The Mountain Road has been closed a number of time following collisions

Police are urging bikers to rider to their capabilities following a series of accidents on the island’s roads.

Yesterday police dealt with six collisions, only four of these on the TT course and only two of them on the Mountain section.

Fortunately none were very serious and most riders walked away with only minor injuries.

Most of these involved ’too much speed and not enough skill’, said Sergeant Barry Hand of the roads policing unit.

One rider was extremely lucky to suffer only minor injuries when they rounded a bend and into the back of a wagon at Hibernia.

But the luck ran out for a foreign biker who was taken to hospital with a broken leg after she was involved in collision in the south of the island.

There were five reported collisions on the island’s roads on Tuesday, three being on the TT course and two of those on the Mountain section which resulted in the Mountain Road being closed.

The first of these was at the 33rd Milestone and involved a visiting motorcyclist being taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Only 10 minutes after the road reopened, there was another collision involving two bikes at the Verandah. A local rider sustained serious injuries with fractures to his arm, shoulder and legs.

The injuries were not life-threatening but the road was closed for about three hours while police investigators gathered evidence. A foreign national was arrested at the scene and was detained at police headquarters.

Riders have also been caught speeding in 30mph zones by unmarked police bikes.

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