10-Yr-Old Boy Injured In Accident
Yesterday [Feb.15] a 10-year-old boy was injured after being involved in an accident in Paget.
A police spokesperson said, “Around 5:30pm on Tuesday February 14th, police and first responders attended a reported collision on South Road in Paget. It appears that a motorcycle and a pedal cycle were travelling along South Road when they collided near the junction with Cobbs Hill Road.”
“The motorcycle rider, a 25 year old Warwick man and the pedal cycle rider, a 10 year old Paget boy were both conveyed to KEMH via ambulance for treatment of relatively minor injuries. Both were treated and later released. Inquiries into this incident are underway.”
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Drivers & riders need to slow down in Bermuda. The island is only 20.6 square miles so 35k is a sufficient speed limit. If some finds themselves having to speed to their destination here they need to get on their way earlier. To have a motor vehicle in Bermuda by law is a privilege to be able to move safely as a pedestrian or pedal cyclist here by law is a right.
So then why do drivers and riders have to pay to insure and license their vehicle but at the same time bicycle riders do not pay licensing nor are they insured but take up the entire road at times? This is abuse of their privilege and thus should have to pay a licensing fee and be insured in order to use the roads with a bicycle.
OMG be real!!!! Are you kidding – so then this will apply to walkers, runners etc. etc.
Another one is instead of slowing down to ensure clear passage to a walker/runner/cyclist they will overtake and push the other traffic over. What happened road safety??
As Tommy says people need to slow down.
The reason drivers & riders have to pay to insure and license their vehicle is because one must pay for privileges. Especially because giving someone the privilege of owning something that could be potentially dangerous to others & their property insurance is a must.
As I typed before it is every pedestrian & bicyclist’s right NOT privilege to travel freely on Bermuda’s roads. There are no J walking laws here so any pedestrian or bicyclist’s can ride or walk directly in the middle of the lane. Drivers & riders of motor vehicles DO NOT have the right to run them over so they’ll just have to wait for them to turn of or they can safely overtake them in allowed areas. This law was instated years ago to preserve the quaintness of Bermuda. Tourist do not like almost getting run over when walking or waiting for the bus.