Tag: RCIPS Traffic Management Unit
Police plan summer traffic clampdown
(CNS): Police are urging the community to use the new RCIPS ‘Bridge’ app to alert officers to any traffic infraction concerns they have, as they are planning a number of traffic operations this summer to clamp down on rogue drivers. The RCIPS issued 16 tickets Wednesday when they conducted an operation in the South Sound/Prospect […]
Police clamp down on obscured car plates
(CNS): The RCIPS Traffic Unit is warning drivers that they will be enforcing the law regarding the need for an unobstructed display of all vehicle licence plates. With car thefts on the increase and stolen vehicles being used in crimes, police stressed the importance of being able to see licence plates on CCTV. Plate covers are […]
Support cop accused of hit and run
(CNS): The RCIPS Professional Standards Unit is conducting an investigation alongside a criminal inquiry after an auxiliary constable was arrested following a hit-and-run Sunday. At around 12:30am Sunday morning, 21 May, officers were called out to the incident by Tropical Plaza on Smith Road, where a woman was hit by a car. She was taken […]
Cyclist injured in hit-and-run
(CNS): A driver of an unidentified car knocked a 69-year-old man off his bicycle and left the scene at the weekend. The victim was taken to hospital with minor injuries, but the driver left before emergency services arrived, according to the police, who are now appealing for witnesses. The collision happened at around 12:15 am […]
Recent crashes reflect latest statistics
(CNS): Two major crashes in the last two days, one where a fire rescue truck ploughed into a light pole and hit a cyclist and the other where a car came off the road and ended up on the ironshore in East End, are examples of the realities underpinning the recently released annual traffic statistics […]
Police chief warns illegal riders Cayman has had enough
(CNS): Police seized six illegal motorbikes around the island yesterday and arrested two riders who failed to stop for police at traffic checks. The RCIPS has said it is focused on putting a stop to young men misusing the bikes and placing the road-using public in danger. “The island has had enough of the nuisance and […]
Woman dead after car pitches into canal
(CNS) UPDATED 2 Nov: Police have now confirmed that the woman killed when her car plunged into canal in Prospect, Monday, was Audrey Nugent (53) from George Town. Police are investigating the circumstances leading to Nugent’s death but they had stated that they do not suspect foul play.
Driver killed in Smith Road crash
(CNS): Michael Eden (28) from George Town was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning in a single vehicle crash on Smith Road. Police said that Eden was driving a Silver Mazada Roadster at around 4am Sunday when it veered off the road into a chain link fence surrounding a yard near to the […]
Cops believe bus driver may have seen fatal crash
(CNS): The police are appealing to the driver and passengers of a white bus that was travelling on South Sound Road toward George Town at the time of the fatal crash on Monday, 19 September, to come forward, as they believe they may have seen the collision of a white SUV and a motorbike at […]
Cops to clamp down on illegal trailers
(CNS): The RCIPS Traffic Management Unit has warned that officers will be clamping down on trailer safety in response to public complaints about the way some are being handled by drivers on the roads and as a result of some recent dangerous accidents. The traffic law regards trailers in the same way as it does […]
Weekend smash lands four in hospital
(CNS): Four people escaped serious injury in the early hours of Saturday morning (19 March) in a two-car smash in George Town. Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision on Bobby Thompson Way near the junction of John Greer Blvd at around 2:45am. A red Hyundai Santa Fe, driven by a 28-year-old man with two […]
