Four injured, one critical after Sunday night crash
(CNS): Police are investigating the cause of a two-vehicle crash on Shamrock Road Sunday night that left one person with life-threatening injuries and another with serious injuries. The RCIPS is appealing for information about the crash, which happened at about 10:20pm in the Spotts Newlands Road area involving a white Hyundai minivan with a sole occupant and a blue Ford Sports Trac truck carrying three people.
All four people involved were transported to hospital for treatment. The rear seat passenger of the Ford Sports Trac is believed to have sustained serious and life-threatening injuries, while the driver of the Hyundai, who was extricated from the vehicle by the Cayman Islands Fire Service, is believed to have serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Ford truck and the front seat passenger were treated for non-life-threatening injuries and later released.
Anyone with information about the collision is asked to call the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit on 946-6254 or 949-4222.
Anonymous tips can be provided directly to the RCIPS via the Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777
or via the RCIPS website.
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Yadies keep speeding around the road. I got “over flown not overtook by a fowl in a Mark X going about 60mph on Shedden road of all places!
I honestly think they need several different permanent postings on this road, the LPH and the ETH where police take shifts in monitoring the absolute idiots driving down these roads. How many more accidents will it take before the police do something!?
I’ve had the misfotune to be on ETH between the Kimpton and Cost-U-Less roundabouts this week at 7.45. To say they are death traps is an understatement. Undertaking, crazy overtaking, weaving in and out, speeding, mobile phone users and cars in such a state that a scrap merchant wouldn’t give you tuppence-ha’penny for them.
Get some good traffic cops there and you could fill the traffic court until doomsday. Truly frightening experience.
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.
“Bring in”…SMH
First step is for DVDL to take back all inspections. The so called third party inspections are a joke.
You must be new.
There are people working at the various DVDLs (i know for a fact in BT) that sell these to people. You just give them some money and your car magically passes.
nationalities?….it will tell you alot.
I know, right? Those damn Brits.
Fines don’t stop idiots from speeding or driving recklessly. Impounding their vehicles would.
One month for first offense and one year after that.
How long would the legislation take to be put in place for the RCIP to act on it? I’m guessing years.
And yet, still no God damn cops on the road checking speeds and other infractions.
Who needs cops on the road when we have high tech 1- megapixel, circa 1990s, CCTV cameras on a smattering of light poles across the island? Surely one of these museum pieces caught some evidence?
This makes me genuinely angry. The lives ruined with needless deaths or life changing injuries is staggering.
RCIPS and DVDL need to get serious. I wouldn’t mind a lot of hard roadblocks for a while. Literally, check every vehicle for a couple of hours every time. Make sure the cars are road-worthy and the drivers are fully legal. Yes, this will cause traffic, but so does every serious accident due to crap vehicles and crap drivers being a menace on these roads.
It would take seconds to just check that lights work (including brake), tires are not threadbare, and their frickin windshield isn’t cracked like a conch.
It would entail a lot of tickets, arrests, and vehicles being towed away, but I’m so fed up right now.
I hear abandoned Russian T-90s are going cheap right now. The freight will set you back though and they only do gallons to the mile.
Destroyed Russian tanks look more roadworthy than a lot of ‘inspected’ cars here, comrade.
Its rarely the vehicles, its the drivers that are the problem.
Whilst they are about it, fine or prosecute anyone that passed an unfit vehicle as road worthy.
Without question one of the most dangerous stretches of road you will encounter anywhere. And still nothing is done about it by either successive governments, the police or ultimately the road users themselves given they are ones choosing to drive like lunatics along this stretch. Pathetic really.
Right at the curve is where a 30 mph zone ends going West and 40 mph zone and begins going East. Not that any vehicle sticks to 30 though. This might be a perfect spot for testing new speed cameras.