One person died and another was hospitalised early Wednesday morning after a one-car wreck in the vicinity of the Esterley Tibbetts Highway and Foster’s Food Fair.
According to Royal Cayman Islands Police, the wreck occurred just before 12.30am Wednesday and it was believed the silver Honda Civic hatchback vehicle involved veered off the road south of Fosters Food Fair and ended up in the parking lot.
The vehicle was traveling in the north-bound lanes of the Esterley Tibbetts when police said it appeared the car “went out of control”.
Police were still taking measurements from the collision after dawn on the Esterley between the Strand and Snug Harbour Drive. Some side streets – as well as the north-bound lanes of the highway – were blocked in that area.
It was believed that no other vehicles were involved in the wreck.
The Honda’s driver, a 19-year-old, was pronounced dead at the Cayman Islands hospital. His passenger, an unidentified woman, was admitted to hospital with what police said were non-life threatening injuries.
The driver was identified as Jaime O’Bryan Evans by family members.
His death marks the fourth fatality to occur on Cayman Islands Roads this year.
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This crash and others from these model of cars, are from attitudes of these kids.
They rice up these asian cars. Then think they are riding a high performance vehicle. So they often speed far to fast, for the car’s own performance rating, and the drivers saftey.
Listen, you can put on farty pipes that you think, makes it sound like you have a v8 instead of a 4 cylindar engine (when really it just sounds like your car has a bad case of gas), put racing tires on the cars, soup up the engine with nitrous oxide or those speakers that give you a compression sound, and lower your hydundai until it’s 1 inch from the ground.
But at the end of the day kids, you are still driving a hyundai. Not a sports car.
And all too often, you only find that out after sliding off the road at 80 miles an hour.
Just to correct you Mr.Big Berd… This is a Honda* not a Hyundai (it says that in the article). Also critiquing about how these young adults* not kids fix up a car of their own is none your business and is also irrelevant to what happened. Actually if you were to sit and see these young men on an afternoon go and take apart and put back together these cars you may actually be proud of what they are all capable of. What you need to be criticizing and paying attention to isn’t about how their car looks or sounds but how they got the mentality that they are invincible. Why is it that so many young men are dying and how to fix it…
P.S.
Use some constructive criticism the next time please and the young man that died today was a very close friend of mine and i took your comment not only disrespectful but ignorant.
Well incase you missed what I was trying to say. Maybe these young adults feel invincible because they are souping up these cars? And they may think they are driving sports cars. Hence why the obvious high rate of speed in this fatality.
Whatcha think? Maybe, sorta?
Just thinking out loud here.
The hyundai was an example. As I said in the next paragraph asian cars. EI. honda, hyundai, ect. Does it matter exactly what brand? Seriously?!
Tell us you haven’t seen these cars all over the road and on more than one occasion. The drivers of these cars, driving…irresponsibly.
@big berd Were you in the car? Do you know exactly what happened? Do you know what factors played what part in this? NO. We can only look at what happened and assume. Some of these boys make a living from that mentality and get jobs in garages and what not keeping them off the streets committing crimes. Stop the foolishness and let the boy rest in peace.
I think all of you need to stop it, someone is dead, we all have Skeleton in our closet, only and only
GOD IS THE JUDGE,it could be one of us. Go to church and pray for forgivenes.
Well this will always be a hot topic, I myself am a young Caymanian and yes I do own one of these infamous Honda sports cars. What you old folks have to understand is that we the younger generation are only human also and like you we do make mistakes. I don’t agree that We think we are invincible in these cars and Yes, I do agree that one of our ( young Caymanian males) hobbies are sports cars, building them, tuning (or what you guys call souping them up which should really be suping ). Don’t knock it before you understand it, a lot of my peers do have great talent in the automotive industry, I think this is something to embrace and stop sunning it. It does keep a lot of the younger guys out of trouble.
It’s really an inevitable process because it is the same thing that was going on back in your day. It’s just that you guys had Big America muscle cars I’ve heard stories about horrible car accidents back in those days. So stop being close minded to what’s going on, it’s the same thing but it is sad that it is at the cost of some of my peers’ lives but hey it’s happens. You old folks need to realize that this is my day not your day. Have you see the cost of insurance these days, gas or the prices of land? While greedy politicians continue to sell out our birth right to the highest bidder, why don’t you give us answers or instead making things harder why don’t you help to make things better. What else should us as young Caymanian males do in this age for recreation ? I wish I could get insurance or buy a nice range rover but it all takes time.
I drive one of these cars too because they are cheap and cheerful and mostly old, not safely fast or sporty or flash.
How many of these guys recognise that there are other people on the roads too, all at risk.
You can see them everyday but who stops them from driving like that, day or night? What are the penalties? Sad for the family and friends.