Among the highest speeds recorded was 103 kilometres per hour
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Press release:
As the Bermuda Police Service (BPS) maintains high visibility policing initiatives across the island, officers this past weekend issued a total of 63 tickets for speeding offences.
As if that were not sufficient cause for concern, among that number was one person clocked at 101 kilometres per hour and another, clocked at 103 kilometres per hour.
Further, 18 people were ticketed for having no driver’s licence and or, driving an unlicensed, uninsured vehicle.
Acting Superintendent Robert Cardwell, of the BPS Tactical Division, stated: “It is particularly worrying that despite repeated advisories that police are out conducting speed checks, along with stop and search checks, that individuals would show such wanton disregard for the law. Not to mention the lives of other members of the public, as well as their own. The risk of injury, or worse, is significantly magnified at such speeds.”
“Thankfully, our officers were able to intervene and prevent any possible tragedy. Those individuals found speeding, as well as persons operating unlicensed, uninsured vehicles, or operating vehicles while not having a driver’s licence, will soon be appearing before the courts. The number of people operating uninsured, unlicensed vehicles and persons operating vehicles while not having a valid driver’s licence, is also cause for concern. As a reminder, it is an offence to drive an unlicensed or insured vehicle, or to be in control of a vehicle without a valid driver’s licence.”
With the festive season practically upon us, with the attendant parties and other gatherings, the public can expect a heightening of our ongoing roads policing operations.
