Fatal road accident in Prospect
(CNS): Just two months into 2022, there has been a third fatality on Cayman’s roads. According to an RCIPS report, a male driver of a black Honda died after the car collided with a fence column on Mangrove Avenue in the Prospect area around 1:30pm Saturday. No other vehicles were involved and police believe he was the only person in the car. The Emergency Medical Services and the Cayman Islands Fire Service extracted the driver from the vehicle, but police said that he showed no signs of life at the scene. He was transported to the Cayman Islands Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by the attending doctor.
The driver is the third person, already, to lose his life on the roads in the Cayman Islands so far this year.
The area of the collision on Mangrove Drive was closed until Saturday evening following the accident while the police carried out on-scene investigations, the RCIPS said, and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
Investigators from the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit are asking witnesses to come forward and provide information about how the collision took place. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the unit at 649-6254 or the George Town Police Station at 949-4222.
Anonymous tips can be provided directly to the RCIPS via the Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777, or via the website.
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I now see the govt has marked out 8 speed bumps to be put in…why not logwood way? I been lobying fir them to be put in logwood way from the 90’s?
Realizing some one could die after some one dies. Right now Cayman is doing all it possibly can to limit deaths on the road. Just because they are not doing well does not mean they can do better. This is Cayman. Your only going to get so much competence and the rest is given up to culture. Nothing anyone can do will change this. I drive on the roads knowing full well that at any given time there are many who can and will kill whoever gets in their way on the road with me. This is the best you can do.
#WorldClass
More people dying on the road than covid, yet we really do nothing about it…
These emotional postings have very little to do with the reported facts. No where is it stated that the driver was speeding. The driver did hit a post and was declared dead on the scene. A post mortem should further shed light on the facts. Did he suffer the after effects of a previous injury that contributed to him losing control? People who saw him previous to the accident indicated that he was hit in the head. Let’s wait on the science. Please
If we want to reduce the amount of traffic collisions and car crashes we have, we need to reduce the number of vehicles on our roads and start moving towards comprehensive public transport (rather than the hodge podge of various transport methods we use now and call ‘public transport’). Cayman is too small to be a suburban country of car dependency, and the cost of living too high to make us dependent on an already expensive product (which cars are by themselves, before you take into account all of the extra costs that come alongside having to import and own a car).
There are thousands of jobs that can be done remotely and effectively as the world learned during this pandemic. This would remove thousands of cars from the roads instantly and costs little to nothing to do.
Of course, this is sensible, so it won’t be done here.
This is certainly something that can (and SHOULD) be done as a short term solution but that doesn’t fix the issue of traffic for other everyday activities or large events. The ultimate, and long term solution, is better urban planning, and to start upgrading and implementing a better transportation system across the island that can supplant car travel. It would be better for the economy, the environment, and our health.
What I do know is that: Cayman is overrun with imported, lawless, low lives. It’s downright despicable what is happening here! I am petrified for the future of the good people of these Islands. This madness must stop.
Yea. Too bad most married locals and now you’ve got homegrown hoodlums.
I wondered how someone can collide with a fence pole on a straight residential road then I thought wait:
What if a child is playing or someone is exercising / running on the road there then looses their life too.
I realized something urgent needs to be done in regard to persons allowed to drive on your roads Cayman.
You already answered that first question, inadvertently – the road is straight (I also imagine it’s particularly wide). These are conditions that make it more likely for people to go at higher speeds. The fact that a residential area has roads like that is extremely worrying because it is extremely poor urban design that can (and now has) cost lives amongst other damages.
It’s called speeding. I live in the area and they are always speeding.
If you design a road like a highway, it’ll be used like one.
Cayman please understand “Speed Kills”. It’s not just a cliché, it’s a bloody fact.
People driving carefully, obeying the speed limits, and paying attention to your mental state before and during your journey, may help to save a life including your own.
So do cellphones.
There was an altercation at the location and he was hit in the head – hard – minutes before the collision according to witnesses (I live on Mangrove). I understand the police are aware but just putting it out there because there’s more to this than meets the eye. What if injuries caused him to lose control? Hope this is thoroughly investigated. Sincere condolences to his family and friends.
27 @ 4:33pm – Good point. The blow to his head may have actually been fatal, and the car accident happened as a result. Hope they investigate and do a PM. Hope witnesses speak up!
In the UK excessive speed is listed as a contributory factor in just 7% of RTAs. Slavishly following an arbitrary number has little to do with safe driving especially on some of our roads where the limits are absurdly low, and the conditions generally excellent. The problem in Cayman is a sizable proportion of drivers who are unsafe AT ANY SPEED and who should not have licenses.
This is so true. We know in general who the worst drivers are in Cayman. I was doing the speed limit in the left lane on the Esterley Tibbetts highway after exiting the roundabout at ALThompsons this morning, and this taxi driver in a white van rode my rear end so close that I could not see his license plate. He was so impatient he overtook me quite dangerously when he got the opportunity. Mind you there was this slowpoke in the right lane holding up traffic too. Where are the signs on these dual carriageways that say the left lane is the slow lane etc?
I drove home from work tonight around 8 p.m. Heading into West Bay. Was passed just past Cost u less. The speed indicating sign clocked the passing vehicle @ 92mph. No enforcement. The bypasses are nothing more than racetracks. Not sure what its going to take for Traffic to step up their game. 2 weeks ago walking with the wife towards the turtle farm. An individual was headed towards town. All windows completely blacked out. A Traffic cop was just crossing the TF as well. The individual driving the car pulled into TF parking lot knowing full well he/she was illegally tinted trying to avoid the Traffic Cop , but they still crossed each other. Traffic Cop did nothing and 2 minutes later the tinted vehicle left TF parking lot. Absolutely no enforcement. We are on pace for 12 Traffic fatalities this year. Hopefully they do not kill an innocent bystander due to police negligence. Hang your head RCIPS…there is really nothing Royal about your occupation.
How are the majority of them going to be Royal, when they are imported illiterate gardeners and common labourers. Only in the Cayman Islands could this happen. They are not capable of writing a proper statement.
Literacy rate is terrible for sure.
Its the same on Spotts straight.
Only reason I left Prospect was Marina, Mahogany and Mangrove being used as race tracks. My old house was hit at least twice a year by retarded Jamaican drivers.
Nothing will ever be done with these drivers as the majority of the police are from the same country. The way these idiots drive on the roads all day and night is really pathetic; Ray Charles could see the flagrant traffic violations yet the RCIP can not. Says a lot for our leaders and the Governor since he is the one in charge of the police. With the new high tech plate/sticker system that some genius thought up,how do you know if the registration and inspection is up to date without actually checking the log book?
At least twice? Don’t you know how many times?
There’s no need to say retarded. Literally no need. We all know
It’s not the police fault that people drive carelessly.
When is it going to end?
Unfortunately, it ended for this one today…. then there will be another… and another…
Not their fault, yes, but the lack of actual enforcement is their fault.
There is this little thing call PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Try it we might all like it.
The police are useless, Yes, but my God, stop being so stupid.
Also might help for the laws to be changed to allow judges to impose harsher sentences, especially re: fines, loss of driving privileges and imprisonment. And then the judges need to actually impose those sentences.
The lack of actual testing these drivers is the issue. I was at the inspection facility once and the Filipino lady in front couldn’t even communicate to the inspector.
Don’t forget, for years one could illegally buy a drivers license from an employee of the DVDL. This helps to explain why so many donkeys are “driving” on our roads.
I have said it before. Please make all Caymanians take a UK standard driving test now. Do not let them back on the road until they pass. Traffic will half for a while, but roads will be safer when it fills up again.
It’s mainly the Jamaicans and Americans that can’t drive.
I would love to see were you got that statistic.
Check the road fatalities in Jamaica every year..
Check the first two road fatalities in Cayman this year – Jamaicans! Many of them drive here like they do there!
We are the backbone of the workforce, you people don’t appreciate or respect us!
yea brethren! We run this island now
You earn appreciation and respect son.
Just go to traffic court and watch.
It’s not Americans fault. They aren’t really here for the last 2 years. But its always a jam speeding by me and unsafely overtaking on blind turns. You can tell because they tend to have a flag on their rear view mirror or a sticker.
This will do little to stop the blatant disregard for traffic laws because the criminal drivers know enforcement is a joke.
That would also weed out the influential elderly Caymanians, especially here on the Brac, which is the primary reason it won’t be done.
I had occasion to drive in Grand Cayman two weeks ago; I have done so many times in the past without difficulty. This time seemed like an all-day game of chicken, with me in the small rental car. It wasn’t the case a year ago. Things were laid back and easy. What has changed?
Idiot, what makes you believe it’s Caymanians that are the main ones ending up in these accidents???
Let me guess, when you hear “38yr old make from George Town” you automatically believe they are local?!
We here is the fact. If you are from here, or arrived yesterday, the RCIP classify you the same way “…from GT/BT” etc.
Always in a Honda.
Or BMW
Or Audi
As a person who lives in Red Bay prospect area, I’d really like to see some officers Patrolling the speed limits here. They cruise as fast as possible. Down residential streets and through shamrock road. When is it going to end?
Not gonna happen. Speed limits and laws mean nothing as long as you’re a bobo.
I think you mean a Bozo!
Never going to end, cops would rather give tickets to reasonably law abiding citizens along West Road who apologize for their speed rather than mouthy local drivers who pose a potential threat to unarmed cops.
Bobo protection clause in full effect
Mahogany Way has speed bumps but there are none on Mangrove. So one street has speed management and the next one over is a freeway. Smart….
It’ll end when an MLA’s family member is wiped out. Because currently they don’t care enough as it doesn’t affect them.
Where is Sir Alden since he is the MP for Red Bay? Oh maybe he is sitting under one of the pretty cabana’s at his election park!
11.31 you should ask where is Sabrina. As you correctly point out, Sir Alden is the representative for Red Bay. Mangrove Ave is in the Prospect constituency.
Well at least Sabrina had the decency to send out a statement on her IG, FB and WhatsApp groups regarding the accident in Prospect giving her sympathy which looks good in my eyes.
Speeding was also a hot topic discussion last week at her Spotts Dock meeting where she had plenty members from the RCIPS senior command present.
anyway!!!!! ….boooo boooo hissss
OK Sir Alden, where are you Sabrina? Oh my goodness she is holding meetings and dealing with her constituents, plus she is a busy member of cabinet.
But poor Sir Alden guess you would not know that part of meeting with your constituents since you are always busy with yourself.
Are you happy now old buddy?
Busy hahahaha
Lol. That must be it. He’s probably still stuck under it since it’s never been cleaned up after it collapsed.
And it wont be till the next election rolls around!
Sad for his constituents children.
I would like them to enforce the stop signs, hell what used to be a slow go through the stop sign is now a full speed ahead because the driver is in a rush!