Public bus and car collide on Shedden Rd
(CNS): A Hyundai i10 crashed into the back of a public bus on Shedden Road on Wednesday morning, police said. The two-vehicle collision happened around 10:20am on 4 March near Printer Way, when the Hyundai collided with the rear of the bus, which had pulled off to the roadside.
Police said all 12 passengers of the bus and the drivers of both vehicles were transported to the Cayman Islands Hospital for treatment for minor injuries.
The matter is currently under police investigation.
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Don’t blame the bus drivers only. Blame the law which could enforce only pickup at bus stops. But we hardly have any. The customers which are mostly domestic workers who don’t understand how dangerous it is to pick them up on a corner. They sometimes don’t allow the bus driver if they want a ride. So they put up their hand the last moment because they believe the bus is a flying saucer. Most can’t read and write so they think all busses are allowed to pickup up passengers on the road and pay them. Some public bus drivers shouldn’t be driving and have had many, many complaints. It was in the newspaper 400 complaints. Why are they still driving? Friends in Gov’t? graft? what or why are they still on the road? Isn’t that the reason we are in this mess of too many cars on the road? Because we can’t rely on good public bus service. If we really want good bus service hire the right people. Stop the small busses and get proper large bus service that went to a driving school and learned defensive driving. In fact I would suggest every high school student have a course in school before they get a license.
Every time I drive on the road I feel I have entered Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
A serious problem is that NRA/PWD for the past 50 years have ignore bus stops completely and so buses cannot pull off the road. If Cayman starts to use larger buses which they need do then all traffic will need stop. It is not too late to fix it and land owners will need to give up small pieces of land to accommodate the buses.
Once the hotels in town are built and the hotel at the Royal Palms, West Bay Road will become gridlocked without a new road on the outskirts of town directly to the by pass. This does not even take into account any drastic increase in cruise ship passengers should the new port ever evolve.
This is not rocket scientist stuff but needs to be done now.
Whilst I am on it we need a proper sidewalk from the fish market going north and the RICP need stop vehicles parking on the sidewalks. Cayman needs become more pedestrian friendly and Segways should not be allowed on sidewalks. Last week a tourist in a wheelchair had to give way whilst 50 of them passed by. They also should not be allowed on the beach.
All of the above can be fixed with a bit of community effort and drive.
If you hit the vehicle in front of you, it is always your fault.
No matter the behaviour of the vehicle you hit.
Keep 4 seconds distance.
Except if you are stopped a reasonable distance from the car in front and someone rear ends you into it!
Lets us all EGG them, when they stop sudden, pull in front without indications, stop & blocking lane, brake to pickup and let off passenger every 50ft, stop on a round about to pickup and let off passenger’s and merge into lane without indicator in front of you. LETS EGG THEM ALL.
Maybe I should keep some eggs in my pocket when walking my dogs for the bus drivers never dim there lights and/or drive with their blinding fog lights on all of the time. I wear a high viability reflective t-shirt and carry a flash light so there is no way they can not see me from a distance
In the Brac Police drive around with their car head lights on high beam, partly blinding other traffic, never dim their lights for coming vehicles etc
The bus driver may well have acted recklessly in either stopping suddenly or parked. However, if you crash into the back of a vehicle, it is you that is at fault. You are either speeding or not paying attention or travelling too close to the vehicle in front. This is the hard fact!
“Pulled off to the roadside”? You mean suddenly stopped slightly left of the middle of the road without indicating!
It’s the bus fault, end of the investigation.
All you have to do is wait. If you can’t wait a minute or two, move to another island. Chill out, man
What kind of liability insurance bus drivers carry? It is standard to require at least $2mil. per accident.
Is it a requirement here?
This was long overdue ,the way these bus drivers drive on the road .thank God no lives were lost .
One day a dump truck will run into the back of a bus and kill everybody in board. Mark my words
Its one big game of chicken especially when the buses pull half off half on the road and you can’t see around them to tell if a car is coming. Just of the many stupid driving habits everyone needs to watch out for here. Someday its gonna be bad.
Sad but true!
These buss drivers have no regards for the safety of anyone, including themselves!
They are totally reckless and will cut in the front of anyone at anytime.
We need to centralize this as a national service offered to the public.
Purchase good equipment, train our drivers, set proper routes, and continue installing proper buss stops, set the rules, and then follow and enforce those rules!
Not in this lifetime bobo.
And tracking equipment. For many reasons.