West Bay man killed after crashing car into wall
(CNS): A 23-year-old man from West Bay died in the early hours of Saturday morning after the green Honda Fit he was driving smashed into a wall on Eastern Avenue close to Watlers Drive. Police were called to the scene of the single-vehicle crash at around 1:30am. The car was travelling westbound on Eastern Avenue when it apparently left the road and collided with the wall along the roadside. The driver was unresponsive at the scene but his passenger, although seriously injured, was still alive.
They were both taken to hospital, where the driver was pronounced dead. The passenger was admitted to critical care, where the individual remains in a serious but stable condition.
The roadway in the area was temporarily closed as the scene was processed, but has now been reopened. This is the thirteenth fatal road collision this year and the driver is the fourteenth person to lose their life on Cayman Roads in 2022, one of the worst years on record for fatal and serious road accidents
The matter is currently under investigation by the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit (TRPU). Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has any other information is asked to contact the George Town Police Station at 949-4222, or the TRPU at 649-6254. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or the website.
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Everyone blaming Honda’s. I drove a Honda for years without so much as a scratch but then again i never filled my veins with liquor and got behind the wheel.
The dumbest comment. Never say never. Not all cars are defective.
The issue with these Hondas is located between the seat and the steering wheel and gas pedal.
Exactly, the drivers need a recall along with the cars.
RIP all those who have died. A quick search through CNS records for 2022… couple missing I think. Make of it what you will.
6-Jan-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/01/early-morning-road-crash-claims-first-life-of-2022/
26-Feb-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/02/fatal-road-accident-in-prospect/
31-Mar-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/03/fifth-road-victim-of-year-dies-in-hospital/
4-Apr-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/04/baby-and-father-killed-after-crashing-into-wall/
26-May-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/05/at-least-one-killed-in-early-morning-road-crash/
15-Jun-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/06/woman-killed-in-crash-on-cayman-brac/
19-Jun-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/06/elderly-woman-dies-five-days-after-crash/
1-Aug-22 Kia https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/08/mother-of-bride-killed-in-single-vehicle-crash/
8-Aug-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/08/crash-claims-the-life-of-12th-road-victim-in-2022/
21-Oct-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/10/driver-killed-in-crash-on-queens-highway/
10-Dec-22 Honda https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/12/west-bay-man-killed-after-crashing-car-into-wall/
Thank you. Your search is appreciated.
Sadly, Many More to Come!!
How many investigations are finished and reports available? Too many Hondas involved not to raise some questions.
Who are the participants of a crash investigation in Cayman? Are all three groups of people always present: law enforcement officers, insurance company agents, and independent accident investigators?
An often-overlooked cause of motor vehicle accidents is auto defects and equipment malfunctions. Not only do faulty car parts cause crashes, but they can also result in severe injury or death, even from minor impacts.
Often the defective vehicle and vehicle parts not being identified as the cause of bodily injury or death.
* Seatbacks are one of the most common failures in vehicle safety equipment. A seatback is designed to stabilize the occupant’s torso and back when a collision occurs, even at highway speeds. If the seatbacks, including the back seats, collapse backward in a crash, this can be from a defect within the seat. This can be overlooked because first responders may move the seat to extricate the occupant.
*Faulty Gas Tanks Causing Fires and Explosions. there are many cases of occupants that survive the initial accident but are engulfed in flames from a faulty fuel system that leaks gasoline on hot engine parts.
*Tires are another vehicle safety issue that can cause injury or death.
The list can go on..
“One vital piece of evidence in newer cars is the “black box.” This is similar to the black box that you hear that crews are searching for after a plane crash. The “black box” is called an electronic control module (ECM) by industry insiders. Depending on the vehicle, the black box will have information about speed, seat belt use, acceleration, braking, and airbag activation”.
Which completely misses the point that if that is all true then it’s also true everywhere else in the world like Japan, Europe and North America where accidents are properly investigated and Hondas are not involved in anything like the proportion of RTA’s and fatal RTA’s that they are here. Before a vehicle safety fault can kill you first of all you have to drive it into the scenery or wrap it around something hard, which is about the only thing drivers here seem to be any good at.
Oh please stop with this. you are a broken record. The majority are Hondas on our road which are usually driven by inconsiderate a holes. The problem lies with lack of police on our roads to stop these dangerous uneducated drivers.
So so true! Didn’t see any road blocks this pass weekend!
Here’s an idea Honda drivers. Don’t smash your car into things that don’t move, fit decent tires not crappy Chinese remoulds and then you won’t have to find out if your seatback or fuel tank can’t survive an impact. It’s not hard. Stop driving like idiots. It’s not a race car no matter how big your exhaust is, it’s a cheap shopping trolley.
So let me make sure I understand you correctly. you are claiming that the most popular car on the Island is involved in more RTI and RTCs than others?
Please post your details so we can vote you in next election Einstein.
Would love to know the nationality of the drivers. My guess says Jamaican (for the same reason as the Honda stats) but I bet you won’t blame them for the chaos if it’s true.
So which is it? Jamaicans or Hondas? because i’m certain the stats line up.
They aren’t claiming anything crappy Honda driver. Try reading, “make of it what you will”. Hondas appear to account for over 90% of our fatal crashes but they certainly don’t make up 90% of the cars on the road, not even close.
i think there are more Hondas on the road than other cars, thats the reason of so many Honda accidents. Every Tom,Dick and Harry are importing them cheap from Japan, plus drinking liquor and speeding. and
So why is there no reporting on the single-vehicle accident that had a blue small car leaving the engine behind and then up rooting a palm tree along Shamrock road in lower Valley on Thursday night/early Friday morning?
No one hurt?
Accidents without injuries don’t get the same attention. There was a black car that jumped the median at the Governor’s Harbour roundabout and hit a CUC pole on the sidewalk in front of the hotel under construction.
Just take a drive around at 6 am on a Saturday or Sunday morning and you will see the carnage from the night before.
At what point do Caymanians admit that our driver training and test are a COMPLETE JOKE? Every single day I see multiple instances of driving so incompetent it would be an instant FAIL on a standard UK/European driving test. I’m not even talking about the speeders, most of whom wouldn’t even be speeding anywhere with appropriate limits.
Each country, state, city and town claim they have the worst drivers.
yeah but Cayman wins
try to drive in Miami
just did. it was fine.
Our accident stats are between 10 and 20 times worse than the UK! (Depending which measure you use) Now factor in our excellent weather, excellent roads and low speed limits and you should be able to see we have a huge problem. You could drive for 6 months in the UK and never see an accident, you see one almost every day here. Who are you trying to kid?
Always the Driver’s fault? Don’t judge drivers so quickly.
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🚙Honda Recall for Stall Risk Caused by Defective Fuel Pumps
🚙Honda Fit and Fiat 500 Rank Worst in Crash Test Performance
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Those are factors that might lead to more serious injuries in a crash, but none of them is going to contribute to causing a crash of this kind
Are you an expert?
You don’t need to be to read that list and come to the same conclusion but as it happens I am and 11:46 is right.
And the role of the wall must not be discounted either when it comes to acting as an apologist for dangerous drivers.
a safe road must have a safety shoulder
utter garbage. it’s a 25 for gods sake. if you can’t keep your car ON THE ROAD in a 25 you shouldn’t be driving!
Nearly every modern car has had multiple recalls. The drivers are the problem here, not the cars.
Fit For the Road? Honda Recall on the Fit.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/consumer-protection/for-for-the-road-honda-recall-on-its-fit-cars/
Vehicles throughout Cayman are safe and roadworthy except those police choose to turn a blind eye to.
its not the car its the driver, every time.
try jogging on our roads I dare you.
It’s not the car maker or model. ITS CALLED “WHATS UP” reading, texting, sending or recording a massage…
Yes! Everyday I look at the driver next to me and they are looking at their phone!!! Every.single.one! One guy this morning was looking down at his phone while driving IN a round about!! I see why there are so many accidents!!
2.02pm You looking at them, they looking at phones. So none of you looking at the road. Wow.
you do know your should look at other cars while driving? right?
Anyone know and can share what caused the car the Caymanian doctor was driving thid year to crash and erupt in fire?
Was it her that crashed the car or the vehicle just malfunctioned and caused the steering to invert?
May Peace be unto the family too.
I don’t know but it would be a pretty safe bet driver error caused the crash and the crash caused the fire. Statistically, mechanical failure only contributes to 10% of vehicle crashes and the vast majority of those are due to a lack of proper maintenance rather than any inherent issue with the design or manufacture of the car.
I don’t know what caused it, like most crashes sadly and probably human error, but as an engineer I can absolutely guarantee that the steering did not invert, it’s just not possible sorry.
I want to believe it was not this particular drivers’ fault.
Like you and the other commenters said, it was more likely
‘Human error’ that caused the crash.
But if the driver was not intoxicated or had any medical surprises, then a part failure could have caused the driver to lose control.
Now what caused a part to failure could be from poorly installed parts or poor workmanship. I know these causes are rare.
We know that in the past some electric car batteries from companies like ‘Tesla’ and ‘Chevrolet’ caused fires without the vehicle
crashing.
“Some na done mek yet.”
The probability of drunk driving is still among the top causes
for vehicular accidents.
In this Doctors’ case, we only know the vehicle crashed and erupted into fire, not anything about if the driver caused the crash. It is with understanding that further information has been kept under wraps in respect to the family in mourning.
Honda Fit again? This Honda model has so many known issues. Is Anyone checking for manufacturing defects?
it’s operator error everytime. I have a fit and never once crashed it in 15 years.
never say never. Not all cars have manufacturing defects. There were 24 NHTSA safety recalls.
Known issues? are you for real? the known issues are it’s an ultra reliable, economical hatchback. As a result, many are brought over from Japan. What happens is by the sheer number of them on the roads, some are driven well by competent owners, others end up being driven by people who have a lack of judgment, skill, and common sense.
The cars are fine. They’re well built, but as they’re Japanese, they have fewer safety features than equivalent Euro and N American models. That said, you drive any vehicle into a solid object, physics takes over and punishes those in particular who aren’t wearing seatbelts.
It’s not the car. It’s always the driver here.
It’s no coincidence. The Govt needs to ban all Japanese tin-cans that don’t meet modern safety standards.
And before the Fit army pile in, I appreciate that they are cheap and reliable, but isn’t your life worth more than a cheap car?
Honda fit menace again.
Tragic. Slow down. I see too many crazy speeders too often.
doesn’t mean the one(s) that crashed was speeding
pretty obvious they were though
do you argue just to argue 8:56?
On a per capita basis we must be close to the world record for single car crashes, the standard of driving here is appalling.
So is the standard of policing traffic.
Eastern Ave more dangerous than Le Mans.
the honda fit meance once again ! this is the second fatal crash in this area in the last 3 months. please slow down out there and don’t drive when drunk and/or high.
Nothing good happens after midnight. Rest in Peace my friend.
Don’t you get tired of repeating the same simple minded comment?
I disagree, I have had some good times after midnight