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A man who admitted three offences related to drink-driving offences was told he was the embodiment of the reason for the introduction of roadside breath tests. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told Fabio Barbosa on Monday: “You are the personification o...

A teenager injured in a crash early yesterday is still in hospital in a stable condition. A police spokesman said the 17-year-old boy was involved in a two-motorcycle collision at about 4.30am at the junction of Cobbs Hill Road and Ord Road in Paget....

Drivers will be offered two extra hours of free parking in a Hamilton city car park if they leave their vehicle overnight on a Friday in an effort to discourage drink-driving. Now motorists will have until 10am on a Saturday to collect their vehicles...

Police are looking for two people who fled the scene of a crash that injured a teenager this morning. A police spokesman said the two-motorcycle collision took place at about 4.30am near the junction of Cobbs Hill Road and Ord Road, Paget. The spokes...

A 31-year-old man admitted yesterday he refused to take a breath test after he was found lying in the road near a crashed bike. Magistrates’ Court heard that Darrin Deshield, of Warwick, was found by a passer-by on January 4 on South Road in Devonshi...

A 60-year-old man whose car plunged about 70 feet down a cliff face into the sea on Saturday said yesterday that staying calm helped save his life. Franklyn Roberts said: “I wasn’t worried and I didn’t panic because I realised I was already in the si...

Police have warned bike riders who perform “wheelies” they are risking their lives and others. The caution came after officers watched footage of riders that appeared online this week. The one-minute clip shows a motorcyclist, filmed by another rider...

A 39-year-old woman was banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday after she admitted a New Year’s Day drink-driving charge. Magistrates’ Court heard that Dawn Trott, from Paget, was found to be almost double the legal alcohol limit. Trott was s...

A 26-year-old woman was banned from the roads for 18 months for drink-driving yesterday after police spotted her shrubbery-covered car in the early hours of the morning. Magistrates’ Court heard officers spotted Jennifer Ross’s “extensively damaged” ...

A man who refused to take a breath test was ordered off the roads for 18 months yesterday. Daniel Tucker, from Devonshire, was spotted by police near the Esso gas station on Hamilton’s Par-la-Ville Road. Magistrates’ Court heard that Tucker, 30, was...

A 60-year-old man escaped uninjured after driving his car overboard in Southampton. The incident happened on Middle Road, near Five Star Island, at about 5.20pm on Saturday. A police spokesman said: “It appears that the car involved was being driven ...

Two men were banned from the roads for 18 months after they admitted drink-driving yesterday. Magistrates’ Court heard Rohan Simons, 41, of Warwick, was arrested and charged after a crash on Somerset Road on December 21. A breath test showed Simons h...