, claimed she was not in the crosswalk – a clear lie, not a matter of perception or opinion – and then he was acquitted in court! No wonder they act like their shite doesn’t smell. The courts won’t discipline them. Must be cousins with what passes for judges here.