Around 4:25 this morning, Police attended a reported serious single vehicle road traffic collision at the junction of North Shore Road and Palmetto Road in Devonshire (Barkers Hill round-a-bout). Some details about the collision remain unclear; however, it appears that two men were on a motorcycle traveling east on Palmetto Road when the rider lost control and collided with the western ‘island’ of the round-a-bout. Both men were thrown from the cycle as a result.
Around 8:05pm on Thursday, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on North Shore Road in Smiths parish near the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo involving two buses and a motorcycle. It appears that the motorcycle was traveling west on North Shore Road behind one bus and the other bus was traveling in the opposite direction.
At 4pm on Wednesday, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on North Shore Road in Devonshire, near the junction with Cable Hill involving a car and a motorcycle. It appears that the car was traveling east on North Shore Road and the motorcycle was traveling in the same direction behind the car when the car came to a stop due to traffic and the vehicles collided.
Around 8:10pm on Tuesday, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on North Shore Road in Devonshire near the junction with Cable Hill, involving a motorcycle and a car. It appears that the car was traveling east on North Shore Road and the motorcycle was traveling in the opposite direction when the car attempted to make a right hand turn and the vehicles collided.
Around 3:40 this morning, Police received a report of a disturbance at a Friswells Road, Pembroke residence. It appears that around 3:20am four men attended the residence, with two of them brandishing weapons (blunt articles and a bladed article). One of the suspects then attacked one of the occupants with the bladed article.
The Bermuda Police Service can now confirm the death of 39 year old Martha Hoopes of Illinois, USA. Mrs. Hoopes was traveling east on Middle Road in Southampton near the junction with Lighthouse Hill (entrance of Fairmont Southampton) with her 9 year old daughter as a pillion passenger when a collision took place between her livery cycle and a van traveling in a westerly direction. This resulted in her daughter receiving injuries and Mrs. Hoopes being rendered unconscious at the scene.
Two men at 8:20pm on Thursday, March 20th attended the Hamilton Police Station and reported that they were robbed at gun point on Parsons Lane in Devonshire, near Bermuda Water Works Limited. The complainants stated that they were repairing a cycle on the side of the road when two males walked up to them and pointed what appeared to be a firearm at them. The suspects then made demands of money and robbed the males of an undisclosed amount of cash.
The Bermuda Police Service would advise the public that there will be a very robust police presence over the Holiday Period. We would like to bring a few things to the publics attention.