Tag: road accident
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 [...]
Couple injured after car smashes into wall
(CNS): A woman remains in hospital in stable condition awaiting further treatment for serious injuries following a single-vehicle smash just off Shamrock Road around 9pm on Tuesday, police said Wednesday afternoon. The collision happened when the Honda CRV veered off the side of the road. Both the [...]
Driver 2 times over limit escapes serious injury in crash
(CNS): Following a single-vehicle crash early this morning on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway, a 24-year-old man from West Bay was arrested on suspicion of DUI after giving a breathalyzer reading that was two times over the legal limit for alcohol. At about 1:20am Wednesday police were called to the [...]
Dump truck and car crash head-on in BT
(CNS): Police officers remain on the scene of a major crash between a truck and a car on Bodden Town Road, close to the junction of Anton Bodden Road, that happened this morning. Although no one was badly hurt, the police said it may take time for the road, which is now blocked, to be cleared. [&he [...]
