Tag: road accident
RCIPS holiday safety campaign off to a bad start
(CNS): Traffic cops were called to twenty road smashes over the weekend, including one in which a person was killed and several others badly injured, as the RCIPS holiday safety campaign got off to a bad start. The extension of Operation Quaker into the festive season is a key component of the overall Christmas campaign […]
Police name Jamaican man killed in Red Bay crash
(CNS) UPDATED 12:11pm: Police have now identified the man who died in a collision Sunday night as Alden Emelo Ohero Irons (29), a Jamaican national residing in the Cayman Islands. According to the RCIPS, shortly before 10:00pm last night, the emergency services responded to a report of a serious two-vehicle collision on Shamrock Road in […]
Motorcyclist avoids serious injury in rush hour crash
(CNS): A motorcyclist was treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries after a crash around 8:30am Wednesday involving a white car on Shamrock Road, close to Ocean Club. The RCIPS said the rider was injured when he was thrown from the motorbike but avoided any serious harm and was released from hospital after treatment. No […]
Car brings down pole across Old Crewe Road
(CNS): Traffic police are currently on the scene of a collision on Old Crewe Road where a car reportedly crashed into a CUC light pole, knocking it down and is blocking the road. The driver, who was the only person in the car, has been taken to the Cayman Islands Hospital by ambulance to be […]
Couple badly hurt as car crashes into wall
(CNS): A 19-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries early Saturday morning when the car they were in crashed into a wall on Shamrock Road in Savannah. The single-vehicle collision happened at about 1:15am near Tuckerman Lane when the driver lost control of the car. Police said the vehicle, which was […]
Motorcycle rider badly hurt after late night crash
(CNS): The rider of a motorbike which crashed on Old Robin Road in North Side late Saturday night is in hospital recovering from serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police said they were called to the scene of the single-vehicle collision at around 11pm after the motorcycle appeared to have come off the road and crashed into […]
Drunk driver mows down men on porch
(CNS): A 26-year-old man from West Bay was arrested on suspicion of DUI after a breathalyzer test found that he was more than two times over the limit when he mowed down two people sitting outside a home in the district on Thursday night. Police said that at about 11:20pm police and emergency service were […]
One killed in two-car crash in George Town
(CNS) UPDATED: The man killed on Saturday evening in what appears to be a head-on collision on South Church Street has been identified as 37-year-old Carlos Luyang Patricio of the Philippines, who lived and worked in Cayman for a local auto-company. The other four people hurt in the two-car smash remain in hospital in serious […]
Cops respond to 25 weekend crashes
(CNS): The fatal collision on Friday evening in West Bay and the serious crash near Seven Mile Public Beach early Sunday morning were two of 25 road collisions reported to the RCIPS in another dangerous weekend for road users. From 24 September through 26 September, officers responded to the more than two dozen crashes all […]
Man critical after West Bay road smash
(CNS): A man sustained life threatening injuries in another major collision on Grand Cayman’s roads early Saturday in what appears to be a single-vehicle crash near Public Beach on the West Bay Road. Less than 12 hours after a local man was killed in West Bay on Friday evening, the emergency services were called out […]
West Bay man killed in motorbike crash
(CNS) UPDATED: The 33-year-old customs officer who was killed on Friday evening has been identified by police as Jessus Burowise Ebanks from West Bay. The former member of the national football team was killed when his white motorcycle and a grey minivan collided on Reverend Blackman Road, West Bay, shortly before 6pm. Ebanks was rushed […]
