Royal Cayman Islands Police Service officers arrested four drivers on suspicion of DUI over the weekend, including one person with a blood-alcohol level of 0.264%.
This is well over double the legal limit of 0.1%.
In a press release, police also revealed they had attended two dozen collisions over the weekend, with two people being hospitalised with serious injuries following a crash in the early hours of Saturday morning in Savannah.
There were also 10 tickets issued for speeding, 16 for using a mobile phone while driving and 13 for excessive tint.
It comes as police continue their road safety efforts under the ‘Operation Quaker’ campaign, prioritising tackling excessive speed and drunk driving across the Islands’ roads.
According to the release, the aim is “to reduce the occurrence of serious and fatal collisions on the roadways as well as enforce other road safety rules such as not using mobile phones while driving and to not have excessive tint”.
The campaign will bring an increase in spontaneous vehicular checkpoints, the release states, with a particular focus over the weekends.
Police ask drivers to practise good driving habits and encourage other road-users to do the same.
Police say Operation Quaker will continue until the end of the year, as part of the holiday road safety campaign.
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These numbers are pathetic.
Everyone knows that there is miserable enforcement of road traffic laws, and that is why 90% of drivers are speeding, jumping lights, DUI and are a threat to law abiding drivers.
“10 tickets issued for speeding, 16 for using a mobile phone”
There are far more people speeding than using mobile phones so the numbers should be different. Perhaps a police officer is resistant to write a speeding ticket due to the high cost but something should be done to punish unsafe driving acts.
Maybe cut the fees by 1/3 for the first offence, pay 2/3rds for the second offence and full price for any violation there after in a two year period. This way the police can still write tickets but the repeat offender is punished harsher than the person that was in a rush but and was not being considerate.