Tag: DUI
RCIPS nets 20+ drunk drivers in one month
(CNS): More than 20 drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol last month, with some being more than three times over the legal limit. Given the role that drinking plays in the significant number of smashes on Cayman’s roads every day, traffic officers said they are being extra vigilant during their patrols […]
Cop car involved in another smash
(CNS): Police have reported yet another collision involving an RCIPS vehicle. This time a “service vehicle” was said to have been involved in a collision at the junction of Watercourse Road and Hell Road in West Bay with a gold Honda Civic at around 8:30pm Friday evening. While the RCIPS has not said what type […]
Suspect drunk driver has narrow escape
(CNS): The driver of a grey Kia Cerato who crashed into a wall on Sunday evening in Bodden Town was uninjured after a lucky escape. The 26-year-old man from West Bay was helped out of the car by a member of the public after it caught fire shortly after the collision. However, he was arrested […]
Drunk driver suspect escapes from cop car
(CNS): A woman arrested for drunk driving following a crash on the West Bay Road on Sunday made a run for it when the cop car she was in stopped at the hospital. However, the woman handed herself in yesterday, police said, as they continue the investigation into the smash in which a second driver […]
Driver 4x over limit stopped in wrong lane
(CNS): Police are once again urging drivers not to get behind the wheel when they have been drinking, after averting what could have been another tragic road smash this week. At 6:00 on Tuesday evening officers pulled over a driver who was driving in the wrong lane. Given his slurred speech and the strong smell […]
Crashes return as traffic increases
(CNS): Road collisions in Cayman were back to pre-COVID levels this past week, the RCIPS has said. Between 20 and 27 September officers responded to over 50 reports of crashes, more than ten of them involving injuries. The traffic unit said the majority of these crashes were due to speeding and people driving under the […]
Head-on collision on Cayman Brac
(CNS): Two vehicles collided on Cayman Brac Friday night after one of them swerved into the opposite lane. Police said that just before 11:20pm on 7 February, police and other emergency services responded to a 911 call about a crash involving two vehicles along South Side West Road.
Cop arrested for drunk driving
(CNS): A 63-year-old police officer was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning on suspicion of drinking and driving following a single-vehicle collision in George Town. Police said that at 2:00am they were called to the crash scene on the Linford Pierson Highway, where they found that the off-duty officer, who was driving a […]
Senior cop alarmed by DUI increases
(CNS): There is not sign of any reduction in the number of drivers getting behind the wheel drunk, according to the RCIPS, and Superintendent Robert Graham said he was alarmed by the amount of people consuming alcohol and then driving home. In September a total of 27 people were nabbed by officers for driving under […]
Man critically injured in 3-vehicle crash
(CNS) UPDATED MONDAY: Police are appealing for witnesses to the serious smash in Bodden Town on Saturday night in which one man was seriously injured. Officers said he remains in hospital in a critical condition as they urged anyone with information to contact the traffic unit. A 31-year-old man has already been arrested on suspicion […]
Cops pepper spray driver resisting arrest
(CNS): A 23-year-old man involved in a single-vehicle crash near the Yacht Club Roundabout early Sunday morning was pepper sprayed by the police after he resisted arrest for drinking and driving. The RCIPS said that one of the police officers received minor injuries during the struggle, and both he and the driver were treated at […]
