Drivers avoid serious injury in three-car pile-up
(CNS): An undisclosed number of people avoided major injuries during a three-car pile-up Sunday night, 13 August, at the Lawrence Blvd stoplight during which a truck flipped over. Police, who were called to the smash around 9pm along with other emergency personnel, said that a white Toyota Trueno appeared to have collided with the rear of a Dodge truck and the front door of a Kia car that was headed in the opposite direction. The truck flipped over into the middle of the roadway.
A spokesperson for the RCIPS did not detail how many people were in the vehicles but said two of those involved in the accidents reported just minor injuries and were transported to hospital and treated. The roadway was closed while police carried out investigations, but was later cleared just after 11:30pm.
Meanwhile, on Eastern Avenue a 35-year-old man from George Town was arrested for driving under the influence and resisting arrest after a two-vehicle collision at the intersection with Godfrey Nixon Way in the early hours of the morning. The man was driving a Kia Sportage SUV which crashed into an Audi A4 car, badly damaging both vehicles.
Both crashes are still under police investigation, and anyone with information is asked to call the Traffic Management Unit at 649-6254. Anonymous tips can also be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777, the Miami-based call centre of Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS), or online here.
Category: Local News
Just another day at the race track
and yet – when you pass BT police station, there are 3-4 police cars parked outside any time of the day and day of the week……………
They didn’t come cayman to fight crime, or go out in the hot sun!!! Come fe live life.
Look for more and better accidents when service stations start selling liquor.
Enforce drink driving charges and put it on a criminal record as public endangerment and deny work permit applications if there are any drink related driving offenses and not just a minor traffic offense. Change the law. Do it now. You will quickly see the culture of drink driving change.
Oh just another day of expat bashing.
Now they the cause of traffic accidents? Perhaps my jaded eyesight that sees young men that look and talk like Caymanians driving those suped up honda’s and dirt bikes on public roads are expats? The same ones where the wheels don’t fit the wheel well properly so the car wobbles around all over the road? The drivers of cars so low to the ground the driver has to slam on brakes to go over a pebble in the street? And I guess the drivers with window tint and sleep-position seats are too expats? How about the moms with the fabulous weave and medusa nails with 5 kids bouncing around with no car seats or seat belts pulling out of a GT nail salon on the phone? How about the taxi drivers (you can only be caymanian for those jobs right) that stop on the pedestrian crossing or on a blind bend…..but you go ahead and blame the expats. I’m sure their country requirement to get a license in the first place stipulates “point and drive” just like it does in Cayman.
Guess if the law was made that any traffic offenses appear on a police clearance certificate the local unemployment rate would be even higher.
At this rate we will have to construct speed bumps every 20 yards on every road on the island.
I presume that the truck was travelling at the 25mph limit. NOT!
We need spectator benches and refreshments at ever intersection; some NASCAR type guard rails and we can sell tickets. CIG would make millions!
The cheap seat bus shelters provide pretty good viewing spots along west bay road and the bypass to view daily traffic shenanigans but these seats are provided by a charity because CIG money instead has to be spent on buying more land for cemeteries to bury the speed demons that frequently encounter Cayman’s most lethal weapon ~ the electrical poles.
Speaking of which when are CUC going to invest in underground power cabling. These electrical poles and wiring are an eyesore and the red lights on top make it darn hard to figure out the channel markers when coming in from the sea.