There's nothing wrong with modifying vehicles if you do it right but I've seen cars so low they couldn't make it round the Butterfield Roundabout because the wheels kept hitting the fenders – that's something the police can see and deal with. This isn't about pre-anything cars, it's about proper vehicle inspections, realistic legislation to control modifications including mandatory independant engineering inspections on modified cars to validate insurance cover, education programmes involving people like the Cayman Islands Hot Rod Association and RCIPS doing their job by pulling clearly dangerously modified cars off the road before crashes like this happen.
If you do both you create a death trap. It may look real cool but it's going to kill you sooner or later. If you swap 14" wheels with 70 profile tyres for 16"/17"/18" wheels with wide 50/45/40 profile tyres and don't change anything else you get pretty much the same result but for slightly different reasons. If you drop the suspension 2" all round but retain the stock shocks and hit a pothole (been there, done it) everything bottoms out and then bounces back so your car goes wherever the heck it feels like.
What people don't realise is how simple mods change a fairly benign car into something that will turn round and bite them on local roads. It's not the first modified car to be involved in a fatality and the problem is that when you start messing with any factory-spec car the carefully engineered handling and braking characteristics go out of the window. If you check out the photos it was a modified (big exhaust, alloys, low profile tyres, possibly lowered) Honda and it took a massive side impact, which even a current model would have been hard pushed to survive. The man is the seventh person to die on the roads in Cayman this year and comes just three weeks after a fatal crash on Esterley Tibbets Highway.Īnyone with information in relation to the accident may contact the Traffic Management at 946-6254. The RCIPS Traffic Management issued an advisory that commuters may be delayed until around 7:30am as the police continue investigations into the cause of the fatal crash. Once freed, the man was taken to George Town hospital where he was pronounced dead at about 3:10am. Emergency services attended the scene, including the Fire Department, medics and police, as the man was trapped in the car. Police confirmed this morning (23 December) that at about 1:52am Richard Alutaya Rivera of East End, who was driving a Honda Civic on Shamrock Road in the direction of his home, appeared to lose control of his vehicle, which skidded off the road and collided with a tree. (CNS): A 39-year-old man was killed in the early hours of Friday morning after the car he was driving smashed into a tree.
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