Topic: traffic accidents
‘Hell on wheels’: Lawmakers support reducing speed limits
Cayman's legislators have unanimously voted for government to consider reducing speed limits and increasing traffic fines in a bid to curb rising road fatalities and daily collisions.
Dangerous drivers could be hit with stricter fines, demerit points
Traffic incidents are on the rise, and government is considering how best to tackle the problem, including harsher penalties.
Ebanks vows action on excessive speeding in Red Bay and Prospect
Infrastructure Minister Jay Ebanks has vowed to rally his National Road Authority troops to tour the Red Bay and Prospect constituencies this week in a bid to address speeding concerns.
56 crashes a week as police re-examine speeding, DUI enforcement
With police attending an average of 56 car crashes a week in 2022, the RCIPS admits it is having to re-examine how to enforce road traffic safety in Cayman.
Motorcyclist hurt in collision
A motorcyclist has been hospitalised with serious, but non-life threatening injuries after he collided with an SUV in George Town on Wednesday afternoon.
Man killed in fatal crash at roundabout
A man died and a woman was seriously injured in a single-vehicle accident at the Cost-U-Less roundabout on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway early Thursday morning.
Accident slows traffic at Grand Harbour
Police are on scene at an accident at the roundabout at Grand Harbour where a heavy machinery vehicle has toppled over.
Driver critically injured in early-morning crash
A man suffered life-threatening injuries after his car crashed into a wall on West Bay Road, near Public Beach, around 4am Saturday morning.
EDITORIAL: Word on the street: Pedestrians beware – and be careful
While everyone, including pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikers, and car and truck drivers, has a responsibility to “share the road,” the reality is that burden is not shared equally. In any contest between a moving vehicle and the human body, steel always prevails.
The winner
Today's editorial cartoon
EDITORIAL – The origin of Cayman’s traffic accidents: Our ‘big bang’ theory
Ranging from simple fender benders to tragic fatal accidents, it seems that Cayman’s problems with collisions, wrecks and smashups date back to shortly after the country’s first automobile — a 1905 Cadillac — rolled off a boat into George Town 104 years ago.
