41-Yr-Old Man Dies Following Accident
The Police have confirmed the death of 41-year-old Alexander Monk following a road traffic accident on Thursday morning [Nov.24].
A police spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Police Service can now confirm the death of 41 year old Alexander Monk of Hamilton parish. Around 7:15am on Thursday November 24th, Mr. Monk was seriously injured when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a bus on Middle Road in Southampton in the vicinity of Five Star Island.
“Mr. Monk sustained head injuries and was transported via ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where he was subsequently pronounced dead by an on call physician.
“The Bermuda Police Service extends condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Monk. Inquiries are ongoing. Police are continuing to appeal for any witnesses, in particular the rider of a second motorcycle believed to be in the area around the time of the collision, to contact PC Bianca Glasford at the Roads Policing Unit on 295-0011.
“The death of Alexander Monk marks the eighth road fatality for 2011.”
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This crap starting to sound really fishy, Hope no one is overtaking on the inside and pushing these guys into on coming traffic. Its a lot of bikes coming inside these days……… Smell a rat
My most sincere condolences to Mr. Monks Family and Kin in your time of bereavement.
Rest in Peace. My condolences to the family.
My condolences to the family of Mr. Monks.
I think Tee has hit on a point about the “inside passing”.
More and more people are abusing the slack enforcement of a lot driving laws. And like Tee mentioned, some riders are over taking on the inside of other bikes and even cars if they think there is enough room to get past. It is bad enough these “accidents waiting to happen” are endangering themselves, but they should be severly punished when others safety is put at risk because of their actions. Look at how many people you see still using phones while driving, unsafe passing, speeding, and following to close. The island is somewhat out of control when talkng about driver safety. At this point in history this will probably only get worse without major changes to the publics attitude towards their general lack of safety while driving. In a lot of societies driver education is part of a students educational program. Why not in Bermuda? If it is and I have missed this, someone should consider a better program. Till then I say we add more cops to traffic monitoring…Yes it will make a lot of people mad, but only the ones that don’t follow the laws set for driving. If you think about it, the increased revenue of tickets and fines could help finance the added cost of increased monitoring of the roads in Bermuda. Something has to be done about this driving issue, it has become very dangerous on the roads.
Safety first I was left in total shock the other day by a bike rider who decide to forego the Southshore round a bout at Trimingham Hill all because he could not make it down the inside of my car. Lucky is all he was because had someone been coming down the hill he and his passenger would have had a serious accident and they may have ended up dead. Just a word to the rider is your life and the life of your passenger worth so little.
I just wanna say i send My condolences to the family of Mr.Monk, I met Mr. Monk on new years of 2011 at a house party @ a friends house, (Great Guy He Was) R.I.P Bra
I Also drive the bus and you see it all in one day, people cutting corners and overtaking on corners slow down you guys and to my bus operaters that i work with that goes for you as well! SLOW DOWN……….
thank you, cause you bus driver speed!!