Vehicle slams into concrete wall @ Duff’s Bottom
It is unclear how the driver of this vehicle lost control and slammed into this concrete wall at Duff's Bottom, Tortola, today, April 1, 2017. Photo: VINO
Three persons were in the vehicle involved in the accident. Photo: VINO
The vehicle sustained frontal damages, including a shattered windscreen. Photo: VINO
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- A least one person appeared to have suffered injuries after a vehicle slammed into a concrete wall of a home at Duff’s Bottom, Tortola, minutes ago, April 1, 2017.
The incident took place around 10:30 PM.
It is unclear how a red Suzuki, with number plate PG 652, careened into a dwelling house at the corner adjacent to a car wash in Duff’s Bottom.
Three persons, including the driver, were in the vehicle, which damages included a shattered windscreen.
One of the persons in the vehicle was observed with blood stains on his shirt.
Police and ambulance have arrived at the scene of the accident.
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25 Responses to “Vehicle slams into concrete wall @ Duff’s Bottom”
So if you happen to pass my house and see a big beautiful black cat with yellow eyes sitting in the window what would you do? Freak out and run? My husband is making a cut out of a cat painted black with red eyes to put on the front gate holding a sign that says DOGS GUARD BUT, CATS SEES.
People fly over speed bumps,speed before and after speed bumps. What we need is proper raids to drive on.
Furthermore, by having our steering wheels on the left pedestrians are often endangered, especially when getting in and out of cars in traffic. Quite often I see the buses picking up and dropping off people who have to get in or out the bus on the street side of the car. This is very dangerous and unconventional since buses should actually land passengers on the sidewalk. By walking into traffic to get into a bus pedestrians become at risk for being hit by a car in the second lane.
If really want to talk road safety, the government should address the steering wheel handiness and bus safety in paricular. Either the law should be change to accommodate the fact that most cars here are American imports therefore we should drive on the right like Americans because that's how the car was meant to be driven or left-hand cars should be outlawed because they really are a hazard. The public transport system is abysmal. There are no definite bus stops, the bus drivers pick up and let off people wherever they want, the buses come whenever they want and drive wherever they want, some taxi drivers try to bus people when things are slow when they don't have the liscense to do so and there is no standard tariff for the buses so prices vary from driver to driver.
There are a whole host of problems I see drivers in the BVI doing. I wonder if there is even a test for one to pass so don't just blame the Santo and down island people. Some people don't even know the speed limit in town is 20 mph, 10 near a school zone and 40 everywhere else. People are often overtaking cars and they aren't heading in the direction of the hospital, police station or fire station so what's the emergency? Some people even try to overtake the ambulance. Then there are the people who won't get off their phones despite being told a million times how dangerous it is to be in your phone while driving. What is so important for you to say that you would risk your life and others to say? Can it not wait? The people who park anywhere they like even in the middle of the street, holding up traffic and boxing people in. The people who stop in the middle of a one way street (Main Street) to have a conversation with a pedestrian rather than parking on the side. The people who drive with broken tail light or just keep them on all the time. The people who don't indicate. The people who run the light trying to beat it. The people who think the sidewalk is an extension of the road and the crosswalk is just for decoration. The scooters that bob and weave through traffic as though they are a law unto themselves. The people who hitch-hike and cross the road at the most dangerous points.
It's like no one knows the rules of the road or just don't understand that they're there to protect everyone, and not to give Supa cop his commission. Maybe road safety should be taught in school. Until those problems are address a speed bump will do basically nothing. Somehow drivers, especially young ones and new ones aren't getting it in their heads that cars hold the power of life and death, not just theirs but everyone else in their vicinity so they need to be vigilant and respectful of one another on the road.