Tag: hit and run
Police seek witnesses to pedestrian hit-and-run
(CNS): Officers investigating a hit-and-run at the busy Grand Harbour Roundabout in George Town last Thursday evening are calling for anyone who saw the incident or who may have information to come forward. Police said a pedestrian was knocked down as he crossed the road in the area at about 5:15pm but the vehicle failed […]
Police hunt driver after hit-and-run on Smith Road
(CNS): The police are appealing to the public for help tracking down a small dark-coloured car involved in a hit-and-run on Smith Road, George Town, last weekend. A man received non-life-threatening injuries when he was run down just east of the Smith Road Centre on Saturday, 18 December, at around 6:15pm. The car immediately fled […]
Pedestrian critical after hit-and-run in GT
(CNS) UPDATED: A woman is in hospital in critical condition after she was knocked down Tuesday evening by a car that left the scene. Police said the collision happened around 8pm yesterday on Shedden Road as she was crossing the road near the Edward Street intersection. She was struck by a red SUV vehicle which […]
Police hunt smash and run driver
(CNS): Officers investigating a crash on Hirst Road at the junction of Moonbeam Drive earlier this year are asking for help in tracking down the driver of a black pickup truck who fled the scene. At around 6:20pm on Wednesday, 15 April, during the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown, police responded to the serious crash. […]
Woman injured in crosswalk hit-and-run
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a small white car with a registration number beginning with 188 after a hit-and-run on the West Bay Road Wednesday evening at around 8:30pm. A woman was using the crosswalk south of Gecko Link when she was hit by the car, which did not stop and left the […]
Smash-and-run driver leaves plate behind
(CNS): A driver who rear-ended another vehicle on Crewe Road, George Town, on Tuesday evening fled the scene but left his bumper behind with the registration plate attached, leaving a significant clue to his identity. Police responded to the collision near Ryan’s Retreat at about 5pm, where they learned that both cars involved were heading […]
Cyclists and pedestrians suffer over bad driving
(CNS): Royal Cayman Islands Police Service statistics show that 88 cyclists and pedestrians were hit by cars last year on local roads. Three people were killed and another 57 sustained injuries, many of them serious. Although police usually issue releases when a person is killed or badly hurt on the roads, many of these collisions […]
Driver ready to admit killing cyclist in hit-and-run
(CNS): A man accused of killing a cyclist in an early morning hit-and-run in George Town in April is keen to admit the charges against him, the court heard Friday, but not all of the facts of the fatal collision have yet been established. Wilfred Ellington Myles Jr, from George Town, is charged with causing […]
Woman arrested in fatal Brac hit-and-run
(CNS): Police have confirmed that officers have arrested a 28-year-old woman from Cayman Brac on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The woman was arrested over a week ago, on 8 May, in relation to the fatal incident on 22 March on Watering Place Road near to La Esperanza bar. Mitchell Marvin Ryan (55), […]
Cyclist injured in another hit-and-run
(CNS): A man cycling along Shedden Road was injured when he was struck by a white car last night near to the junction of Mary Street in central George Town. At around 10:15pm the driver of the car, which police said could have been a two-door Honda Prelude, came from behind the cyclist but after […]
GoFundMe page created for cyclist killed in hit-and-run
(CNS: Police have now identified the man who was killed when he was knocked off his bicycle on North Church Street in George Town early yesterday morning. Ignacio “Nacho” Kirzner (21), an Argentinian national, was riding to work at the Kimpton when he was hit by a vehicle and left in road at around 5:30am. […]
