I am becoming more and more concerned about road users in Cayman.
I find it very upsetting to read about road accidents in the paper especially when it results in serious or fatal injuries.
I have been driving for over five years and when I go out on the roads and have to deal with careless and dangerous road users I am actually surprised that there are not more accidents.
Obviously not everyone on the road is an accident waiting to happen, but I found it quite disturbing this morning when driving to work to find a police car not even slowing down on approach two stop signs, and drove straight through both of them.
The driver had definitely not come to a complete stop.
What kind of example is this setting to new drivers on the road?
Never mind those who may have been driving a few years and become a bit lax with their rules of the road.
Although I think when a stop sign is involved, it would be quite an easy rule to remember that you are required to stop!
Also, when I was driving up the West Bay road a few weeks ago in the afternoon – well I wasn’t really driving, it was more of a stand still in the traffic. Obviously nobody likes sitting in that traffic but just because people are impatient shouldn’t cause them to endanger other peoples’ lives by driving up the centre lane.
Everyone else is waiting, just wait your turn!
In this particular instance I saw the flashing blue lights in my rear view mirror and thought a police car was coming up the centre lane – I suppose fair enough if there is a serious emergency they need to get to.
However as the car approached (and then cut right in front of me at the roundabout) I realised it wasn’t a police car at all, but the governor’s limo.
I thought it was a disgrace.
How can the leaders expect the people they govern to obey the rules, when they can’t themselves. Just to save 10minutes they are quite happy to endanger other peoples’ lives. That lane is for turning not jumping queue.
Used as it was intended, the centre lane is useful as it allows people to turn without holding up the rest of the traffic, and allows drivers to pull out and cross one lane at a time, and not two.
I use the centre lane as it was intended, and when I see people driving at speed up the centre lane, I sincerely hope that anyone pulling out into the lane can see the oncoming vehicle.
There is no need for this kind of behaviour and I am very disappointed to see that those setting the example, can’t even set a good one.
LA Clark
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