Driver admits killing motorcyclist in West Bay crash
(CNS): Jordon Telford (39) from West Bay pleaded guilty on Friday to causing the death of Shemiah Grant in a collision in the district almost two years ago. The case has dragged through the courts as a result of the time it takes for accident reconstruction reports to be finalised. However, Telford finally answered the charges and admitted to causing death by dangerous driving on 3 March. He was bailed until 28 April after the relevant social, psychiatric and victim impact reports were ordered by the court ahead of sentencing.
Telford was driving a white Hyundai along North West Point Road in West Bay on the evening of 2 May 2021 when he collided with Grant, who was on a motorcycle and died later that night at the hospital.
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Jamaican old style call me “badmind” for speaking da truth! cayman so small and people always driving like they always late for something! unna drive like how your parents have sense please and thanks!
When you take the life of a parent, you should inherent their bills until the kids are 25. maybe then some people will think twice about driving like morons.
Brilliant suggestion.
I often walk Shamrock Road. The number of morons doing 60 and 70+ mph is ridiculous. Every day there’s people queueing up for a dangerous driving charge, but we know they’re rarely caught. It results in tragedies like this.
Just another day in what use to be ‘Paradise.” Shame on Cayman.
It was always going to be a problem but don’t you think we inherited our Drinking culture from the Brits Pub Culture? Sprinkled with American vacation inebriation culture? Why is everything a “Cayman” only issue?
Why not focus on solutions and reform we desperately need to prevent more tragedies like this such as>>
1. Raising the Drinking age to match the US’s 21 for starters,
2. More education on alcohol abuse and addiction before the bad habit forms,
3. Limits on and more regulation and restrictions on Liquor licensed and distributing facilities?
Note:
1. With or without raising an age limit, the majority of drunk driving cases involve persons well over 21 years of age.
2. Young people are drawn to whatever you forbid. So if you raise the drinking age, you accomplish nothing as far as improving culture.
Strategies to educate youths and steer culture in more positive ways would probably yield better results.
get him behind bars where he belongs.
It will be interesting what the prison sentence will be. Based on precedents in Cayman it’ll be pathetically light sentence for this unfortunate fatal reckless driving.
10.44am Why do you think he pleaded guilty, that gives him an automatic 25 to 50% discount off his sentence.
tragedy for everyone. hope lesson are learnt.
and time is served and restitution is made.