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No escape: Police officers pursue a car involved in a high-speed police chase along Parsons Road, Pembroke, yesterday afternoon.

A high-speed chase, cars colliding through walls and battered buses have all kept the Bermuda Police Service busy the last few days.

Just yesterday while a photographer for this paper was capturing Police training in progress, a high-speed chase of a man in a blue convertible flew by.

Tamell Simons, along with officers performing licensing and other checks on vehicles watched as about half a dozen marked police cars, unmarked police cars and police motorcycles sped along Parsons Road in Pembroke around 2.30 p.m.

Only minutes after witnessing this high speed chase, Mr. Simons also saw the Police lead the driver of the blue car away in handcuffs.

"It all happened pretty quickly. He (the driver) looked very calm about it," Mr. Simons said. A Police spokesperson had no additional information about the event.

About the same time, yesterday, another photographer found a car that had run through the perimeter wall of Centenary United Methodist Church in Smith's.

The driver was uninjured while an unlucky motorcyclist had a run-in with Police on Monday when he overtook a truck which was towing a trailer and collided with a Police car.

Around 5.40 p.m. on Middle Road in Smith's parish near Twins Variety a truck towing a trailer was travelling west.

It appears that as the truck was turning left into a private driveway, a 42-year-old, Devonshire motorcyclist attempted to overtake the truck and instead collided with the Police car.

The Devonshire man suffered a broken leg and cuts while his bike was extensively damaged and the driver of the Police car was unhurt with only moderate damage to the front end of their car.

Earlier that day around 2.40 p.m. Police reported to a collision between a bus and an 'amusement train' on Maritime Lane, Sandys.

Both vehicles were travelling south on Maritime Lane when the train stopped and the bus attempted to overtake it resulting in the vehicles colliding and one of the bus' windows being damaged.

The bus was full of passengers and three of them received minor injuries which required treatment by EMT's at the scene and continued on to their destination.

Neither driver of the vehicles were injured.

Around 4:55 p.m. on Monday, Police attended a single vehicle road traffic collision resulting in injury on North Shore Road in Pembroke, near the junction with West Park Lane.

It appears that a car was travelling west on North Shore Road when the driver, a 21 year old Pembroke woman, lost control and collided with a utility pole. The Pembroke woman sustained injuries to her shoulder, chest, hip and stomach. The car was extensively damaged.

And according to statistics from the Police, during last week there were 20 collisions resulting in injuries, 37 damage only collisions, five arrests for impaired driving and 22 stolen vehicles.

There were three vehicles stolen in St. George's, two in Hamilton Parish, two in Devonshire, 11 in Pembroke, one in Paget, one in Warwick, one in Southampton and one in Sandys.

The majority of the vehicles removed were either auxiliary cycles or motorcycles, with 1 car also stolen during the period. Of the 22 vehicles reported stolen 5 were subsequently recovered, including the car.

Police officers lead away a man who was involved in a high-speed police chase along Parsons Road Pembroke Tuesday afternoon
Hole in the wall: A female driver lost control of her car and crashed it through the wall surrounding Centenary United Methodist Church in Smith's, yesterday.