Police seek witnesses to pedestrian hit-and-run
(CNS): Officers investigating a hit-and-run at the busy Grand Harbour Roundabout in George Town last Thursday evening are calling for anyone who saw the incident or who may have information to come forward. Police said a pedestrian was knocked down as he crossed the road in the area at about 5:15pm but the vehicle failed to stop.
The injured man was taken to the Cayman Islands Hospital, where he was treated and later released with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Anyone who witnessed the incident and might be able to provide information that could identify the vehicle or the driver is asked to call the Bodden Town Police Station at 947-2220.
Anonymous tips can also be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777, or the website.
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Mr. Mercedes?
There had to be twenty witnesses. C’mon give the police some help.
Meanwhile the police are still no further along, apparently, despite some video footage, from locating the car or driver of a near-fatal hit and run in central GT last year where the elderly victim is still in hospital and will never fully recover from her injuries.
Shameful, the Police must do better!
They find who they want to find.
free money making solution:
bring in private run traffic police who are funded by fines.
cig will makes 10x times as much on fines.
police can then do real work or we can reduce their numbers.
win-win-win.
been driving internationally for 30 years….never seen anything as more dangerous/confusing/idotic as the grand harbour roundabout.
where else in the world wouldyou put traffic barriers between lanes on a roundabout….welcome to wonderland.
Because there is lot of idiot drivers on islands who don’t know how roundabout work!
Including the elderly Americans doing a uturn on Camana bay roundabout.
And yet people still cut into the wrong lane to continue east.
This is getting ridiculous now. All that money spent on the CCTV system and the special number plates we all had to pay so much money for. Then a serious incident at a busy junction and no cameras or number plate readers picked up anything. Why is no one every held accountable for the criminal waste of money on all these things.
In part because the cops do not even understand the common law crime of maladministration. Given where many of them come from they tend to the view that the criminal waste of public funds, and feeding at the trough, is just “business as usual.”
The driver, like thousands of others had almost certainly not paid for his vehicle licence (or his insurance).. Under the new half cooked system the licence disk no longer displays the expiry date so the police have no idea whether it’s up to date. If the new system is ever fully implemented the police will know the status of both the licence and driver’s insurance.
Stupidest roundabout, with some of the stupidest drivers in Cayman.
It’s not as badly used as Butterfield Roundabout, but it’s not far off.
Heading east after passing King’s? Use the two lanes to the left.
Heading east coming from South Sound? Use your indicators. That way traffic flows instead of waiting for mind reading powers to kick in.
NRA, put in a proper crossing.
It’s looking like the roundabout will be redone soon anyway, but it’s an absolute mess. Right now.
“Heading east … use the two lanes to the left”??
Why is that?
If you look at the arrows in the lanes before you cross over at the roundabout, the right lanes has an arrow indicating straight OR right turn to south sound.
I don’t get why people in the right lane are not going straight across, people in the left go to the middle lane, and leaving the inner left in front of Hurley’s for traffic exiting Grand Harbour.
I have seen traffic in the right lane after Kings crossing over into the middle lane. I checked with traffic police and they confirmed that staying in lane as you cross over was correct.
Can someone tell me where we are getting the more risky crossing over into the two left lanes from?
Sorry, you think you should stay right and swerve into the cones? Stay left. In your lane. There are only 2. The third is merging and should be blocked from south sound to hurleys. You can get there from the next left by rbc.
4:07: huh? I think you are misunderstanding: the writer at 8:31 am, with whom I agree, was saying that as you approach the intersection, if you are in the right lane (going past Kings), you should remain in the right lane as you cross over.
There are actually three lanes after the intersection, going east. You are correct—we should not be aiming for the inner Hurley’s lane.
What is happening is that a lot of traffic in the right approach lane (from Kings direction) is swerving over to the middle lane. Thst is an accident waiting to happen.
Keep it simple folks: if you are in the right approach lane, stay in your lane as you cross over. That would allow the left lane to cross over to the middle lane unimpeded—as they also stay in their lane.
If people in the right lane cross over to the middle, they have to watch that they are not competing with the traffic in the left lane, who may also be crossing over and do have a perfect right to assume that is their lane.
All of this misunderstanding makes it a dicey intersection to navigate.
As to the writer who thinks that the right lane crossing over to the right has to wait for traffic crossing over to south south sound from grand Harbour I can tell you I have never had to do that.
The grand Harbour traffic simply follows another rule—do not enter the roundabout if there is already traffic in the roundabout. In addition to another tune—that of giving way to the right.
Houston, Clearly we have a problem at this intersection that traffic department needs to sort out.
4:07 pm: you do know your left from your right, correct? Coming from GT going east, there is only one right and one left lane in the approach to the roundabout.
When you cross over, you stay in the right and take the right lane on the other side—no crossing over into the cones.
The crossing over into the cones, as you put it, would take you to the middle lane, and not the right lane.
Good Lord, draw a diagram and check which hand is left and which is right.
You are the reason there are accidents. You clearly do not know how to use this roundabout.
My comment stating that the person doesn’t know how to use the roundabout was in response to writer at 8:31 am
6:37 pm: correct me if I am wrong: the rules of the roundabout are to stay in your lane as you cross over.
There is no need to swerve into the cones. I cross over everyday and stay in my lane —the right lane—and manage not to hit the cones.
Check out the arrows on the roadway itself. There are two arrows: one pointing straight ahead and the other for turning to the south sound exit. Clearly it was intended for traffic in the right lane to cross over into the right lane.
The traffic police obviously need to do some major public education: the standard rule for all roundabouts is to stay in your lane. The cones are not a good reason for an exception to this standard.
These misconceptions in the public increase the risk of accidents at this busy intersection and it is only going to get worse with all the construction going on in Grand Harbour area.
If you knew how to use the roundabout, it would not be stupid.
I can use a roundabout, thanks for asking.
As for questioning the use of the two left lanes it’s pretty simple if you use your brain.
The two lanes heading east only give way to cars exiting to Grand Harbour. Assuming cars are indicating, if they’re heading east and turning right they’re in the innermost lane that has the cones. That means the two lanes can flow freely. If you’re in the right lane, and you’re set on using the lane with cones, you’re now waiting to give way to vehicles, when you could be merrily on your way. If you’re giving way, there is then a slow concertina of traffic behind you, the ripples of which will slow traffic even more further back.
This is not to mention the cluster caused by vehicles from GH trying to pull across 3 lanes of traffic and sometimes stopping near the coned lane.
It is a stupid roundabout.
7:03 pm: No one should be crisscrossing lanes at intersections — stay in your lane. That is what 8:31 am was saying–I am that person.
Try this:
The inner lane approaching the intersection from GT area past Lions Centre) is the left and the outer one is the right lane.
Both lanes give way to traffic from the right that is approaching or already in the roundabout.
Once there is no traffic approaching from South Sound, then you move across and stay in lane as you do so.
The right lane in the approach from GT moves across into the right lane, whether going straight ahead or intending to turn right into South Sound. There is no risk to the cones.
The left lane should properly cross into the middle lane, unless turning into the Grand Harbour area.
Done.
There should be no crisscrossing over into the middle lane from the right lane. That is what is wrong at the intersection. I see it every day.
It’s too simple. Drivers here can’t comprehend.
Considering the space limitations and the amount of vehicles on the road, not to mention poor drivers, most pedestrian crossings should be made over the roads like the bridges the hotels have made. I’m sure if the private sector and gov work together could make cayman a more pedestrian friendly island.
Although I whole heartedly agree with your suggestion, building additional bridges will simply provide more street furniture for Honda drivers to crash into.
Who cares?
Exactly
Cameras are needed that work . Too many accidents there and many other roundabouts. And stay off the phone and use INDICATORS please. We ain’t no mind readers.
Dash cams will be mandated by law for 2023 because all new cars come with them now so govt said they will be doing so…vet the cash ready for your dash cam if your car is older than atleast 2019~
Just check the cctv cameras and machine readable license plate data we paid millions for.
And if that doesn’t tell the full story check the Gas Boy cards. 😂😂
Ah yes. Official corruption and theft from the Caymanian people on an industrial scale. Lots of evidence. Any arrests? Any prosecutions?
N.W.A. were right.
F&#= the Police!!!
Why has no one been made accountable for this? So many crimes could be solved without input from the public and strong evidence in court
Neither work and the PPM spent millions on it.
Someone got rich on the back of it.
No. They were already rich.
True. They got richer.