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Bike rider crashes into car and truckThree people escaped serious injury after a bike crashed on Harbour Road - and then struck a truck.
Police said the bike was badly damaged after it was in collision with a car leaving Valley Road, Paget. The bike then veered into the other side of the road and collided with an oncoming truck.
The rider of the bike, a 27-year-old Southampton woman, was injured but apparently did not attend hospital.
The car driver, 49, from Warwick, and truck driver, 21, from Hamilton Parish, were not injured.
The crash happened at 4.30 p.m. on Monday.Burglar nabs 56 cigarette cartonsA burglar broke into the Collectors Hill Apothecary in Smith’s Parish over the weekend and stole 56 cartons of cigarettes.
The burglar is thought to have gained entrance to the store in the early hours of Sunday and took the various cartons of assorted cigarettes, including Kool, Marlboro, Camel and Winston brands. The crime was uncovered at 7 a.m. on Sunday and Police are now investigating the incident. Plea for hit-and-run witnessesWitnesses are wanted after a Sandys hit-and-run.
Police are looking for a white jeep with damage to its front end.
The jeep, believed to have hit another vehicle on Scaur Hill at 8 a.m. yesterday, has the numbers 501 in its licence plate — but they may not be in that order. Witnesses should call P.c. Melesia Iris at Somerset Police Station on 234-1010.Police in the fast lanePolice have warned that officers on a driver training course could be speeding around the Island’s roads over the next few weeks.
Two officers and an instructor will sometimes be travelling at high speeds on bikes, until November 24, although they will be wearing reflective vests making them “highly visible”, a spokesman said. Dawn surprise for Smith’s homeownerA car that crashed into the front yard of a private residence in Smith’s parish shortly before dawn on Sunday was unoccupied when Police arrived to investigate shortly afterwards.
The driver and any other occupants of the car had fled the scene after it went over a wall and overturned in the yard of a residential premises on Gilbert Hill at 6 a.m.
Police are still trying to work out how the accident occurred. When officers arrived to investigate all occupants of the car had left the scene. The house was not damaged in the incident.
Shortly after midnight the same day, a silver Opel car travelling east on South Road near the junction with Sommersall Road, Smith’s parish lost control and hit an embankment, causing the car to overturn.
The woman was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after refusing to take an alco-analyser test, according to Bermuda Police Service. Investigations into both incidents are underway.