Police hunt driver after hit-and-run on Smith Road
(CNS): The police are appealing to the public for help tracking down a small dark-coloured car involved in a hit-and-run on Smith Road, George Town, last weekend. A man received non-life-threatening injuries when he was run down just east of the Smith Road Centre on Saturday, 18 December, at around 6:15pm. The car immediately fled the scene, heading east towards Bobby Thompson Way. Officers investigating the incident have not yet traced the car or whoever was driving. The injured victim has since been treated and released from hospital.
Anyone who has information or knows the location of the vehicle involved is asked to call the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit at 649-6254 or the George Town Police Station at 949-4222.
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From what I’ve personally experienced, most people in any given Government department/agency have NO respect for public funds. Worse when budget time is coming and there’s new technology available to be purchased!
With no justification, let’s just get the new, fancy and expensive equipment. We don’t necessarily have to use it!
Case in point – license plate readers!
Government and the Civil Service will never change, they comprise 3 categories : active (very few), reactive (a few more) and inactive 98%.
And yet people have been permitted to build giant concrete walls right up next to the roads instead of building sidewalks. Sidewalks being too emblematic of communism.
Posted a comment some years ago about how a sidewalk was put on one side of the road and not on both sides where this incident happened, only to be ridiculed. Take your life in your hands walking that road.
No insurance, no vehicle licence, no driving licence, driving ban. No police check!!.
In the Brac plenty vehicles with old license plates have faded out that cannot read the numbers on them, and police are so dumb they don’t do anything about it.
Dumb??? Or just don’t care!
Going out on a limb, I would guess that there isn’t current legislation that allows the RCIPS power to cite or otherwise ticket vehicle owners who have cars with old, possibly unreadable license plates.
I know that on the Sister Islands, the new license plates are rolling in slowly, and people are being contacted to come pick up their new ones. I believe it is a somewhat snaillike process.
Small dark car?
Well case solved then
A small, dark-coloured car!! I just saw that car!! We practically have it cornered!
C’mon RCIPS. There must have been witnesses with more information than that.
Very glad the victim wasn’t more injured.
Completely glad the person was not seriously injured.
Why can’t RCIPS recover video footage from 4-way stop light cameras (if, as reported, it fled towards Bobby Thompson Way)?
That’s right. Stoplight cameras have low (to no) proper visibility at night time. Very poor equipment, which has not been addressed over the years.
You are such an awful person. If the police is asking for any info on a vehicle with only these description it is because no other description was given, no CCTV footage in the location of the accident and no witness came forwards as usual. These info can help in case of a neighbors see a small colored dark vehicle with recent body damage, that can lead to an arrest.
Most people in Cayman don’t know anything about police work, you are all ignorant and only bash police on a daily basis however, if in difficult times, you all call police. Make up your mind.
You are right. I could have said it better.
I meant no insult. I KNOW the RCIPS have more information. Either that, or all the money invested in the CCTV is a sham.
We have seen many times in the past where information was held back at the same time the RCIPS asked for help. Sometimes I can understand why that is so.
In a hit-and-run, I would think that the authorities would rush to the company that maintains/monitors the CCTV and RUSH a copy of it to the media. We could all put our internet skills to work and hopefully make a significant contribution toward finding the car and driver.
I meant no insult to the RCIPS. If you knew me, you’d know that I’m almost always in their corner; they do a job that some of us want to pretend is easy and mindless, but it reality sometimes tears a person down. They enjoy seeing the very worst of us. Every day. ALL day long. Oh, joy.
The police don’t know anything about police work
Even if they got the license number, so many of these cars on the road not get transfer when someone buys it so it’s still in the name of the old owner.
Hope the investigation find this nasty driver who leave the injured man and flee the scene and they lock him or her up.
Fine the old owner for illegal sale of a vehicle.
To sell a car you just need the sign-off on the paperwork that you will be selling it. It is the purchaser who has to turn in the paperwork after the sale is concluded.
Agree. If that vehicle is found, whomever the registered owner should be on the hook. If they “sold” it without proper paper, they are still culpable, at least until the person they sold it to is identified and found.
Could the police please explain once and for all how and why it is the expensive machine readable license plates and traffic cameras we invested in are plainly not worth shit? Could they also please explain who has been arrested for the manifest scam that we have all been victims of?
I was just coming here to say the same thing. All this money spent on CCTV cameras and readable number plates and none of it works. Someone needs to be held responsible – but of course they never are. We let the government waste our money with wild abandon.
Half a billion $ annual CIG payroll
Large portions of which goes to foreign nationals who do not give a crap and seem to make it their mission to import more of their brethren to save them from the shit holes they have made of their own countries.
The cameras are of mediocre quality at its best in day light and in the night, I can’t say the proper word otherwise my comment will not be approved by the moderators.
As per the plates readers, I don’t think it was ever put in use.
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Any accountability or even explanation? We paid millions!
The idea was actually a good one but we don’t have the people in place to make it work. As per most of our Gov agencies eg. port, post office, customs, border control….
It’s a private security company that has the contract for street CCTV. And for Glass House security.
By the way.
Why don’t government hire and run internal security officers? After all there are agencies which are responsible for internal affairs.
We don’t have to contract out the cream.
Hire and train 20+ locals internally instead of expensive but cheap (salaries)labor contract.
Perfect job for retiring police officers. The abuse and waste of Government funds to benefit key local business owners is an outrage.