Man’s body found on GT highway
(CNS): The RCIPS has now confirmed that the body found on the Linford Pierson Highway early this morning is that of Donnie Ray Connor (59) from George Town. Police and the emergency medical services were alerted by a member of the public who discovered the body on the George Town Road at about 4-30 am and police have said the man who was on a bicycle appears to have been the victim of a hit and run. The RCIPS Traffic Management Unit is investigating the incident and officers are appealing for witnesses who may have travelled on the Linford Pierson Highway between midnight and 4am.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Senior Investigating Officer, Inspector Adrian Barnett at 5262204. Alternatively, witnesses can contact the George Town Police Station on 9494222 ; the RCIPS tip line at 9497777 or anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 800-8477 (TIPS)
Police officers closed a portion of the highway between Agnes Way and the Crewe Road roundabout for more than four hours this morning, after the body was found and it re-opened around 9am. Drivers had been diverted onto South Sound Road or Crewe Road while investigators were at the scene.
Check back to CNS later today for a full report on the latest road fatality.
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There is almost NO law enforcement on the roads in Cayman. Early mourning rush hour from east end and north side is a free for all for the racers who need to pass as many people as possible to rack up the points and heavy equipment that needs to travel on the road need to do it in mourning traffic so they don’t get caught because there are NO cops on the road until after 9:00am. Add to the mix the many bus, taxi, and people who stop to pick up passengers while blocking traffic with their cars and bodies so they don’t lose their place in line. This is the typical Cayman style of dealing with a problem. Do nothing except clean up the accidents. The best way to survive here is to expect bad, disrespectful, and dangerous driving.
Its a great chance to look busy and important. The number of police to turn up to a minor incident is laughable when normally they are virtually invisible.
Didn’t the editor of the cayman compass a few weeks ago complained about traffic and suggested cycling as an alternative to work? This is why we do not dare cycle on these roads they are not safe and people who drives do not regard cyclists as users of our road ways.
3 types of people will mow you down at 4am when you are riding a bicycle:
1. Drunk Driver returning home from the club;
2. People racing who are returning home from the Club; and
3. People returning home from the Club who catch you in their house and chase you down.
So what do you do to catch that person?
Pray that the CCTV cameras at either end of the bypass were switched on and recording, take the license plates, find out where the owners lives, check their front ends.
Bingo, you have your killer.
Given the limited number of vehicles on the road at that time of morning it MUST surely be the case that the vehicle responsible was caught by a cctv camera at one end of the LHP or the other. Hint. It was the one going fast at around 4.30am.
Working cctv in Cayman, i think not.
Was he going to work? Coming home? Out for some excersize? Knowing this will answer the time of the accident, and the direction he was traveling. That plus CCTV should have the RCIPS knocking on someone’s door before sundown today. Failing that a roadblock for the next 7 nights at the time of the accident on South Sound Rd, LPH, and Crewe Road and they will get a chance to meet the offending driver. Maybe even give out a few tickets to pay for the operation.
If they are worth the money spent to purchase them, they would produce good information to work with. Too many incidents and the cameras aren’t helping to solve any crime.
The cameras may be working, it’s the handlers of the camera who may not!
Our condolences are extended to the family! We pray for peace and comfort!
To the driver:- you are heartless and wicked!! Praying you’ll never have to experience that pain of loss in addition not knowing WHO and your explanation!!
But watch out ole heart:- KARMA comes in a circle…….praying to God that your evil action doesn’t fall down to your 3rd and 4th generation; as the Bible says it WILL!!
DRIVER TURN YOURSELF IN or pay the price of the piper cause it coming……..may not be today, next week, next year……..BUT IT COMING!!
I am more afraid of people like you, than the driver that caused this accident:
3th and 4th generation BS.
You have to be a fool if you believe that stuff.
Whoever did this needs to be caught and punished. What a shame and disgrace to do this to another human being and leave them there. You are a sorry case for a human being whoever you are.
RIP and condolences to the man’s family.
There is NO excuse for hit-and-run. A couple weeks ago after a hi-and-run in Bodden Town, I posted a comment that we should not become like Miami, the hit-and-run rate of which is astounding.
However, just yesterday I posted about RCIPS cracking down on cyclists on bikes without lights. I would not know the contributing factors to this accident but riding a bike in the dark without lights is inviting an accident – most certainly to the cyclist’s detriment.
An RCIPS van was right behind me this morning on a major roundabout when someone without right of way pulled out on the roundabout. I needed to slam on my brakes to avoid an accident. Now you would think this police van would pulled the driver over and give them some basic rules about driving onto a roundabout. Not a bit of it. I guess they would have to know the rules to do that.
Hit and run. Typical. Caymankind……
I’m not sure of the point of this comment. There are about 80 hit and runs each week in London alone. The USA has plenty and it is growing problem in Canada, so I guess I would say humankind?
I assume by your ignorant claim of usual “Caymankind” you seem to know for a fact it was a Caymanian?!
Since I have came to this island, it appears to me that there are more expats driving the roads than there are locals. So it could have been ANYONE.
You didn’t even offer condolences to the family of the victim! Just straight to your hate remarks.
If you hate this place and it’s people, why do you torture yourself by remaining. I personally have found Caymanians to be some of the most welcoming people.
My sincere condolences to the family.
As another expat I want to thank you for this. I remember being shocked when I first came to the island years ago and saw so many of my expat colleagues and their friends partying and getting completely sloshed after work most nights and on a weekend only to get behind a steering wheel and drive a car full equally drunk colleagues home. Everyone of every nationality partial to drinking and partying is guilty of this, because seemingly it’s easy to get away with.
I have so had enough of the sarky divisive comments on CNS generally, but that was just uncalled for and completely out of order.
My sincere and heart-felt condolences to family and friends. I really hope there were working cameras to catch the offender.
@10:20 hate will slowly consume you my friend.How can you move to another country and dislike the people and its culture?! I bet you also think that all Muslims are terrorist,all African Americans are criminals and all Mexicans are illegal immigrants as well?My point is not everyone that’s from here is the same so please get that through your thick skull of yours!
Another trajedy and my best guess it is due, at least in part, if not in full, to the lack of police presence on our roads. When people know there is no traffic department in the RCIP, they will take more chances speeding, driving with defective vehicles, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol and other abuses of the law. Policing in Cayman has been steadily deteriorating and unfortunately too many people are paying for that with their lives. Please tell me why we are still tolerating the mismanagement of our RCIP?
Condolences to this mans family, unlikely a police presence would change the unfortunate outcome of this accident, but….
I never see a speed trap anywhere, i never see anyone set up near a stop sign to ticket people that feel stopping is only a recommendation, i have never seen anyone pulled over to have tint or a plate shield removed roadside, I have never seen anyone on west bay road when the centre lane is used as a high speed bypass…
You would think that with the obvious level of poor and reckless drivers on our roads that a diligent effort of revenue generation from traffic tickets would be an obvious move by the RCIPS.
And the cops will happily watch pickup trucks with people in the back bed drive along right in front of them.
Never seen anyone pulled over for being in the wrong lane on a roundabout, never seen anyone pulled over for having people in the back of a truck, never seen anyone for doing wheelies down the main road, the list goes on. To be honest, I don’t remember the last time I saw anyone pulled over and I barely ever see a police on the road. And when I do they aren’t paying attention or don’t know the law anyway.
This is part of the Caymankind that everyone knows about. They have a police force but do not want any kind of meaningful enforcement because it would piss of the locals. Or is there another reason?
RCIPS cannot enforce the rules of the road because they do not have an idea of them. Have you seen them trying to traverse a roundabout lately, overtaking in the wrong lane, parking on roundabouts while they investigate an accident or pull someone over.
Heartfelt condolences to the poor man and his family, and total condemnation of the driver of the vehicle who would leave a person lying dead or dying in the road.
But I want to add a point about cyclists, that has nothing to do with apportioning blame to anyone involved in this accident. Please cyclists follow the rules of the road. Too often I see cyclists cycling on the wrong side of the road…heading towards the oncoming traffic as if they were pedestrians. This is so dangerous in a country where we have so many roundabouts. When you negotiate a roundabout from the wrong direction the driver is not looking that way to see if he has room to move onto the roundabout. Similarly when you come to a junction the driver is not looking that way to see if he can pull out in the direction you are coming from. This is an accident waiting to happen when a car pulls out and hits a cyclist he just did not see. Please cyclists cycle on the correct side of the road.
Condolences to the family of Mr. Connor. Not related to this incident, but I would also like to add this for the pedestrian. When you are walking or crossing the road at night, either wear light or bright coloured clothing or wear something that radiates or light that blinks. It is not easy to see people in dark clothing against the background of dark sky, even if the roads are lit well. So please for your own sake, and for the sake of rash drivers, wear something that would make you visible when you walk at nights.
Maybe it should be made into a law not to wear dark clothing while walking on the roads at night!! This could also keep away those robbers in dark pants, shirts and hoodies!!
Cyclists also need to stay in their bicycle lane on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway. I often see cyclists go into the outer lane, especially on the Highway roundabouts. I have seen a number of near accidents on this Highway recently and believe it is only a matter of time before a cyclist is hurt. Cyclists, please stay in the bicycle lane.
Sorry to hear about this, my sympathy to everyone,
but WHY would anyone ride a bike on these roads and most times they are on the wrong side of the street. Go jogging and swimming on the beach it’s healthier and safer.
That time of the morning? right… Then some low life jumps out at you and robs you for everything you have on you with a machete. There’s some risk in every activity you take part in these days. Sh*t happens.
Not everyone can afford a car. There are no buses late night /early morning and taxis are a rip off. It’s not really wise to hitch a ride not only because the driver could be a shady character but moreso because most drivers at that time are likely drunk and / or high. I don’t know many who would go for a jog or a walk on the beach at 4 in the morning!
My sincere and heart-felt condolences to family and friends of the deceased.
Best wishes to the family this person i hope the driver is found. But, why couldnt the police close the highway coming out of town and let the morning traffic use that lane? Why does it seem that our police never have a brain?