Man in critical condition after Sunday lunchtime smash

| 25/11/2024 | 31 Comments
Scene of the incident from social media

(CNS): A local man is in hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries following a crash in George Town around noon on Sunday between two vehicles. Police said members of the public alerted officers on foot patrol about the collision, which happened at the junction of Goring Avenue and Walkers Road. The officers called 911 and, with the help of an off-duty nurse and members of the public, rescued the drivers from their cars. They immediately began working on the man, who became unresponsive.

When the EMS arrived, the man and a woman from the second vehicle were taken to hospital. While the man remains in critical condition, the woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries but is still being treated at the hospital.

The collision is being investigated by the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit, but no details of the type of cars involved, the direction of travel or any indication of how the crash occurred have been released by the RCIPS. However, unconfirmed reports across social media suggest that the driver, a George Town man, had a heart attack at the time of the crash.

The RCIPS thanked the public and the emergency workers who assisted with the collision, including the nurse who assisted the police with CPR until the ambulance arrived.


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  1. Counting Crow says:

    Here’s a fun driving game to play. Count the amount of illegal license plates that were supposed to be swapped out November 15th, illegal lights and window tint and no indicator usage along with illegal use of the roundabouts.

    Write the totals down. Bet you will be shocked. Bonus points for no RCIPS cars on the road.

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  2. Head Janitor Of Starship Cayman says:

    Death trap cars , unlicensed drivers galore, absent enforcement, drivers without insurance, automatic equivalency without any testing for licenses issued from our easterly caribbean neighbor nation where a driverā€™s license can be obtained for ā€¦. 200 USD ! Even for commercial vehicles, buses and the list goes on!

    We got the perfect combination of circumstances for a disaster on the roads !

    Driving in these set of circumstances is an experiment with oneā€™s sanity and safety each time you get in the driverā€™s seat !

    But yes drivers on island will spend thousands of dollars on a new exhaust system whilst driving vehicles with all kinds of safety issues ! Vehicles inspected in East End will get an easy pass compared to the ones getting inspected at the DVDL on Crew Road (understand another example of ā€œRules for thee , but not for meā€)

    But how can laws be enforced by the RCIPS when our MPs and ministers refuse to be breathalyzers or have a blood test done when hospitalized after an unfortunate encounter with an inanimate object ?

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    • Anonymous says:

      You got to be joking? My car failed at Breakers because of a reverse light bulb out. One of two, wasn’t working. It’s fine, but the fact I had to return to have it verified I’d fixed it, kinda vexed me when seeing the multitude of cars with missing lights, broken lens covers, badly aligned headlights, both brake lights out etc.

  3. Anonymous says:

    The moral of this story is; donā€™t be on the roads at lunchtime on a Sunday.

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  4. Anonymous says:

    Didn’t he lose his driver’s licence?

  5. Anonymous says:

    The threat of injury or death on the roads will continue until morale improves.

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  6. Elvis says:

    So many death trap cars driving around and police do absolutely nothing. I mean u cant fail to see them on roads and no one stops them itā€™s unbelievable

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  7. Anonymous says:

    IF there is a good part to this story, it is the knowledge that RCIPS conducts foot patrols. Having never observed this, I didn’t know. I have long thought that PCs walking a beat is what we most needed in populated areas.

    Best of luck to the victims; you’re in HSA George Town and therefore in great hands.

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  8. Anonymous says:

    There are thousands on our roads that should not be behind a wheel including RCIPS staff!

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  9. Anonymous says:

    I saw a matte black Suzuki SUV, an old thing from the 90s. Exhaust hanging off, wheels all pointing in different directions, no tail lights (being driven at night), and being driven by an imbecile who couldn’t keep it in one lane.

    How is this able to happen? it’s not even unusual, is my point. Ergo, stupid accidents like this happen every day.

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    • Anonymous says:

      I bet what you *didn’t* see was police presence anywhere on that same drive. Hence why you see all the ridiculous not-road-worthy vehicles, and the terrible drivers they generally have behind the wheel.

      If the police did their jobs consistently for a year, the roads would be cleaned up.

      But hey, at least soon we’ll read about the purple ribbon buses and Operation “Meet-Our-Quota” or whatever they’re going to call this xmas period where they finally start doing their job for another 2 weeks before going back to being absent.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Road behaviour could change in weeks, if tickets were being written and licenses suspended as they are supposed to be, per the traffic enforcement obligations to the public. Andre Tahal needs to answer for the disconnects between public sentiment, full and over time payroll, and RCIPS on the clock leisure.

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    • Anonymous says:

      I either see directly vehicles breaking basic road rules/ laws daily, or have to avoid a near miss myself daily. Except this past Saturday, where I had 2 near misses that by quick action I avoided a collision within just a 3 hour drive.
      The one question I would love to ask a senior RCIPS officer, is why they refuse to enforce even the basic road code laws?
      It never used to be that way here. Go back to the days of the old Dodge Diplomat, Chev’ Impala patrol cars you would see on traffic duty every day all over Grand Cayman. Patrolling & enforcing traffic laws, speeding enforcement and more. Just doesn’t happen anymore here.

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      • SSM345 says:

        The road code is not enforced because of the paperwork to be performed thereafter by officers who are illiterate.

        FACT.

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        • Anonymous says:

          Agreed. I once had to write my own statement as the officer from a neighboring island to the east could not spell, nor did he know when to use him/he, she/her, and typed at about 3 words per minute. I guess if literacy tests were mandatory, the RCIPS would not have staff.

      • Anonymous says:

        Ask Andre Tahal, head of the fabled Traffic Unit.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Because the rozzers don’t have first world traffic patrols to take these dangerous and likely uninsured death traps off the road.

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    • Anonymous says:

      So, what did you do about it? Shake your head sadly? Why not temporarily break the code and call 911 on your cell phone and report it? Tell them you’ll follow. No?

      If not, you’re part of the problem. RCIPS waive the Vehicle Code enforcement of not driving and using a phone, if it is for a valid reason. Did you know that?

  10. Anonymous says:

    For the 1200000000 time, start setting speed traps on the bypass from kings roundabout until the new roundabout from 6am and you’ll get hundreds of dangerous drivers a month.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Too much work.

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    • Anonymous says:

      A day. Fixed it for you.

    • Anonymous says:

      speed traps do nothing to prevent the staggering incompetence we see daily as a result of not having a real driving test and accepting 3rd world licenses. Catching bad drivers is a very poor substitute for teaching them to drive competently in the first place.

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      • Anonymous says:

        First, you have to make them care about driving competently. Currently, many imported workers just. don’t. care. They come from places that make our traffic look like a day in the country.

    • Anonymous says:

      It would be cheaper installing speed cameras that take a photo of your car and you receive the ticket by email / po box.

      Been happening around the world for decades….

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  11. Anonymous says:

    Of course, we know, and the RCIPS freely admit that public alerts are necessary because they are nowhere near the main thoroughfares on Sunday “track sport” days, let alone on routine patrol in expectation and dissuasion of this ritual behavior. Yesterday, we had to take evasive actions to avoid two serious collisions from street racers, on a single 15 minute, 5 mi drive to the airport. One car squealed across three lanes and five cars to “win their sprint heat” to the Camana Bay Roundabout. We don’t need this.

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