80 drivers caught using mobile phones
(CNS): The RCIPS traffic unit has issued 80 tickets over the last month to drivers using mobile phones behind the wheel as part of a clampdown on distracted driving. Targeted traffic operations are ongoing and the police are encouraging everyone to do their part in making Cayman’s roads safer by not using mobile phones while driving or engaging in any other forms of distraction. Chief Inspector Malcolm Kay said this latest group of ticketed drivers are all now facing a fine of $150 each
“This is money they could have saved if they had followed the rules of the road, and shows that using a phone while driving is not only dangerous, but potentially expensive,” he said. “While the number of tickets we have issued in the past month shows how prevalent this practice is, we hope our efforts will be effective in deterring motorists from continuing to take this risk.”
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If they only cracked down on gun packing thugs, it’d yield a much greater benefit. Low hanging fruit is the enforcement preference
Now, if only they cracked down on speeders
They did that about 3 or 4 months ago. Wasted all their man hours to catch people speeding and failed to properly police the night life and all hell broke loose wi people shootin up the place.
Only 80?
You need to change the capture team man . They blind?
Can the police explain why the lobbied for, and got, an exemption in the law for police to use their mobile phones whilst driving? Being hit by a distracted police driver hurts just as much.
(And, no, emergency police business isn’t a reason as that would be covered under existing common law.)
Like there’s not bigger crimes and issues in Cayman.
8:18 am: when they kill themselves or a pedestrian, you will be the first to shout.
Coujf the police extend their vigilance at the Hurley’s roundabout also.
The movement of traffic from the two lane from GT across the Hurley’s roundabout is widely misunderstood.
Right now most people are avoiding the middle lane as the approaching drivers from the right lane tend to cross over into the middle lane. To avoid collisions drivers in the left lane cross over into the far left lane bordering Hurley’s and others are deliberately choosing the right approach lane to cross over into the corresponding right lane (and change lanes later).
The whole fact of the matter is that drivers need to stay in their lane as they move across the roundabout. If you are in the right lane, cross over to the right lane. If you are in the left lane, cross over into the middle lane.
With the level of construction going on in the complex at left of these traffic lanes, it could become chaotic if people do not stay in their lanes.
80 a month. That’s roughly 4 per working day. Hardly something to shout about. Need to up this to 80 per day. And add confiscation of the phone to the penalty.
I agree with you and its too rampant in Cayman and needs to stop, they should increase the fines to $300 . I can’t see the reason if you alone in your vehicle why you cant put phone on seat and speaker on and talk rather than trying to maneuver in busy traffic with holding phone to your ear, another thing would be getting a Bluetooth player installed in your vehicle that allows hands free operation.
I see at least 80 on their phones in one day haha.
Travelling down Walkers Rd yesterday behind a Land Rover Defender – it went off the road onto the grass verge because the driver was on the phone. He was lucky to keep control of the vehicle. The previous evening I let a guy out of the junction opposite Burger King in GT, he then proceeds to go at 15mph and I can see he’s driving extra slowly because he’s on the phone. The fine should be $1000 and a conviction for driving without due care and attention.
Stopping to let people out is worse. You should be prosecuted. Just stop it!
My apologies – I will not be doing it again.
They definitely need to increase the fines and the careless idiots will stop using the mobile phones
what about the other 60,000 ?
Please dispel this ridiculous behaviour whereby people think it’s ok to talk to their phones whilst holding it flat in front of their mouths like a Snickers bar. As if that’s technically “on speaker” so somehow legal. No. No. No.
Can we also have PSAs on how to drive with frickin low beam headlights?
It’s dangerous, selfish and perpetrated by the criminally stupid. It’s also ticketable.
Also, can anyone confirm any sightings of fog here in Cayman? There’s plenty of dazzling foglights ablaze, often without even using headlights, with the pinhead drivers seemingly unaware that the area of road they illuminate are very different.
The worst are the owners of German saloons. Audi, BMW, and Mercedes with front AND rear foglights illuminated because the drivers just press every button on their console with no idea what they’re doing.
Oh, the stupidity here is a special kind!
WTF, rear fog lights? Boi, mi gotta get me summa dem.
Yeah boi. You can tell, as they’re as bright as brake lights!
Did the original poster know the difference between the front and rear of the car, or do they drive in reverse all the time? If so they’re about as bright as black hole.
INCREASE THE FINE! To $500 minimum. Make it mean something.
I could issue 80 a day I reckon!
Still, it’s a start, but it won’t change anything. The only way it’ll alter is if the fine is larger, or it’s linked to losing your license, or societal attitudes change. Society ain’t changing any time soon, so we’re left with big fines or losing license. There’s nothing to enable this offense to lead to license loss,so errr make the fine $300+
At $150, people risk it because the chances of getting caught are minuscule.
Utter crap. Super crap. Mega crap. Ultra crap. Chief Inspector Kay, triple the fine to $500 and people will get the message. More money in government coffers and painful to the wallet. Even the UK has a stiffer fine for driving using a cell phone.
And you lose your license for 30 days beside the $500 fine.That’s why a lot of people don’t use their indicators and pay little attention to the road on hand the phone the other holding the weel. Did i mention some are texting ? Time to get serious.
I agree with you there is some special kinds of idiots on the road and including those coming out Fosters airport on the phone looking east but not what is coming from West and driving out in front of the petroleum trucks.
Great news. How many politicians have you caught selling status?
Only 80 over a month?! I could issue 80 a week, maybe 90 if I include the RCIPS officers driving around using their phones!
I agree but easily thought this number could be had in just a morning shift.
Good. Keep it up RCIPS. Full time. Please address excessive speeding on the bypass in and out of West Bay now too.t.
A blue Honda zoomed by me going 83 mph according to the radar at the roadside by Cayman Water. 83!!!
And the blue spot abusers. They are selfish and infuriating!