Fourth fatal road victim of this year named
(CNS): Police have now confirmed that the 59-year-old woman killed in a road smash yesterday morning was Beverley Elaine Ramsay from Bodden Town. The mother of a serving police officer, Ramsey died at the scene of the accident on Esterley Tibbetts Highway Tuesday at around 6am. She was driving her Hyundai van, which was travelling towards West Bay, when she was hit by a Nissan box truck close to the AL Thomson roundabout. The driver of the truck, who was unhurt, remains in police custody while enquiries continue into what they suspect was a case of drinking and driving. Ramsey is the fourth victim to die on Cayman’s roads this year and one of many killed over the last few years on this stretch of road.
The fatal accident follows the death of 21-year-old Corey Seymour from Prospect in May, who was killed when the truck he was driving in the early hours of the morning collided with another truck near the San Sebastian complex on South Sound Road.
Before that a 33-year-old man was killed in the early hours of the morning of 19 April in another suspected drink-driving crash. The Honda Civic he was a passenger in traveling on the West Bay Road left the highway and overturned close to the Coral Stone Club. In that case the 28-year-old driver who was also injured in the smash was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and suspicion of DUI.
At the start of the year Herman Byrd from George Town died in the single vehicle smash on Sea View Road in East End on Friday 27 January. Police believed speed played a part when he lost control of his car, which was travelling west, as he negotiated the right-hand corner bend just past Cottage.
Category: Crime
Rest in peace Ms. Beverley. You were such a nice woman and often I have driven with you and you were always careful and never speeding. I do have one question for the press though, why is every report saying she is the mother of a serving cop. What does that have to do with the accident. Does that mean it will be handled differently. Ms. Beverley's son is a police office as well. So is it because he is a constable he is not being mentioned.
So Sad! My deepest sympathies to her family. Her daughter (Inspector Howell) always stressed to the public the importance of road safety and not to drink and drive . So sad she had to lose her mother this way.
May God see them through this difficult time.
Most comments here have a wrong focus. They are proposing to control or change human nature, human psychology. Even the strictest nuclear safety fails because of human error. Attempts could be made to mitigate consequences of road accidents causedby human error by employing the latest available road safety technology and appropriate road design. Installing dividers to prevent the catastrophic head-on crashes that almost always kill, is the fastest and cheapest solution for this stretch of the road.
There are all kind of drivers on the road-experienced and learners, young and old, sick and healthy, tired and alert, distracted and attentive, careless and thoughtful, calm and angry, in a hurry and on vacation, familiar with the area and visitors and those who just got to drive on the left side of a road. You can’t seriously expect all of them to drive with the same skill.
"You can’t seriously expect all of them to drive with the same skill." In fact you CAN expect a significant proportion to drive selfishly like crazed maniacs, you CAN expect a significant proportion to be drunk or high, and you CAN expect significant proportion to be drunk/high and driving like a maniac.
Have you ever heard of the inherent limitations of human information processing? This is a "first-principle" approach to accident investigation because it draws on knowledge of basic human psychological processes.Instead of looking at the driver from the outside, try to understand his/her mental processing and how itinteracts with the environment. Humans must rely on three fallible mental functions: perception, attention and memory. People driving down a highway are bombarded with a steady flow of information. Most of the information is visual input, the road itself, other vehicles, pedestrians, signs, the passing scenery, etc. Moreover, the driver may be processing other information sources such as auditory input (listening to the radio, talking on a cell phone, carrying on a conversation with another passenger), or internal input (remembering directions or planning what to make for dinner).
If the visual information flow is low, there may be enough mental resource to carry on all tasks simultaneously. But attentional demands may exceed supply when:
There may not be enough mental resource for all tasks. The driver then "attends" only a subset of the available information, which is used to make decisions and to respond. All other information, goes unnoticed or slips from memory.
Roads design should aim to prevent (serious) crashes, and where this is not
possible, to eliminate the risk of severe injury as much as possible. This approach seeks to prevent human error, and in doing so, mitigate the consequences by designing the traffic systems accordingly.
With the spees NRA works, it will be 3 more years before simple dividers would be installed. Just think Westbay crosswalk next to Fosters. Yah..they are still waiting for the right parts for a few months now. I am not even asking: who ordered the wrong parts? What a shame.
When NRA had a good Man MR Tomlinson and NO how to order Parts, Mac lets hem go, so may be Mac or Julie could pick up the Parts, on one of there next Trips. which will be soon.