Police name the second driver killed in 24 hours
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now identified the driver killed in a Bodden Town single-vehicle collision on Thursday as Teron Anthony Johnson (22), a Jamaican national residing in Grand Cayman. This was the second fatality on Cayman’s roads this year and happened just 24 hours after the first fatal crash on Cayman Brac. The police said the Bodden Town collision happened shortly before 2:30am when a vehicle travelling west along Bodden Town Road hit a tree near the junction of Anton Bodden Drive.
The driver, who was alone in the car, sustained serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to the Cayman Islands Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead by the attending doctor. No other details have been revealed at this point, and the victim has not been identified. The crash is currently under investigation, police said.
The death toll for 2024 is now two, just as the RCIPS launches a targeted road safety campaign over the Easter holidays.
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my son was bad drive by another drive who run him off the road into a tree and he die ,I need justice for my son, the police must view the footage of the accident
They give out Cayman driving licenses to anyone with a pulse without ever taking a proper test then wonder why we have so many accidents. The utter stupidity is mind boggling.
License or not has no effect on the recklessness and selfishness of thousands of drivers here, expats and locals included.
“License or not has no effect” WOW! You don’t think that if they were licensed by having to do a proper practical driving test, they would be on the roads at all?
License or not no stop the dayglo shirt brigade
I was waiting for my motorcycle practical exam and was in the room where people do the computer test.
An expat who sounded like they just landed literally asked “Sir what does roundabout mean” and he was assisted by the proctor.
I wa like yup, this why our driving standard is shit here.
Bro, back in 2005, when I did my driving test, I basically took the instructor to pick up lunch, RBC for a withdrawal and made me park illegally while he ran to the ATM. There after he tested my parallel parking skills and had reverse for about 50 meters. Full licensed! Thankfully, I’ve experienced driving abroad for some time at a young age and really learned valuable driving skills. I mean, how can a person not handle a vehicle at 40 mph? We see this every day.
The 3rd time I went to take my motorbike license test, the guy at the desk said “you’ve made it here 3 times, pass”. That was about 25 years ago though.
It is the lack of discipline as a society when compared to other countries such as Singapore and Japan, their citizens are more in line in doing whats right internally and by the laws prescribed.
The driving culture has been poisoned due to emulation of the reckless heathens and by feckless traffic patrols.
The only realistic solution to slow the death dealers down are speed tables and speed bumps and new state of the art traffic cameras because the culture is not improving and the police cannot be counted on.
‘Reckless heathens’?
You damn right. Reckless heathens — those without feck. 😀
I am not 6:28, just someone who agrees with them.
So you a heathen too with your language!
The northern end of West Bay Road between Fosters West Bay and the West Bay Fire Station is treated like a drag strip. Though that stretch of road has blind corners, solid white lines through most of it, and is a 30 MPH ZONE, the Honda Accord and Honda Civic crowd come through at over 50 MPH, OVERTAKING, and driving recklessly. Particularly the guys in the florescent green and florescent orange shirts at 7AM.
Speed bumps and speed tables. Hopefully they will destroy their racecars.
This has nothing to do with the police and EVERYTHING to do with our non-existant test. The incompetence is staggering. Many drivers here are unsafe at 15mph. Even many police in marked cars have NO CLUE what lane they should be in. Our accident stats are almost 10 times worse than the UK’s despite, better weather, slower speeds and MORE police/capita!
Every time I’ve been to the Cayman I see cars off the road wrecked. You better hope CIG never allows MaryJane to be legal. You’re going to end up with more cars in the trees than you do chickens. Oh yea for the person that told me to move to WY for saying this before, I know what DUI in CO is like since we’ve legalized the Ganja absolutely horrendous.
If there isn’t something seriously done to address the driving culture here soon, we may all need a spiff to deal with it.
Both. The rozzers are ineffective.
RIP both victims
My friend Dulce passed away on March 20th. I’m so shocked. It’s sad to see this in the news to find out a friend of mine was the victim of a horrible accident 😔 😞 😢
I hope the wingnut who often drives a red Audi saloon around the Fairbanks area reads this. Maybe whilst pulled over yesterday by the police, he stopped to contemplate how driving like an antisocial fool in a residential area is not a good idea. Car has more wheels than he has brain cells.
He read it, good. You’re a douche.
Probably being complimented for his cool ride or being invited to a party.
Crazy driving and road deaths have been the norm since the 70s. As seen in the old newspaper articles and editorials from 50 years ago.
Toss in tens of thousands more drivers and cars, new distractions like cell phones and the abandonment of effective law enforcement. The situation will only worsen without a serious and sustained effort. A lack of effective governance is the problem. CIG has taken its eye off the ball for so long the road to recovery will be a long one.
This stupid pledge that’s being pushed now by the government, aiming to have zero deaths in a few years, what utter nonsense.
The number one vehicle safety advancement has been mandatory in the UK for decades, and is rarely needed to be enforced as it’s an actual no brainer. Yes, the simple old seatbelt. Apparently it’s mandatory here, but you wouldn’t know it.
If you want to have zero deaths, start with basics. Wear seatbelts. If morons don’t comply, prosecute them. Of course, having so many Jamaican officers in RCIPS doesn’t really help with this.
If you want to see needless deaths, carry on as you were.
Take care of the seatbelts, then try other crazy things, like a meaningful test. Don’t accept licenses from places outside of Europe, Canada, and maybe the US.
This may also mean that NRA won’t need to put plastic sticks everywhere to guide idiots around roundabouts etc.
Ah, it’ll never happen. Buckle up.
Too many children not in car seats or buckled up
We dont need more police presence or to ban Hondas either or have speed cameras everywhere. We need an internationally recognized driving test with real examiners who ask real questions while driving out on a real test. Stringent testing is needed not this round the block thing. Anyone coming here needs to do a real test with real driving. Fake licenses and so called expert drivers dem from places we know do not work. Wake up Cayman
Pal, the lawlessness is not contained to Hondas. Plenty moms and dads in all sorts of cars driving like maniacs on residential roads such as South Sound Road daily. Overtaking, tailgaiting and speeding with no consequences 24/7.
The new Commissioner of Police needs to crack down on speeders, I can’t recall when I last saw a police speed trap, but I can recall seeing dozens of raving lunatics driving way over the speed limit every day.
this morning
one by kimpton this morning.
Where have you been!? This is all the RCIPS knows to enforce. So much so, that they’re so greedy to issue a speeding ticket for 5 mph over the limit but none for not indicating.
More police presence is desperately needed on the roads!!
Police presence is not possible, a serious mindset is required along with bar/restaurant owners being held responsible for intoxicated drivers getting behind the wheel.
Aint nobody serving the maniacs in the mornings
Err no … drivers need to stop using their phones, stop speeding and stop drink driving. Personal responsibility!
More intelligence and empathy for other humans are needed on the roads here on this small island. The island culture does not put much stock in either one. Just plan on more accidents and deaths and drive defensively. Let the speeders and suicide passers go by. Know that a quarter of the drivers do not follow any laws and drive accordingly.
a tree and a power pole – static objects seem to be extremely dangerous in Cayman. Dwayne was lucky in more ways than one.
And therein lies one of the issues … XXXXX. No police investigation, no political consequences and therefore no demonstrable accountability to the public. On this basis what authority do the police or government have to change the driving behaviour of the Cayman population????
People just don’t appreciate the force of a object that’s couple thousand lbs. traveling 60+mph generates.
At the big roundabout at Camana Bay last night, a car zipped through at about 80 miles an hour, with no intention, or ability, to stop for anybody else. Wow!!!
Saw a bloke on a sportbike blow through it like he was racing on the Isle of Man recently.
So a fatal crash in a 25 mph zone. That’s a lot of carnage for 25 mph.
Put some speed tables and bumps in that area and the lunatics stop immediately.
a by-product of rcips not enforcing basic rules of the road.
free simple solutions to terrible driving standards:
1. as per the uk, do not accept jamaican driving license
2. if you cause an accident or get charged with careless driving , you must automatically re-sit driving test
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.
Mate, it’s a terrible idea. Please stop it.
Non sworn-in private police would be an absolute cluster.
Just expand the traffic unit here. Not by a few cops and an unmarked car. I’m talking at least 10 units and an additional 20 officers. Trained and dedicated solely to the roads.
I saw an old pickup today, both headlights held in place with zip ties. Another car with one light, as the other was removed some time ago… This crap needs addressing, but it’s so far down the agenda it doesn’t even register.
Voters and leadership here will see this as a targeted attack on themselves. Never happen here Bobo. If you don’t like living with third world you have to move.
Absolutely horrible idea, wildly open to abuse and will do nothing to stop the countless incompetent slow drivers who are not even safe at the speed limit.