Thursday, February 24, 2022
AN INFANT is dead following a traffic accident in New Providence yesterday.
Police said they received reports of the accident shortly before 9am, which occurred at the intersection of Prince Charles Drive and Soldier Road.
On the arrival of Traffic Accident Investigators, it was discovered the incident was a three-car collision. The vehicles involved were a silver coloured Honda Civic, a burgundy 2011 Suzuki Solio van and a white Suzuki Swift, which had left the scene before officers arrived.
Further investigations revealed the occupants of the Burgundy coloured van who were a man, woman and male infant were injured.
They were taken to hospital for further medical attention.
However, the infant died of his injuries.
Police said investigations are ongoing.
Comments
ForeverDreamer says...
This is so sad. I saw the result of the collision that morning with some Prince Charles traffic that was unusual for the time. When I approached the soldier road intersection, I noted the burgundy vehicle was on it's side and one other car having front damage behind the burgundy vehicle.
I hope the vehicle that left has the moral reason to turn themselves in so the injured parties can have closure on how to move forward. But given their hit and run one may assume the person was either not insurance, vehicle was not licensed or the drivers was not licensed.
We should have some policy or fund for victims of these hit&run or uninsured/unlicensed issued when they at least are the cause if that's what happened in this case. We can prosecute the person at fault while also providing some care for these victims. Insurance companies' solution to some of these previous incidents seems a bit too self serving mentioning the government should improve the penalties and criminal penalties for being uninsured while driving. If the insurance companies cared perhaps they would be willing to partially fund this program with a small percentage of gains beyond costs for at least auto incidents.
The financials of one of the large providers being Colina unfortunately does not drill down insurance performance beyond Life, Health and Other disallowing public analysis for the profitability of auto insurance to suggest a fair contribution. It is also fair to note the Other insurance category in the 2020 audited financials do have the smallest share of the Net Income being 1.8mil which is only 8.74% of total insurance net income. So there is some limitations and probably aversion to decreasing that bottom line further, but just wanted to float an idea rather than simply screaming at the government/police to do better as if it's the only possible solution.
Posted 24 February 2022, 2:35 p.m. Suggest removal
themessenger says...
The other unfortunate thing is that Bahamians love to drive around with their infants bouncing all over the car and unrestrained in a car seat and usually end up being crushed between the steering wheel and their negligent parent or ejected from the vehicle with the same result.
Why is this sort of thing not enforced vigorously?
Posted 24 February 2022, 7:04 p.m. Suggest removal
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