Oyster Pond:--- An early morning accident between a motorcycle, a jeep and a car has left the 22 year old rider of the motor cycle dead. The victim has been identified as Mamboute Mitchel of Dutch Quarter.
Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson said the police traffic department had a busy weekend, the most serious accident he said occurred early Sunday morning at approximately 06:30am on the New Oyster pond road. On the scene the investigating officers encountered a very serious accident between a motorcycle with license plate 766ZAQ971 and a gray Daihatsu Jeep.
The motorcycle rider who was seriously injured was lying on the side of street after the impact. According to witnesses, the victim and the rider of another motorcycle were riding at very high speed coming from the direction of Border Bar towards Bishop Hill road. At the section of road where the accident took place they were overtaking a black Hyundai Getz heading in the same direction. However, while overtaking this car the motorcycle riders did notice the oncoming traffic which was the gray Daihatsu jeep. 
A head-on collision between one of the motorcycles and the jeep took place with the victim landing on the street. The driver of the black car could not stop the car in time and accidentally drove over both legs of the victim fracturing both of them. The paramedics treated the victim by the name of Mabouto Mitchell, 22 years of age on the scene and then rushed him to the hospital where he died shortly after. The police traffic department and Forensic department are investigating to determine exactly what happened.
The Police traffic department is requesting the rider of the other motorcycle who was present at the time of this fatal accident to report to the Traffic department, to give a statement with regard what exactly happened to bring some clarity to this case.
In an unrelated case, the police traffic department responded at the Princess Juliana International Airport on Saturday afternoon where two persons were injured and had to be attended to by paramedics. One of the victims has been identified as a D.W. from the U.S. who got accidentally squeezed between two taxis and suffered a cut above his left eye and complained of severe pain in his left leg. He was transported by ambulance to the Sint Maarten Medical Center for treatment and was admitted for further treatment and observation.
Taxi Driver Mistreated by Gypsy driver.
On Sunday January 23rd at approximately 03:50am, a police patrol was sent to the Sint Maarten Medical Center to investigate a case of ill treatment. At the medical institution, the patrol spoke to the victim, a taxi driver, with the initials O.H. who stated that earlier while in the vicinity of BLISS, he had verbal confrontation with the “gypsy taxi driver” about the transporting of a tourist. The situation escalated and a fight broke out between them. During the fight he suffered three stab wounds to his stomach and several cuts to both hands. The victim stated that he was possibly stabbed with a knife. After the incident the “gypsy driver” drove away in his car. The victim drove himself to the Sint Maarten Medical Center to get medical treatment. The Detectives also arrived at the hospital and started an investigation into this case.
