Driver Injured In Harbour Road Collision
Shortly before 6.00pm today [Oct 1] emergency service personnel responded to a two vehicle collision on Harbour Road near the junction with Valley Road.
It appears the two vehicles were travelling on Harbour Road when the collision occurred with both vehicles ending up in the east bound lane. Traffic was restricted to one lane flow as emergency services tended the scene.
Fire Service personnel tended to the injured female driver of the car until an ambulance arrived and transported the female to King Edward Memorial Hospital for treatment. The extent of the driver’s injuries are unknown and no one else was injured in the collision. We will update with details as they become available.
Category: Accidents and fires, All
I don’t know the specifics of this accident so I will not speculate on what actually happened but it serves as a timely reminder for all that the eastern end of Harbour Road has been size restricted for 20 years now.
W & E recently erected three signs with an unknown (to most) message stating so but it does not go far enough. Not by a long shot.
Originally that section was off limits to all ‘H’ registration vehicles. But that was based on 20 year old size classes. Now we have cars that are what the size of trucks were 20 years ago. We have taxis the size of Euro camper vans. We have trucks that are ‘L’, ‘IN’ and ‘H’ category all of the same exterior size , and they all drive on that section like they’re on some 6 lane superhighway in the US.
People have to be seriously brain dead if they think that taking anything larger than a class ‘F’ car on that stretch is appropriate, much less SUV’s , oversized taxis or ANY trucks .
This would be a very easy problem to fix … Police , where are you ? ?
It’s true – I see those big SUVs on Harbour Road. They simply cannot fit in their lane.
An SUV can be driven safely along there, in its own lane.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been travelling down Harbour Road and have been overtaken, on the bit where it’s illegal to overtake, by motorbikes too impatient to stay in the line of traffic.
Motorbikes. Not SUV’s, trucks or vans.
You need to spend more time on that stretch. I’ve seen cars pass on that very stretch you’re referring to also. This is about ovresized vehicles that should not be on that section, not bikes that aren’t restricted.
As to your first sentence , I see the same people in oversized cars and trucks day after day having to stop , holding up traffic as they try to extricate themselves from the situation they created for themselves on the narrow corner by the ferry stop. Brain dead . No other excuse.
Can those vehicles stay in their lane …? Who knows ? None do it anyway.
I don’t “need to spend more time on that stretch”. I’ve driven it, safely, thousands of times. Despite the idiots on bikes who overtake and ride on the wrong side of the road. Or create ‘middle lanes’. Or who take bends so fast they lose control and end up on the other side.
And the people who drive slowly at the narrow bend… they’re ‘brain dead’ are they? For driving slowly so as to avoid an accident? You’d rather everyone drive around like an amateur racing driver?
Please , get over your rage towards bikers . The cars are just as bad or even worse and everyone knows it but they love to deflect and blame the 2 wheeled vehicles.
Again , this is not about bikes on that stretch , it’s about vehicles that common sense alone should dictate shouldn’t even be there.
And I’m not talking about people slowing down on that corner by the ferry stop , which by the way they ought to do anyway. I’m talking about oncoming oversized vehicles that shouldn’t even be there (common sense) in each other’s lane having to stop suddenly to avoid collision and then correct the situation at everyone else’s inconvenience.
Leave the bikes out of it , this is not about that !
In your first post you started with the admission: “I don’t know the specifics of this accident so I will not speculate on what actually happened but…”
And then, after saying you wouldn’t speculate on what happened, you went on to blame SUV’s, calling the drivers brain dead, etc…
If vehicles that can’t keep to their own side should be prohibited from that stretch of Harbour Road, bikes should be first on the list, as they’re the ones most frequently on the wrong side.
”But ” … it was a timely reminder that there’s been a size restriction on the eastern end of Harbour Rd for 20+ years. Something that many people seem unaware of even if they don’t have the common sense to realise that their vehicle is too damn big for that section of road . Got it ? Or do you still want to villify bike riders (who aren’t all bad) in your deflection of my original post ?
Desiring to have to last word still doesn’t make you right no matter how little it relates to the original point.
Got it yet ?
‘Yes , dear ‘ Always the ‘last word’
The abandonment of road policing is costing all of us dearly. There’s the human cost of the carnage on the roads … and there’s the very high cost of insuring vehicles here. There’s a direct link between those costs and the fact that the police have turned from “traffic enforcement” to “directing traffic after the wrecks”.
Absolutely spot on. There really appears to be no attempt these days at any sort of law enforcement on Bermuda’s roads. No matter what time of day or night cars and bikes are speeding, ducking and weaving as if on a suicide mission, and no cops in sight. Does anyone remember the long ago days when they used to have radar guns and regular speed traps set up? Whatever happened to those? Why has the BPS abandoned the streets?
Once again you narrow minded people want to jump on SUV owners and drivers. Sure my car is big and sure i use extra caution when driving on Bermuda’s roads. But to solely lay blame because of the size of a vehicle is assinide to say the least.
Let look at driving habits of the majority of people using our roads.
If you look around most people today, drive with their waindows up, A/C on, radio playing etc.. etc.. etc..
This in itself is a major cause for most accidents primarily as most drivers are unaware of the surronding vehicles.
How many times have you seen an emergency vehicle approach and you have to slam brakes because another driver just doesnt see it until its too late.
Have you EVER heard of the 8 second rule. Well i was taught that when i learned to drive over 25 yrs ago and i still use it to this day when i drive my SUV.
Approximately every 8 seconds take a look through ALL 3 of your mirrors so you have an idea of ALL the traffic around you.
oh and dont get me started on left hand drive trucks, trucks with bucket lifts and the flatbed trucks used by most Barritts, Burrows n Lightbourne amd the likes for deliveries.
These vehicles are SOOOOOO wide that half the time the drivers inch over the centre line just to drive along the roads.
Was either of these cars an SUV?
No, I didn’t think so.
No but one of them appears to be a large pickup truck (about the size of an SUV).
It has been reported that one of the drivers was arrested for suspected impaired driving. That’s the culprit here. So much for the knee-jerk ‘it’s the fault of SUV’s'….
Somebody is on the wrong side of the road… nothing to do with car sizes, SUV’s, Trucks or anything else…. People are losing it on this road during the ride home evenings… too often!!