Woman injured in crosswalk hit-and-run
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a small white car with a registration number beginning with 188 after a hit-and-run on the West Bay Road Wednesday evening at around 8:30pm. A woman was using the crosswalk south of Gecko Link when she was hit by the car, which did not stop and left the scene. The woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to be discharged today.
Police did not say if the woman was a visitor to the islands or a local resident. Although there is CCTV in the area, there is no indication in the RCIPS release about the report that either the car or the incident were caught on camera.
The matter is currently under investigation and anyone who may have witnessed the incident or have any information is asked to contact the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit at 649-6254.
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Surely RCIPS have detail on the car by now?
I passed two 188 rentals on WBR today, one of which went thru a flashing crosswalk with people mid-crossing. No clue, and almost hit the curb. Neither were white cars.
Was the woman wearing dark clothing?
Was the driver drunk or speeding? Let’s just weigh in on victim blaming and personal prejudices or beliefs with out knowing anything about the case. How about asking why our cctv coverage doesn’t have the licence plate number or why the RCIPs given the first 3 numbers of a licence plate and the car colour and size can’t at least find a shortlist of suspects.
Why cant we use the CCTV footage?? What are we paying Security Centre for?
7:58am. Paying them and filling their pockets to SCAM taxpayers. The unity team governments is only for the elites. The laws they make are all against the indigenous Caymanians. Vote them out come 2021.
Send that person to prison for 10 years!! What a POS!!!
10 years? 40 years!
He drove his car into a human being!
I can’t see how the car would be that hard to find with half the license plate already known.
Just give it time … nuff cameras on WB Road and off ramps … the perp will be rounded up and let’s hope they get the book thrown at them!
If only they all worked not just watching HRH DART
Police? How many small white cars are there with 188 as part of their license number? Do you have computers and a database, quite apart from cctv. This stuff should not be nearly as hard as you seem to make it!
I’m pretty sure they are looking into it, but thanks for the tips Detective Obvious
Hey you have to when history shows our own police and detectives can’t see the obvious.
If it is so obvious why have they not arrested the person and seized the vehicle within hours of the incident? In a functioning system we should read of the incident AND of the arrest of the suspected driver, and learn that a car has been seized and undergoing forensic tests!
Sorry but my near disdain for the purported capabilities and effectiveness of the RCIP has been well entrenched for good reason. Prove me wrong, just a couple of times, and I will give the benefit of the doubt.
It should take minutes to find that car.
Not if the police are dysfunctional. Now can you see it?
Dysfunctional? That’s a polite way to put it.
Did the crosswalk have flashing lights or reflectors?
Was it a well lit road? Was the pedestrian wearing black or dark clothing (which could make it difficult to spot a pedestrian on dark roads)
Was the driver drunk?
Hope the driver is caught and brought to justice.
Good to know the woman pedestrian is safe.
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We have numerous different types of crossing.
1. Cardinal Avenue and South Church Street and many others. No warning signs at all.
2. Those with Zebras and those without.
3. Those will flashing signs.
4. Those will flashing lights and warning signs on WBR.
5. Those with chalk outlining the crossing on WBR.
6. Those with studs 15 yards away to stop parking within[ all ignored] and those without.
NRA needs to be consistent. There should also be a proper definition in the law. The present one is meaningless.
True. We also don’t have consistent speed limit signage, clear airport directions/route lighting, traffic circle markings, bike lanes/stencils, geometric lane division, use indicator signage, wheelchair accessible sidewalks, and so on. We put/leave utility poles in the middle of roads and pave around them as if they are UNESCO protected. We leave other roads without pedestrian walkways, curb roads to nowhere, rip them out and curb and pave a second or third time. No transparency on any of these expenditures or accounting of the false starts and redos. Do we even have any operational street cleaning vehicles? Where are those parked?!? It’s maddening incompetence.
Those crosswalks just appear out of nowhere in the middle of the night and are incomplete. She should sue the NRA.
Yeah super hard to see those flashing lights. Might be a better idea to drink less before you get behind the wheel.
I drive much better after a few drinks. 30 years of practice BoBo
Flashing lights on north lane at Westen are not working. Saw a car blow through yesterday almost hitting a pedestrian. I am going to count the days until they fix it. May start a pool on when it gets fixed. I have 287 days.
I’ll take that bet
Over or under?
Caymankind……….build it then don’t maintain it.
Sarcasm alert
Normal and what is expected of the many young local drivers here that the police seem so surprised about. No law enforcement means no respect for the law and other people lives being taught to those who need it. Cayman
Why assume the “unknown” assailant was a young driver? Distraction and inattention aren’t limited by age. We’ve had career Caymanian drivers fatally mowing down pedestrians here.
Experience. Good memory, Self preservation.
Young driver much?
Cayman Kind. you will be left for dead!!!