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‘Guardian’ Runs Aground While Rescuing Disabled Vessel

Mon, 2008-04-21

Around 8:30pm on Monday, the Marine Police Unit received a call from Bermuda Radio requesting assistance for ‘Sea Spirit’, a disabled 40 ft. motor yacht apparently bound for Bermuda, which was 30 miles west of the island. ‘Sea Spirit’ had been drifting for 12 days after its engines were disabled when rope/fishing netting became entangled in the vessel’s propeller. Additionally, the crew’s attempts to sail to Bermuda proved unsuccessful.

TWOC

Sun, 2008-04-20

Around 8:45 this morning, Police received a report of a vehicle taken without its owners consent. The car, a blue Peugeot 307 station wagon license plate #39212, has a bike rack on the back and was removed from a Windwood Drive, Pembroke residence sometime overnight. Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of this vehicle is encouraged to contact Police on 295-0011.

Burglary

RTC

Sat, 2008-04-19

Around 11:35pm on Saturday, Police attended a single vehicle road traffic collision on Spanish Point Road in Pembroke near the junction with St. Johns Hill. It appears that a car was traveling west on Spanish Point Road when the driver lost control and collided with a utility pole. The driver of the car then left the scene. The car received damage to multiple areas.

Injury RTC

Wed, 2008-04-16

Around 4 this morning, Police attended a reported single vehicle road traffic collision resulting in injury at the junction of North Shore Road and Doctors Lane in Hamilton parish. It appears that the car was traveling west on North Shore Road when the driver, a 27 year old Hamilton parish man, lost control attempting to negotiate a sharp left hand bend. As a result the car struck the sidewalk and overturned.

Injury RTC

Tue, 2008-04-15

At 10:20pm on Tuesday, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on Crow Lane in Pembroke outside ‘Great Things involving a taxi and a motorcycle. It appears that the taxi was traveling east on Crow Lane with the motorcycle traveling in the same direction behind it when the taxi attempted a u-turn and the vehicles collided.

Press Conference Regarding Road Safety Initiatives

Mon, 2008-04-14

 

The Bermuda Police Service in conjunction with the Bermuda Road Safety Council and the Junior Minister for Transport will hold a joint press conference on Thursday, April 17th at 12:30pm in the Bermuda Police Association Boardroom at Police Headquarters, Prospect Devonshire to announce the resolutions which came out of their emergency meeting at 12 noon today. All media are encouraged to attend.

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