Cyclist seriously injured in roundabout collision
(CNS): A cyclist involved in a collision at a mini-roundabout in George Town Sunday night was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police said the collision took place on the roundabout at the junction of Elgin Ave and Hospital Road between a vehicle travelling west on Elgin Avenue and the bicycle, which was heading east on the left side of the roadway. The crash is being investigated by the police.
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Bicyclists who ride mostly in the morning into town from early in the morning are exercising. they are not going to work. They have been videoed riding two abreast on a very narrow street. The police need to give them a ticket. The law should block bicycles from using South Church Street, it’s too narrow and very dangerous. If a truck, fuel tanker truck, etc is going to move three feet to the opposite side of the road when another vehicle is there, someone is going to die. Would you head into a head-on collision?
Pick another road or exercise where there is side walks or proper bicycle lanes. Its your choice, No parent is going to choose you.
You didn’t bother reading revised guidelines in the UK Highway Code.
An excerpt,
‘The new rules mean cars must leave at least 1.5 metres room when passing bicycles – and revised guidance also says “it can be safer” for cyclists to ride two abreast.’
Trust me, the majority of roads in the UK are narrower than the majority of those in Cayman. Adapt your habits and avoid the fuel tanker trucks as well 🙄
Is this something we can expect to see and respected in Cayman, ? probably not, – cycling in Cayman is simply dangerous, and what about all those public transport vehicles/facilities that could carry a bike if it’s raining at least one way 🙄
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/highway-code-revised-cyclists-given-priority-in-new-rules-as-drivers-ordered-to-keep-1-5-metres-distance-when-overtaking-12521747
@2:15:
I shall not be holding my breath waiting for the feckless clowns we have in power to anything to actually help people.
Banning importation of vehicles over 7 years old, in face of rapidly rising inflation and working people already facing economic hardship is the sharpest slap in the face of the working class I have ever seen in these islands. Leave it to a privileged lump premiere who never had to worry about making ends meet to make it harder for us to make ends meet. And 7 years is totally stupid and harsh. In countries that do have such bans, it is longer than 7 years, with 10 being common. The price difference between a 7 year old vehicle and a 10 year old vehicle can be substantial. We cannot continue to tolerate a government that favours the elite.
Yessss! I would dearly LOVE to see proper accommodation for bikes and scooters! THAT should have been among the FIRST things this government moved for. Instead the Panton-PACTless Clown Car went totally assforemost and right to bans.
Share the road is a losing strategy.
Make little two lane bike freeways and pedestrian sidewalks.
OTOH, I see lots of pedestrians walking in the street rather than the sidewalk provided for them. Unless they get ticketed for jaywalking, they’ll continue to be an unwitting target for Cayman’s best drivers.
Make safe bike lanes!
How much will the right of way costs be on Church and South Sound in the narrow spots?
Yes, I need my food delivered quicker!
Get rid of all those stupid roundabouts. They aren’t worth the time and money it takes to build them. How many accidents occur every year at roundabouts? Why?…….Because they aren’t safe!!!!
I’m sure a lot of people could give you a lecture on the efficacy of roundabouts (when used properly) over the more expensive traffic lights, or 3-way and 4-way stops, but that argument is somewhat negated by the fact that most drivers in Cayman seem to treat stop signs as a mere suggestion to be ignored at will.
The major problem that I see associated with the roundabouts in Cayman is when two lanes entering a roundabout are reduced to a single lane exiting. The Smith Road junction to the first roundabout on Linford Pierson Highway (LPH) being a prime example.
At the end of every work day, hundreds of drivers on Bobby Thompson Way intending to go east on LPH get into the faster moving right lane, which is for drivers who intend to exit onto Fern Circle or come back down Bobby Thompson Way. Upon reaching the roundabout they then proceed to circle it and claim right-of-way over the drivers who remained in the left lane, thus jumping ahead of many cars that were ahead of them at the Smith Road traffic lights. In most countries this is a serious traffic violation as they are disrupting the flow of traffic!
It serves no purpose to constantly post instructions on how to properly use a roundabout if nobody is ever going to get punished for the improper use of a roundabout.
Around 5pm every day place traffic police on motorbikes at every roundabout where two lanes are reduced to one. If they ticket every driver circling the roundabout just to jump the queue, then government revenue will go up, traffic will move faster, and some people might learn how to properly use a roundabout.
Excellent thoughtful post 10:58. But one problem is, er, many of the police, judging from what I see when they drive on roundabouts, don’t seem to understand proper procedures either. Or is it they just don’t care…like so many others?
Look for more cycling deaths coming to a road near you.
The feckless, inept, irresponsible, uncaring, Panton-PACTless Clown Car (PPCC) just issued a decree banning importation of vehicles over 7 years old. The steep rise in cost of used vehicles will put vehicle ownership well beyond the reach of a great many of those in the lower-level pay scales such as those working in the hospitality, construction, food service, and retail industries. employees, school leavers just entering the job market, single mothers, to name a few. They did this in the face of high inflation already causing financial hardship to the working person.
The feckless PPCC did this even though Cayman has NO mass transit system, very high taxi and bus fares and NO bicycle lanes. The use of Bicycles and scooters will greatly increase over time. You can look for an increase in injuries and deaths. The blood of the victims who died because they were forced to cycle on a traffic lane due to no cycling lanes, will be on the hands of the PPCC.
Clearly, the Clown Car does not care about you. They do not care about your hardships. They do not give a damn about your safety.
The PPCC Cabinet members reportedly earn over CI$130,000 per year or CI$2,500 per WEEK! That is more than a great many on a limited income earn in a whole month. And they will retire on a handsome income. The PPCC live privileged lives in ivory towers. They could not care less about the working man or safety or even human lives as long as it is not the elite who are endangered.
That’s a whole lot of doom and gloom about who doesn’t care for us. Do us a favor and tell us who *does* care for us. Who would you purport we vote for that is actually different?
@11:32:
Firstly, if you do not care for yourselves, no one else will.
For those who care about themselves: It is incumbent upon the people in each district to identify, encourage, and nurture candidates that they feel WILL make a difference and WILL care about them.
Having said that, it would be hard to imagine a more irresponsible feckless, and uncaring lot that the Panton-PACTless Clown Car, so finding people who can better them should be no steep hike.
If the people make it clear that the clowns will not get reelected unless they remove their red beeping noses and get with the program, that is often sufficient to get them to fall in line. However, it is best not elect clowns in the first place.
And you think no other bunch of “elected leaders” rip off the general public ???? There is a lot going on that you don’f know about.
Or maybe you are part of it.
@8:01 and @8:09:
A new government would have to be pretty damn bad to be worse than this bunch of feckless clowns.
Are you sure? It seems like that is the norm. If not, where are the “honest’ people you are referring to?
@8:09:
Yes, I am sure we have a bunch of feckless, irresponsible, uncaring, under-performing clowns in government.
Nothing to do with festivities this weekend I am sure 🤔
The bumping and grinding and objectification of women, public drunkenesss or the 2 car arson fires?
There are so many cyclists on the road at all hours lately, with many appearing to be people traveling to or from work. With cycling now a major form of transport for residents, I personally don’t believe Cayman has the infrastructure to accommodate them. There should be designated cycling lanes on every major public road to accommodate the increase in bicycle traffic. And what ever happened to police stopping riders cycling at night with no lights? I see cyclists on West Bay Road every night now without a light in front or back. Don’t cyclists have to obey Part 12 of the road code? https://www.dvdl.gov.ky/documents/Road-Code-2012-1-2021-02-25-02-10-56.pdf
Also many of these electric bikes that are popping up on island now are traveling at the same speeds as the flow of motor vehicle traffic (sometimes they’re faster!), therefore they should be treated as any other motor vehicle and should be licensed and their riders should be licensed to operate them. If an unlicensed vehicle is traveling on the roadway at the same speed as a motor vehicle but that unlicensed vehicle does not have competent and licensed rider operating it that understands the rules of the road, then that situation is a recipe for disaster.
Firstly dedicated cycle lanes are frequently blocked by cars or used to take a mobile phone call. When I am cycling with the morning or evening flow, I cannot ride fast because many cars are so far to the left there is no room to pass! And remember you have two mirrors on your car and you should check both before manoeuvring left or right.
Secondly (most) e-bikes are not that fast. Coming from a road bike where I could average 18 mph, my e-bike max is 15 mph. If you are at a standstill and I pass you at 10 mph I am of course going to appear much faster. I hope you are not in government, you sound like the person that would tax the air that I breathe. And in case you do not remember, bikes did at one time have to pay a license fee, it was $5 a year if my memory serves, but it was abolished for good reason.
I can’t speak for the wrong way riders and the unlit ones, but I obey all rules and it is just common sense to be lit. Do not tar all riders with the same brush please. I am an older person now but I can tell you that many many years ago when i was at school, there was a cycling proficiency test taught in schools. We were only allowed to cycle to school when we had passed this test. This was just sensible and was encouraged by government but not mandated or run by government. I have been riding bicycles for more than sixty years and will continue to do so, it is an extremely efficient and cheap way of getting about.
The carnage kmows no end.
a vehicle travelling west on Elgin Avenue and the bicycle, which was heading east on the left side of the roadway
If one is headed west (presumably on the left side of the road), and one is headed east on the left side of the road, shouldn’t they be on opposite sides of the road?
The collision “took place on the roundabout”.
It doesn’t matter. If one was headed east and one was headed west on Elgin Ave, the only road that lies in an east-west direction then they would still be on opposite sides of the roundabout.
If we accept that the “vehicle traveling west on Elgin Ave” is accurate, a leap of faith considering most police reports, then one of the following applies:
1. The bicyclist was traveling east on the right side of the road, (left from the vehicle traveling west perspective) against the traffic or the WRONG side of the road.
2. The bicyclist was coming from Hospital Road and:
(A.) Turned east onto Elgin Ave without going around the roundabout, putting it in the same scenario as 1. above, or
(B.) Was on the roundabout when struck by the vehicle. This then goes into the rules for giving way on roundabouts, but is highly unlikely when they mention the left side of the road in the report as there is no left or right side of a roundabout.
I have the greatest of respect for cyclist, and there are many good cyclist out there, but don’t beat about the bush when there are also many who ride against the traffic on the wrong side of the road. For their own safety, police need to stop and ticket them for this blatant violation of traffic rules.
A cyclist on the wrong side of the road and a driver distracted by his/her cellphone is a recipe for disaster.
YES!! THIS!! RCIPS PLEASE START TICKETING BICYCLISTS RIDING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!
And those walking and running with the traffic. Lock them up
And lock up the people that keep making those stupid roundabouts! It should be against the law!!!
And ticket anybody who posts in “ALL CAPS”!
Helmet? Lights? High vis clothing?
As per usual, we won’t hear anything after the announcement. We’ve had two fatalities in the last couple of weeks, and no update as to what happened.
You can always check out the gruesome video of the victim and their mangled bike on CMR.
Stop with the “whataboutery” please.
It is the clearly stated responsibility of vehicle drivers to look out for the safety of more vulnerable road users such as cyclists or pedestrians.
“Sorry, I didn’t see you” is not a defence under the eyes of the law, irrespective of how the person you hit and injure or kill is walking or riding.
True, but cyclists and pedestrians also have responsibility of their own as well. They cannot do whatever they want on the road either.
Tom seriously? Yes, the responsibilities of motor vehicle drivers are clearly stated in the law. The responsibilities of cyclists and pedestrians are also clearly stated in the Road Code. Part 12 and Part 9 respectively.
We’re all responsible for each other and ourselves on public roads.
Please read the U.K. Highway Code updated revisions. These do and will form the basis of Cayman traffic laws.
Beside the law saying you must be responsible for more vulnerable road users, it is simply being a good human. If you hit a pedestrian or cyclist they are at high risk of injury or death. If they hit you, maybe a paint scratch ?
PS of course they are also responsible for complying with the law, but any post that focussed on “but what about the cyclists” when one was struck by a vehicle is massively missing the point of driver responsibility.
Wrong. If the cyclist was not complying completely with the traffic laws, they are as much at fault if not more so.
And nothing about the accident last year that resulted in the death of a well liked local teacher from East End. Why no news?