A two-car accident that sent one vehicle sliding into an electrical meter and circuit box Friday night forced the cancellation of several softball games at George Town’s Field of Dreams, and was threatening to postpone Little League practice sessions there as well.

Cayman Islands Little League President Jim Parham said adult co-ed softball league night games for Sunday and Monday had to be cancelled, but he said it was expected that an emergency generator would at least temporarily resolve power issues for Tuesday night’s games.

A power outage from the Friday evening car crash knocked out power in the entire Field of Dreams complex, including the field lights.

“Anything that has to do with lights cannot be played at this time,” Mr. Parham said Monday.

Additional night games scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were tentatively set, assuming the generator was successfully installed. 

A charity kickball tournament at the field on Saturday was held during the day, although the power outage knocked out the ice machine and the cooking facilities in the clubhouse.

“We finished just before sunset,” said Patrick Bourque, one of the tournament organisers. Typically, kickball tournament games have gone on into the evening hours.

In addition to the field lights, the accident cut electrical power to the clubhouse area, the Little League office, and to the home of the live-in groundskeeper on the property, which is just off Fairbanks Drive near the University College of the Cayman Islands campus.

Royal Cayman Islands Police said the crash was reported just before 8pm Friday. Officers said two cars collided causing one to veer off the road and into the transformer.

The accident occurred on the narrow road that leads to the back car park at the facility.

“They went through three sections of fence knocked over a palm tree and went into the transformer,” said Daryn Lansdell, facilities and programmes director for the Little League. “There were tire skid marks for 40 feet leading up to the transformer.”

One of the four young females who were in the car that struck the transformer was hospitalised Friday with minor injuries. No one had been arrested in connection with the crash, which some witnesses at the scene Friday night said appeared to have resulted from racing. Police didn’t confirm those claims.

The field’s management had also hired an electrician to repair damages to the circuit box and electrical meter.

The estimated cost for the generator was $500 per day.

Once the repairs are made by the electrician, a government inspector from the Planning Department will have to check the work as will representatives from the Caribbean Utilities Company.

“The problem is that you don’t want to power back up when there isn’t enough electricity (flowing through the circuits),” Mr. Parham said. “That’s when the wires start to burn out and actually can cause more damage.”

The Field of Dreams is owned by the Cayman Islands Little League Association, a non-profit organisation which oversees the maintenance and development of the property. It was unclear Monday whether the non-profit group would have to foot the bill for any electrical repairs, or if the responsible driver’s insurance would have to pay for it.

Mr. Parham said he expected that the transformer would not be fully repaired until Thursday at the earliest.

“That’s if everything falls into place and we don’t have any insurance issues,” he said.