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Designated drivers will be rewarded with free soft drinks under a new Bermuda Road Safety Council programme to cut down on drink-driving. Council chairman Dennis Lister III said the move would encourage people to go out and socialise, but make sure t...

A man who refused a breath test because he thought a rum-based colon cleaning remedy would cause him to fail it has lost an appeal against his conviction for refusal to give a breath sample. George James said he drank a mix of overproof rum, garlic a...

An 88-year-old woman hurt in a three-vehicle crash two weeks ago was still in intensive care today. The woman was injured when her car was in collision with another car and a van on Warwick’s Middle Road at about 9am on November 20. She was described...

An 88-year-old woman remains in intensive care after a three-vehicle crash last Tuesday. The woman was hurt when the car she was driving collided with a car and van on Middle Road, Warwick, at about 9am. Police said she was in a stable condition in t...

The football coach winner of The Royal Gazette’s road safety campaign’s Facebook competition has red-carded drink driving and speeding. Calvin Blankendal said the Drive for Change campaign had made him more aware of the need for better behaviour on t...

Dear Sir, Driving in Bermuda at night can be a scary business. The very bright white lights on some oncoming cars and trucks are completely blinding. With narrow roads, pedestrians and bike riders in black clothes, these lights appear to create unnec...

Telecoms firm Digicel has joined forces with The Royal Gazette’s Drive for Change campaign to help stop mobile phone use when on the move and cut down on speeding. The telecommunications company said it wanted to help in the campaign to encourage r...

A total of five people were banned from the road and fined at Magistrates’ Court today for drink driving or refusal to take a breath test. Jason Brown pleaded guilty to driving while impaired. The court heard Brown was pulled over by police near We...

A Warwick man was banned from driving for 18 months and fined $1,500 yesterday for driving while impaired. Tiko Hassell, 41, admitted the offence in Magistrates’ Court. The court heard how, on November 4, Hassell was driving his car west at high spe...

A young motorcyclist was injured in a crash in Hamilton yesterday. The female teenager was taken by ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after the incident on Par-la-Ville Road at about 1.30pm. She appeared hurt but was conscious as she was...

A drink-driver followed by another road user tried to convince officers that he was not the driver of the car, Magistrates’ Court has heard. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo was told that Tyshaon Rawlins, 33, was seen to swerve along Barry Road after he le...

A man was rushed to hospital with serious injuries last night after a motorcycle crash in Hamilton Parish. A police spokesman said the single-vehicle crash happened on Harrington Sound Road at about 6.50pm. He added it appeared that the rider lost ...