Driver critical after single-car crash in Bodden Town
(CNS): A 43-year-old man is in critical condition in hospital after being trapped in a burning vehicle that crashed on Shamrock Road, near Valley Drive in Bodden Town, just before midnight yesterday. The Cayman Islands Fire Service extricated the injured man, who was taken to the Cayman Islands Hospital with a serious head wound and burns to the face and body. On arriving at the hospital, he was assessed as being in a critical condition and underwent surgery early this morning.
No other car was believed to have been involved and initial reports show that the vehicle was travelling east along Shamrock Road towards Bodden Town when it veered to the other side of the road and overturned, coming to a stop in bushes on the side of the road.
The crash is being investigated by the police, and anyone with information is encouraged to call the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit at 649-6254 or the Bodden Town Police Station 947-2220.
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Population going up by the day, also the dumpg and roads getting more conjusted and dangerous, sad,very sad indeed.
What’s a dumpg ?
The thing that was conjusted.
Shamrock Road is like a race track every night. I can hear the cars/bikes coming from spotts straight in one direction and Hurleys roundabout the other nightly. Police need to step up their patrols in this area between 5pm and 1am every day, not once. Idiots also need to slow down.
The truth is that every two lane thoroughfare here is a race to reach the destination or roundabouts, and it’s a not just the Honda owners and it’s not just the locals or anyone that may appear local.
There are many many drivers of luxury SUVs, lifted pickup trucks, Jeeps-many Jeeps that aren’t local, who violate the country’s traffic laws on a daily basis.
Driving here is the equivalent of swimming in chummed waters with Great White Sharks.
Adjust.
Same along South Sound at night – it’s like a race track. Why no CCTV or speed cameras???
I saw this accident from my balcony, at least heard the breaks, saw the lights spin out, the car then flip and heard the impact. I have one question, why did it take the ambulance almost 15 minutes to arrive on the scene? and when they arrived everyone was moving so slow, no sense of urgency, was the person taking by a citizen to the hospital? is that way the ambulance and police took forever to get to the scene?
You can’t seriously be complaining about a 15 minute turnaround …call has to come in and ambulance dispatched and drive from either EE or GT to near Beach Bay… heck I commend them for reaching in 15 minutes… a big thank you !! Get real ..
Yes you can. In the uk it would be 2 minutes maximum always
rubbish!
“NHS England figures show average response time in October (2021) for ambulances in England dealing with Category 1 cases – defined as calls from people with life-threatening illnesses or injuries – was nine minutes and 20 seconds.
It is the longest average response time since monthly records began in August 2007.”
https://inews.co.uk/nhs/nhs-ambulance-waiting-times-life-threatening
Absolute garbage! More like 10 minutes average; less in big cities, far more in the countryside like 30 minutes+
In a country with multimillion developments, the emergency response services should be equivalent to protect the country.
Protect the country? Round up the politicians
Did you call the ambulance? Maybe, if you all just watched from your balconies no one called! And yes they do seem to move slowly, and carefully and deliberately that way nothing is missed and fewer mistakes are made. In any event 15 minutes is pretty good IMO.
There are only 2 ambulances on island….. and they also do transports for people on hospital beds. The real issue is the population growing and nothing to address infrastructure including having enough ambulances for the island.
Did you call 911?
12:41; Great job rendering assistance for 15mins. Surprised you didn’t stand there and film it on your iPhone instead?
Small island with a large drinking problem.
A.J it doesn’t necessarily mean he was drinking, he could have been coming from work and was very tired. I remember coming from college one night, it was probably after 10 but having worked all day and headed straight to double classes, I was very tired and sleepy. I put the windows down and would sometimes just pull off the road for a few minutes to clear my head. I remember passing by the Fire Station and thinking I’m five minutes away from home. The next thing I remember was waking up about a foot from a light pole on the opposite side of the road. I realized it had been about a minute after passing the Fire Station I had let my guard down because I wasn’t far from home and had fallen asleep. I am made to understand if you fall asleep at the wheel you feet becomes heavy, placing more weight on the accelerator. And no, I don’t drink.
If you Google the driver, he has multiple court mentions for driving offenses, including driving whilst disqualified, refusing to provide a specimen, driving with no insurance.
The only tiredness here is from members of the public who are tired of the number of drivers on the road who shouldn’t be anywhere near a set of car keys.
Sad
Nahhh. Somalia holds the record for that, but they drive camels.
Surely we must hold the world record for this type of accidents.
Fact. 58 times higher accident rate in cayman per 100,000 population than the uk. All because caymanians never had to take a European standard driving test.
8:51, The downward spiral in driving standards began after Ivan when our insurance companies re-sold all their written-off vehicles (90% of all vehicles in Cayman) to the imported labor and anyone else who wanted a Mercedes or BMW for 5k.
They then disbanded our RCIPS Traffic Dept.
Traffic Laws other DUI or Speeding are ignored by the RCIPs.
Those of the facts of why the roads are the way they are Bobo.
Who you calling Caymanian?