Dump truck and rental car crash at ETH roundabout
(CNS): Police are investigating a collision on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway Roundabout by Lawrence Boulevard yesterday lunchtime involving a dump truck and a rental vehicle. The emergency services were called out at about 12:10pm after the truck and the car, which were both travelling north, crashed at the second exit. The Cayman Islands Fire Service extricated three occupants from the hire car, who were all taken to the hospital by ambulance. One of the occupants sustained a laceration to the head, but police said they believed none of them had sustained any life-threatening injuries. No other parties reported injuries to the police.
Anyone with information is asked o call the Traffic and Roads Policing 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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Drive the posted speed limits and you’re followed dangerously closely by all ethnicities here on 2 lane roads. Drive the speed limit on a carriageway in the proper lane, and you’re passed as if you’ve blown an engine in a F1 race, as Hamilton, Perez, Sainz, and Verstappen pass you in their F1 mini-trucks, moms in suvs, big bad bros in lifted 4wd trucks, gravel lorries, concrete mixers and the ubiquitous circuit champion of the islands, the mighty Honda Fit.
Vroom, vroom. Pass the rum.
I come from a state where we have rotaries (roundabouts). The problem I find with the roundabouts in Cayman are that the signs are small telling you where you need to go, so you are almost at the turn off before you see the sign. If I miss the turn off, I just go around again or take the turn off and back track, but I am sure a lot of people try to cut over. I think that may be natural instinct. Maybe bigger signage would help or a few bigger signs before entering the roundabout?
Roundabouts SUCK! They were made by the devil!
Getting rid of the roundabouts would be easier!
Time for a new charity where expats teach locals how to drive and use the left most lane available, and when to use the right hand lane. You should only be in a right hand lane if you’re turning right or overtaking, otherwise you are driving against the law.
Brilliant. We could lure a musician to perform at St. Pedro, charge $1500 and up per ticket payable by wire transfer.
Dump trucks and other large commercial trucks speed everywhere they go.
They go down my residential street at least 50 miles per hour when they’re done collecting the trash, kids ride their bikes here It’s insane.
Say it louder! We can’t hear you over the jake brakes!
I have said it before and will say iy again. These guys drive dump trucks like they are in an Indy race. They are grossly overloaded drive like idiots and are continually honking at each other. Not sure why they honk when they are meeting each other. I guess they think their buddy can’t see them.
There was another crash today at Butterfield roundabout. Mitsubishi SUV on its roof.
This looks a lot like a vehicle I have seen constantly bring driven flat out on Shamrock Road. Dark skinned driver, Nativa model or similar, dark color. This is what you get for driving like a complete twat. Learn your lesson, please.
…Dark skinned driver… What are you trying to convey? A Dark skinned Caymanian? A dark skinned Panamian? A Dark skilled Norwegian??? Surely your raciacism is front and center. Go back to your racist haven and get educated. Your comment is a disgrace.
It’s called a description of the perp.
dark skinned is also a DESCRIPTION. sorry you are too chronically online to know the difference between racism and a descriptor of a person.
I said dark skinned because I don’t know where he is from and he is dark skinned. I do know that Shamrock idiot is also dark skinned. I mean, if you want to suggest another identifying characteristic go for it. Fool.
My point is that saying ‘Dark Skinned’ does little to really identify the individual. Sure – ‘a male’ is descriptive, so it narrows it down to 50% of the island. Same as ‘short haired, or bald.’ It is obvious to any logical person that your term ‘Dark Skinned’ was racist, and naive and objectively, not very helpful to the topic of identifying the individual. If you inluded 5-6-7 descriptive features, that may have been helpful, but ‘Dark skinned’??? Your biases seeped through your typing!
Surely you did not hope for a logical response. This is Cayman, this is a third-world territory with 4’th world officials. It is beyond first-world logic.
If you are in the left hand lane turning right at a roundabout, as clearly happened here, you should have never been given a driving license or been allowed to drive a car, how stupid can you be?
A Cayman driver… Hence why I won’t drive in Cayman – loss of car rental monies and license fees. I have a nice bike! Cayman losses, I stay safe!
Good luck!
What a surprise. A dump truck and a tourist not being able to navigate basic roads at low speeds
rental companies should print stickers for the steering wheels and make sure tourists know how to use a roundabout, and that the left lane is for slow traffic. It wouldn’t solve the fact that 90% of the license holders here don’t know the above – but it’d be a start.
The left lane is not for “Slow traffic”, it for turning left or driving straight. There is so such thing as a “slow lane” in the Cayman Islands. Contrary to what most speeders believe the speed limit applies to ALL lanes of traffic. There is also no “Fast Lane” in the Cayman Islands either.
only at junctions are lanes used like that. On dual carriageways on straight stretches of road you’re supposed to stay in the left lane and keep the right clear to allow faster traffic to pass. This prevents all the weaving, and long queues of cars backing up when both lanes are being used at the same time by slow drivers. It helps to ease traffic flow and ease congestion.
Nonsense. You’re correct about roundabouts. And you should only indicate right at a roundabout if turning right, not going straight on. But on the Highway you should use the left most lane available. People driving slow in right hand lane, between camana and al Thompson for example, are breaking the road laws.
True but the right hand lane if for overtaking or turning right. If you’re doing neither, regardless of your speed, you should pull over to the left lane. Cayman Road Code is crystal clear.
Fast lanes aren’t necessary when all lanes are jammed with traffic. Why can’t something be done about that?
The left lane is not for “slow traffic”. So I presume you are part of the bad driving posse.
No no no, 1.31pm! The left lane is NOT for slow traffic. It is simply the lane you MUST use, unless you are overtaking or turning right at the next roundabout, at which time you use the right lane.
Overtaking usually requires going faster.
well, drive the speed limit than.
Most resident drivers don’t appear to know the Traffic Code/Law either, and sadly neither do you.
The caymanians are the worst as they never took a real driving test. All caymanians should have their licenses taken away until they pass a UK standard theory and practical test (on a manual/stick car, not automatic)
Hey! I paid good money for my licence!
RCIPS
Rental company customers are NOT the problem. It is Cayman residents and workers. STOP blaming the expats.
That will nwver ever happen
Hey, blaming expats is a national sport in the Cayman Islands.
So let me guess, dump truck driving in right hand lane for no reason (the right hand lane is for overtaking or turning right only), tourist car turning right at roundabout using left hand lane? Every single hour of every damn day.
There is of course the possibility that the dump truck was in the middle lane making a perfectly permissible turn off the roundabout.
I saw a triple-rear ender and side-swipe there on Sunday afternoon. All local drivers, I suspect two were dummy mummies.
Speed limits too. Always stuck behind 30-40 kph hour rental cars on 30-40 mph roads.
Slow the F down, Speed Racer
The speed limit should be obeyed both ways. It is an offence to hinder/disrupt the natural flow of traffic, i.e. Driving below the speed limit casing a lineup behind you.
Ah, the following too closely/tailgaiting dumdum has entered the chat.
You’re a very special case. Assuming and name calling is obviously your strong suit.
(i) avoid obstructing other vehicles whether the vehicle under control is
moving or stationary
from the Cayman Islands road code…..
Every Taxi operator will have a problem with that ….
Excuse me can you read? Why tf should I have to slow down Let me explain in baby steps for you and all the other slowpokes.
30 mph = 48 kph. Tourists get into kph cars, see a sign saying 30 and think it means 30 kph. They’re actually driving at 18 mph, almost HALF the actual speed limit. That is hindering other traffic and should be policed.
Exactly, especially on Church Street, Seafarers Way and West Bay Road. Press that gas pedal, twist that throttle, and beware all bicyclists, pedestrians, dogs, babies in strollers and Bird users
YOU’RE THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine if we had a reliable public transport system and/or reasonably priced taxi service here. Tourists are almost obligated to rent a car when the daily rate is no more that one taxi ride form the airport to their hotel.
I have the same dream. CIG is moving forward on a $70M extension to the ETH to the Eastern Districts. Based upon past historic performance, that figure will more than double. We could surely create a reliable, air-conditioned, comfortable, safe bus line with an ACTUAL schedule for less. For a little more, we might be able to create a light rail system to run from the furthest points of the island. I would think that Mr. Dart might consider that to be a boon to his empire, and chip in toward that endeavour.
Why enlist DART? CIG can easily cover this expense, but has not the bal.s to pay for it. CIG is worthless. The solutions to the traffic are easy, but the Ministers are unable to tie their own shoes or wipe their as.es. But, you got what you elected – I hope you like what you elected.
Well…… All I can say is it has been like that for the last 30 years!
The photos alone show pretty clearly that the car was going around in the outside lane and cut across the roundabout, that’s how the dump truck hit it.
I agree the dump trucks are unruly at best, but this one’s on the rental car.
A major aspect of driving is to monitor and preempt potential dangers. Here ‘professional’ drivers tailgate, speed, and fly around roundabouts. Without witnessing this incident, I can hazard a guess that it was preventable.
Look at the vehicle around, is it a rental? if it’s a newish Kia, beware as it’s likely a tourist. If it’s an old Honda Fit, it’s likely an idiot driver driving with that cloak of anonymity that such vehicles afford. Drive as such.
I’ve been driving here for 15 years, never hit or been hit, mainly due to a little bit of luck, but a lot of constant looking left, right and in mirrors.
pretty long skid marks for a dump truck in the inside fast lane tho
There’s no such thing as a fast lane on a roundabout bobo.
There are yield signs to enter roundabouts, so if the car was going around, they have the right of way. These trucks are notorious for speeding and not yielding, as well as the too often used jake brakes and air horns.
Garbage. A car in the left lane of a roundabout DOES NOT have right of way to turn right.
Tell that to the police, I lost my license for a year and had pay nearly KYD$ 2000 to CIG.
Problem is that most rental cars are driven by Americans and Canadians and they do not know how to deal with roundabouts as they are very rare in America and Canada. Added to that, most don’t know how to drive on the opposite side of the road from their home countries.
I hope all involved in this crash are ok.
That being said, the lanes there literally have huge arrows pained on them as well as signs posted showing you what lane to be in.
People just don’t look, don’t care, are drunk – or a combo of all 3.
The big Camana Bay roundabout really isn’t that hard if you’re not a dummy.
A roundabout is essentially an intersection. How hard is it to figure out??? Would you turn right from the left lane in an intersection???
a jamiacan and a tourist…what do you expect?
asked before:
why do we accept the jamiacan license and the uk does not?
just like that you made it go about nationality. let’s help you out .
Point one- it was a young local dump truck driver. They are many and lot more trying to do other things than wait for CIG hand outs and get the nice office job . May not be meny but few of us are happy to just work a honest living.
Point two- the tourist if it was as so many locals also rent cars, was in the outside lane and then trying to go around when in facts they should have been in the inside or middle lane.
it’s not about where your from. But more of how much you understand the road laws. and that goes for all locals and visitors alike. when I travel I know that I need to understand and pay attention to the road signs around me.
I often wonder if the rental companies actually take the time to explain to tourists how roundabouts work. Suspect not.
Probably not but IME it’s not just tourists who don’t know how to use them. The idiotic way driving instructors here teach people to drive both roundabouts and dual carriageways, in contravention of the Cayman Road Code, is beyond idiotic. The only other place I’ve seen it on the planet is Jamaica.
Driving instructors??? Show me one that knows how to drive properly themselves.
Assume that the tourists don’t know what they are doing and make sure you are going an appropriate speed to avoid a collision if they do make bad choices. ability to read the road ahead and act accordingly.
Hard to see the green plates! And yes, a lot of accidents are because tourists dont yield at roundabouts, they are not used to looking to the left and don’t understand the Yield/Give Way signs!
There are accidents every day involving tourists .. these dont make the news!
Stupid round a abouts. Put traffic lights, problem solved.
They’re only considered stupid by those stupid people who don’t know how to use them properly.
Everyone should have a right to their opinion……… except the nerds who think roundabouts are so wonderful.
I doubt that the majority of American and Canadian drivers know how to use roundabouts properly. How many roundabouts have you ever seen in Florida?
And jam up the roads even more. Great idea!
Roundabouts are by far the most efficient and safest junction. It’s perfectly simple to negotiate a roundabout safely, all of Northern Europe manages just fine with a tiny fraction of the crashes we have. It’s not the road’s fault the drivers here can’t drive.
C’mon it’s not even been explained to most of the RCIPS drivers yet.
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