Tag: road accident
Woman trapped after crashing car into light pole
(CNS): A woman who crashed a blue Kia Rio into a light pole in Prospect on Sunday night was trapped inside the vehicle and had to be rescued from the car by the Cayman Islands Fire Service. The collision, which caused significant damage to the front of the Kia, broke the pole half and caused [&helli [...]
Man critical after being run over in George Town
(CNS) UPDATED: A pedestrian is in a critical condition after being knocked down on Shedden Road Tuesday night, following a fight at a bar in central George Town. The police say the man was injured during the altercation between several men one of which had a machete before he fled into the street, n [...]
Stolen Honda crashed by Kings Roundabout
(CNS): The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is appealing for witnesses to a two-vehicle crash yesterday evening at the Kings Roundabout involving a Honda Accord that was said to be stolen and a Nissan Pathfinder. Police said that after the collision, the occupants of the Honda Accord left the sc [...]
Pillion rider injured in collision between car and motorbike
(CNS): A man who was riding pillion on a motorbike sustained minor injuries when the bike collided with a car at the junction of Agricola Drive and Shamrock Road in Bodden Town on Friday. Police said that he was transported to the Cayman Islands hospital for treatment, but the rider of the motorcycl [...]
Several injured in BT head-on crash
(CNS) UPDATED: Police from the traffic unit have opened an investigation into a head-on collision in what police said was the Pease Bay area of Bodden Town last night. All four people were injured in the crash, which involved two cars. Police said the crash happened at around 8:20pm on Tuesday, 9 Oc [...]
Local man killed in Breakers crash
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now confirmed that the driver of the silver Mercedes-Benz who was killed Thursday evening in a single-car crash was Peter Oliver Andrew Rankine (46) from East End. The RCIPS also said that the fatal crash happened on Bodden Town Road before the intersection of North Side [...]
Road collision victim placed 3rd in ultra-marathon
(CNS): Geoff Cornwall (56) was the cyclist killed in yesterday’s collision on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway, the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has confirmed. Cornwall, a resident of Grand Cayman working for a local bank in the IT sector, was a keen sportsman and had placed third in this [...]
Cyclist killed in collision on ETH
(CNS) UPDATED: The cyclist who was killed in a crash on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway this morning is a 56-year-old resident originally from Australia, the police have confirmed. The man was killed at the scene some time after 7:30am Tuesday along the stretch of highway between Yacht Drive and Bata [...]
Driver killed after looking for phone
(CNS): Rowena Scott (25) was looking around the car for a missing phone moments before it crashed into a concrete wall along Shamrock Road, an inquest heard on Monday. The coroner’s hearing into the death of Scott, following a single-vehicle crash in March 2015, opened before a jury, who heard [...]
Road damaged after heavy equipment falls off trailer
(CNS): Police, emergency services and the NRA were called to the Chrissie Tomlinson Roundabout in Prospect on Sunday after a piece of heavy equipment fell off a trailer as the dump truck it was attached to maneuvered around the traffic circle. It is not clear how the digger came off the trailer but [...]
