A man has been arrested in connection with the traffic collision that killed Jen-Naya Simmons.

A police spokesman confirmed last night that a 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with her death and that he was in custody as the investigation continued.

Ms Simmons, 18, died after a collision on North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, east of the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, at about 3.30am on July 15.

She was the seventh person to die on Bermuda’s roads this year.