28 crashes reported over last weekend
(CNS): The RCIPS dealt with more than two dozen crashes and issued more than fifty road tickets for speeding and tint, and prosecuted two people for drinking and driving in the third and busiest weekend so far of the road safety campaign, Winter Guardian. One of this weekend’s 28 road collisions involved a pedestrian on Smith Road who received serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
With local drivers showing no sign of improving their general standards, the police are now urging people to be patient on the roads to avoid major smashes.
“We know the lead up to Christmas can be a busy time,” said Head of Traffic and Roads Policing Unit, Dwayne Jones. “With only a few days to go and last minute Christmas preparations to organise, we want to stress to the community to please be patient and drive carefully on the roads. We want to see everyone arrive home safely for Christmas.”
Superintendent Brad Ebanks said the increased enforcement by his officers would continue over the holidays.
“No one likes receiving a ticket, particularly at Christmas, but the police have an important role to play in making our roads safer for all road users, and our enforcement efforts help send a clear message to those motorists that choose to break the law,” he warned.
“We will continue our multi-faceted approach with increased police enforcement and visibility in the lead up to Christmas and through to the New Year, not only on the roads but also within the community and commercial establishments, to help keep the Cayman Islands safe over the festive season.”
Listen to safety messages from Governor Martyn Roper and the Deputy Governor Franz Manderson urging drivers not speed or drink and drive:
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In relying to this person, “Anonymous says:
23/12/2021 at 7:49 am
Just yesterday I was doing the speed limit, in the outside lane, and was tailgated by a weaving dump truck with missing headlights. Truly a joy to drive here.”
What you are doing is “lane hogging”, and I once saw a quote from a Police Officer that said, “treat the outside lane like a toilet, do your business (overtaking) and then get off and back in the left hand lane.”
Lane hogging encourages people to overtake on the inside.
After the latest corruption in the DVLA, with Heavy Goods Vehicle licences being handed out without testing, and seeing the way HGV’s drive around this island, it seems obvious he 2 are connected.
Perhaps a petition to retest all active HGV licence holders is needed, as there is no way any of the Dump truck drivers passed the test.
I’ve even seen a dump truck double parked blocking all traffic so the driver could go and have lunch.
Let’s retest all of them as we cannot rely on the DVLA to have tested these drivers.
Trust and confidence in the DVLA has gone.
Coming soon. The Christmas Crush and New Years Crashes. Be safe. Stay off the roads and let them crash into each other.
I ride a motorbike. I see so many effwits on their phone. Seriously, it’s every journey, at least several. It goes from the blatant phone to the ear, the ones texting over the top of their steering wheel, all the way to the downwards glancing idiots, and even worse, the dickheads who think holding a phone on speaker makes it a hands free device.
This is why people crash. There’s already a load of terrible drivers, this compounds it.
The mind shift drivers have adopted is startling, – I’ve never seen anything like it before. Within the past two weeks I’ve seen a car driving against traffic on the wrong side of dual carriageway going to the Caymana Bay roundabout; the other on the wrong side of the road entering a major roundabout against traffic, and just today, a car entering a roundabout after me but deciding he wanted to be in my lane (inside) going around a roundabout, accelerating and trying to force me against the roundabout curb stones to occupy the lane I was in so he could make the ALT turn off earlier. It really is f-ing mental out there, be safe, / another rider
The shady pool car business needs to end. If I see another car rental business punting 10 year old Honda Fits I’m going to punch someone.
They usually have some idiotic name thought up by an amoebas. Chintzy Rental, or Mad Good Value Rentacar, or something original like Jose Car Rental.
I’m 99% sure they rent to anyone, with or without a license, and turn a blind eye to anyone who ‘borrows’ the car from the rentee.
It’s like the construction companies called “start to finish” who walk off the job half way through or “neat and fine” who make a job site look like Baghdad within minutes of their arrival
Need to record where the people involved in all these crashes learned to drive and if there is a common factor make them all take proper European standard driving tests at renewal.
Police only make their quotas off the easy pickings, harried housewives going 10 mph over at 3pm, people rolling through stop signs- that should actually be give way signs, and the like.
Walk down the Esterly Tibbets from Batabano to the Kimpton any night of the week between 6:30 – 8PM and see cars racing in excess of 85mph. When I asked the police why this was allowed to happen–the answer “they know thats when shift change is” (no word of a lie)
My response was you are the police, you have the element of surpise on your side—shake your hours up, god knows you’d make better quotas and get these menaces off the road.
Also if one more jackass decides to go round the outside lane at the Butterfield Roundabout…I’m going through them. Cops could be tagging idiots there daily….but do not.
The police have a duty of care to the public when it comes to public safety. when they ask drivers that follow the rules to be patient with the bad, careless and negligent drivers instead of enforcing the road laws it seem a bit lacking. The only way to make the roads safer would be to unfortunately, relentlessly ticket the people into compliance.
“With local drivers showing no sign of improving their general standards, the police are now urging people to be patient on the roads to avoid major smashes. “
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RCIPS’s campaign against bad driving will never work as long as the Licensing Department doesn’t have more stringent regulations for obtaining a license.
Importing labor from 3rd world countries brings that lawlessness mentality to Cayman. It has to be re-educated here. And strict enforcement has to be implemented.
What about those selfish people driving with high beam lights on !
Or no lights at all.
Usually because they are stupid.. or their low beams do not work and they are to cheap to replace them.
I have a mirror set up in the car at the back window that is set up to reflect high beams back at in the idiots eyes.
You find them beeping and cruising you, but a couple get it and turn them down.
I had assumed that you can’t turn the high beams off Honda Accords, just like they have no indicators/signals.
and if you have the tailgaters at night, turn off your lights and break hard at the same time, they will just see the brake lights and think they the normal running lights, and then you are in the money, and you et to take off another honda Accord of the roads.
If the police refuse to do their job, they obviously want the public to do it
Getting people for tint when pulled over can’t be argued, and the evidence is present. Evidence for a moving violation is open to far more dispute. I’d be surprised if most people getting caught for tint weren’t actually pulled over for something else.
Driving in Cayman is like bumper cars on steroids. Between the dump trucks that think they’re NASCAR drivers to idiots on their cell phones or texting it makes COVID look pretty timid.
Indicators? What are they?
Sig. Many Drivers on Cayman’s Roads
Recognizing theirs doesn’t necessarily means recognizing yours. It is called Power.
The reason being is a simple fact. You guys don’t know how to drive period or too many drunks on the road.
Sorry
A few years ago when one Government was beating-up its collective gums about traffic woes, I wrote to a sitting MP with a number of suggestions – including better road design (e.g. incorrectly-cambered roundabouts), road markings, lighting and REGULATED driver training. I suggested proper driver schools with certified instructors.
Of late I’ve seen at least 3 Driving Schools on the roads. Are any of these properly regulated to confirm that they’re qualified to teach people to drive or are they like the new janitorial services and car-rentals scam?? Anyone noticed those? I know of one of those driving schools which recently got a WP for an instructor from Jamaica!!
Recently I sent my concerns and suggestions again to a PACT associate to pass on to the “powers”. Let’s see what will happen.
Nowt!!
The incredible number of incredibly inept drivers on our roads can only be explained if there is in fact more than one case of a civil servant allowing drivers on our roads without being tested, as occurred in the recent case where a lady was jailed for this offence.
And you folks thought Covid was the pandemic!
Pandemic of the automotivated
Wow 50 tickets, that works out to approximately 2 tickets per officer per shift, great work!!
Just yesterday I was doing the speed limit, in the outside lane, and was tailgated by a weaving dump truck with missing headlights. Truly a joy to drive here.
If you want to do the speed limit you should move over to the slow lane.
Therein lies the problem! There is no slow Lane – 40mph in both lanes.
If you’re doing less than 40mph then move over to near side and allow overtaking to your offside.
Simples!
The outside lane is an overtaking lane ONLY no matter the speed limit. Overtaking on the inside lane is against the rules of the road and dangerous–, not that anyone cares.
I think you are all on the same page re the lanes. What some are calling the “outside lane” and others the “slow lane” or “nearside” even “inside” are the same leftmost lane. Relax.
Wrong
Cayman Road code says use right lane to overtake then move back left. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing the limit you’re still supposed to move over!
Move over anyway irrespective of your speed. Dems da rules
Wrong. Move over. “Use the right-hand lane for overtaking or turning right. As soon as
practicable after overtaking, you are to move back to the left lane.”
https://www.dvdl.gov.ky/documents/Road-Code-2012-1-2021-02-25-02-10-56.pdf
Take the tag number down and call 911. It works, I do it regularly now and the RCIPS calls the employers and reports the truck driver. Enough reports and they are fired.
If it has plates that are visible!
But why does the RCIPS never prosecute the truck drivers? A loss of license would discourage others, keep us all safer, and get them fired sooner!
The problem is the fact that we still allow individuals to transfer their home country license to that of a Cayman license, after only doing the written test (assuming they didn’t get “helped” by the convicted x-employee of DVDL).
I listened to a representative of the RCIP, a few days ago on a local podcast show. Her comments about the inconvenience of doing away with the Geneva Transfer was incorrect.
Like her, most people are under the belief that the Geneva Transfer is reciprocal. That is, holders of a Cayman license can go to Other countries and transfer their license to that countries license.
They can’t. ONLY if those countries have ratified their local law to recognize the Geneva Convention on Road Signs….most have not.
Up until only 2-3 months ago, Caymanians couldn’t even transfer their d/l to that of a UK d/l.
Driving a rental in the USA, Canada and most EU countries isn’t a problem, try transferring your license to theirs; it won’t happen.
So, after getting that clear, here is the root of our problem on Cayman roads.
We have people driving on our roads that lack the ability to understand the concept of waiting in line in a civilized manner, yet we allow them to get on the road.
We build roundabouts of different sizes and shapes, drop them down anywhere (with roads entering the roundabout only feet apart from each other).
Maybe the insurance industry association should publish data on all their claims (just keep it general) that would be telling.
Recognizing theirs doesn’t necessarily means recognizing yours. It is called Power.
The reason being is a simple fact. You guys don’t know how to drive period or too many drunks on the road.
Sorry
10:11, you miss the point that the author of 6:07 was making. In typical fashion, your arrogance couldn’t allow you to properly assess.
“Up until only 2-3 months ago, Caymanians couldn’t even transfer their d/l to that of a UK d/l.” quite rightly! I shudder at the thought of most of my Caymanian friends being allowed to drive in the UK.
I’m not sure how they’d cope entering the M60 at 70MPH at rush hour. Probably cause a pile up.
Third World joke
That’s a crash every 1 hour 45 mins over a full 48 hr period –
My new wheeze (if I can get Mr Myles in on it) is going to be looking for accidents with artificially inflated insurance valuations to claim against. Not so sure Mr Myles ? – with an average car cost at around $20,000 that’s over half a mil every weekend !
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why is tint still a problem?
the only logical explanation is a lack of enforcement by the police and vehicle licensing
And why the hell are they enforcing illegal tint on the roads? Sure, continue when you come across it, but they could deal with 90% of the tiny problem in a weekend just walking around church and grocery store parking lots. Sitting targets just waiting for a ticket. And if they do not have the technology for automatic ticketing and efficient online payment of fines, with fines increasing as the same vehicle gets ticketed again and again then those responsible should immediately be fired. Our police and civil service are a joke. Their standards are far below the expectations of any modern functioning society, and their failure to adopt readily available and effective technology, is an embarrassment. They waste the public’s money, and achieve next to nothing.
Getting people for tint when pulled over can’t be argued, and the evidence is present. Evidence for a moving violation is open to far more dispute. I’d be surprised if most people getting caught for tint weren’t actually pulled over for something else.
90% of drivers here wouldn’t pass a U.K. driving test, even with a bribe.
but cayman still is accepting jamaican liscense?????
will wait for answers.
An examiner almost failed our teen for hesitating for a Mississippi at a traffic circle as multiple orbiting speeders failed to signal their exit…they could just as easily continued all the way around (and often do), even from the outermost lane.
And most cars on the roads would never pass a UK inspection. Perfect storm for deaths on the roads.
So there are a bunch of people driving around Cayman who paid bribes to get their licenses, and if I understand it, the RCIP have not arrested any of them and immigration has not deported any of them?
RCIP these problems are largely of your making!
Driving here is the worst ive seen anywhere
I once witnessed a police officer (who happened to be from another island) physically removing unlawful tint from a vehicle at a roadblock. He apologized to the driver and said he had to do it. I was happy to see the action, and the professionalism and tact in the enforcement of the law.
I then saw the police officer hand the driver a business card for a tinting company who could reapply the tint. It was plain there was a relationship between the officer and the tinting company.
The corruption is real, and although largely imported, it is mainstream.
Tell the racer boys, suicide passers, and out to lunch folks to stop being themselves and job done right? Wrong! Law enforcement is the training they need to change. Keep it up until it is reasonably safe to drive here again and maybe gain some lost respect for yourselves.
Driving here is an absolute joke – I’ve had three near misses in the last couple of days, due to idiots who can’t use roundabouts or fail to give way at junctions.
The police needs to stop it’s soft targeting/ income generating of speeders and focus on prosecuting careless and reckless drivers.
I observed seven cars exiting the roundabout into Camana Bay Foster’s yesterday and only one used their indicator. Ridiculous.
Yup. I see it daily too. But the highly trained and expensive robust law enforcers we pay – they don’t see nuttin.
To be honest if you’re in the correct lane, it usually doesn’t matter… if. In any event at same roundabout yesterday I witnessed a Honda fit in the right lane, indicate right and turn left taking the first exit! I mean what can you say, these people are just retarded.