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Risks on Bermuda’s roads are being heightened by large construction vehicles taking up space and slowing traffic during rush hours when they are officially bannned, motorists have warned. The Transport Control Department is contacted every week by pe...

The Drive for Change campaign will be out in force at Gorham’s this weekend. People are invited to meet road safety campaigners and win prizes this weekend at two special events at the Pembroke hardware store. The Royal Gazette’s Drive for Change cam...

A Pembroke man found with open beer bottles in his car has been banned from driving for a year. Jakai Harford, 35, was stopped by police at about 12.40am on September 2. Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that officers in an unmarked police car saw H...

A woman was charged yesterday with causing the death of a passenger in her car when she crashed in St George’s. Kelly-Ann Damasio, 30, was accused of causing the death by dangerous driving of Rakai Augustus. Magistrates’ Court was told that Mr August...

Bermuda’s taxi drivers faced a barrage of criticism yesterday after an apparent lack of cabs as the island’s first breath test checkpoints went operational last weekend. One post on Facebook’s MAJ’s List with a photo of an empty taxi rank on Front S...

Drink-driving arrests were almost double the monthly average at the weekend as roadside breath test checkpoints were deployed for the first time. Police arrested eight people for drink-driving last Friday and Saturday nights. That compared with one o...

Hurtling along the roads of Paget and Devonshire, blue flashing lights seemed to bounce off every surface. We were chasing a “suspect cycle” although I did not have a clear idea of why the rider was at fault. But the energy and intensity of the offic...

A drink-driver who seriously injured two of his passengers in a crash has been fined banned from the roads for three years. Jachael Gibson, 25, from Warwick, admitted two counts of causing grievous bodily harm by driving while over the legal alcohol ...

A driver caught speeding at 98km/h was almost twice the legal drink-driving limit. Mical Trott, 29, of Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty to providing a sample of breath above the legal limit and speeding at Magistrates’ Court on Friday. The court hear...

Several hundred drivers were stopped over the weekend after police set up their first roadside breath test checkpoints. Officers stopped and spoke to about 200 road users between Saturday night and the early hours of yesterday alone. Hundreds more w...

Bermuda Police Service said the tally of failed tests meant “five lives saved”. Officers were stationed in Devonshire and Paget to stop drivers and riders and test them in an to curb the island’s high rates of death and injury on the roads. BPS traff...

A total of 1,224 people needed hospital treatment after road crashes in the first eight months of the year. Bermuda Hospitals Board statistics revealed 92 of the victims were later admitted to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital acute care wards a...