An American visitor was killed on Saturday morning after his motorbike crashed head-on into a taxi.

Frederick Maccubbin, 50, from Baltimore, Maryland, died shortly after the crash at the junction of Paynter's Road and Harrington Sound Road, near the Tucker's Point Club.

According to Police, Mr. Maccubbin lost control of his rental cycle as he was trying to negotiate a sharp right hand bend on Paynter's Road, colliding with the taxi which was travelling in the opposite direction just before 9.30 a.m.

Mr. Maccubbin was on holiday on his own, according to Police, and had been staying at the Grotto Bay Beach Hotel.

He is the sixth person to be killed on Bermuda's roads this year.

Tucker's Town residents Colin and Helen James arrived at the scene minutes after the crash and tried to comfort the dying man.

Mrs. James said yesterday: "We were driving along Paynter's Road when the accident had happened a few minutes before.

"We had no idea what had happened and the man was lying on the ground critically injured.

The taxi driver had called or was calling 911.

"There was not a lot we could do. We covered him up with towels and my husband sat with him until the end.

"My husband wasn't sure if he had passed away by the time they took him away, but he wasn't conscious. After the ambulance took him away, someone said five minutes after that he was dead. It's so sad."