RVIPF: 7 of eight serious collisions this year are scooter related
The following is a media release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).
Statistics for 2022 show seven of the eight serious accidents recorded involved a motor scooter or motorcycle.
Similarly, of the 35 accidents with injuries, 16, almost half, are scooter/motorcycle related. A total of 38 recorded accidents involved motor scooters or motorcycles for the year.
Head of the Road Policing Unit Kishon Leslie says the numbers are alarmingly high half way through the year.
While not all the accidents are the fault of the scooter rider, the injuries sustained by the rider are far greater.
“Accidents involving scooters tend to be serious because the body of a rider is exposed and more vulnerable to injuries. Without a crash helmet these injuries are even more substantial to include broken bones and brain injuries,” he said.
He stated that scooters are very efficient in terms of travel, gas and parking, however, a higher level of attentiveness must be exercised by riders to avoid collisions.
He noted that just the opposite is being practiced and he is not seeing the required due care and attention by riders on our roadways.
Police recorded five road fatalities for the year, three were riders motor scooters.
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What is going to be done about:
– Raise driver’s age to 18 year
– Check on insurance and raise fines
– Check on helmets and raise fines
– Check if bikes are not modified if so confiscate
– Pursue the legal guardian if age below 18
– Crush all illegally imported & modified bikes
– Enforce, enforce, enforce
Please let the scooter accidents continue. First, these gold chained, non helmet wearing, drug dealing useless offspring of the controlling families need to disappear. They are everything that is wrong in human form with the BVI. Reducing this useless population will only help the recovery of the Territory not to mention roads being safer and quieter at night. Scooter riders please carry on with your quest to end your own life.
In a democracy ,self determination is your right. These individuals determined to end their existence via a bucket of bolts should be free to do just that.
Relatives should seize the investment opportunity by enrolling as beneficiaries on life insurance policies for their self destructive adult ninjas.
Thank you for those wise words. Any logical person will be careful while riding. These youths and other reckless riders/drivers are what’s causing a problem.
You were exactly the same at their age.
Please this thing has little to do with what they are wearing or not wearing. It’s not bike modification or the loud sounds coming from the bikes. Its the just young people with foolish and complete disregard for the traffic rules and laws. They believe accidents only happen to the other guy. You are not invisible my brothers find reasons to live.
Who watch them breaking the Laws daily and do nothing. .The police lack of action has turn this mold sand into a huge mountain..
FOR THE CRACKHEADS PLAYING STUNTSMEN , BLAME THEM WHEN THE GO AFTER THEM FOR BREAKING THE LAW AND BEING CRUCIFIED BY YOU ALL FOR TRYING TO ENFORCE THE SAME LAW YOU YAPPIN ABOUT, DON’T BLAME THE PARENTS , THEY ARE HOLY