Mistake and no mistake..and the percentages
By vanny
@vandana7 (98695)
India
June 23, 2018 9:14am CST
Difficult to be a judge, eh...?
In India driving is tough...let me tell you. You need to be have super reflexes and always ..ALWAYS anticipate somebody is going to break the rules either from the left, or the right, or from behind or front, or the lanes and then there are pedestrians who appear from nowhere, and cats, and dogs and cows and there is snarling traffic, and still timeline / schedules where you need to be punctual.
You'd say 90 percent of people manage. But they all must have had a few experiences in their life they would like to forget.
Did I forget the potholes, and oh the open drains. Yeah..those too that are not visible during rains. And of course the hawkers ..they encroach the area that is for pedestrians forcing pedestrians on to the road, narrowing them down. And the auto drivers, keep looking for customers driving at less than 20 km per hour ...on a road that requires people to drive at 40 kms to prevent traffic jams, and the unauthorized parking of vehicles on road. Yeah all that is India.
Visibility is often a suspect...so night driving is best avoided.
So if a person accidentally rides over the pavement..trying to avoid a stray dog or cat or cow, in the process killing somebody would you say he was careless?
Mind you the dog decided to cross the road suddenly. He was not in the human visibility range when the car was 30 feet away, and so the foot on the accelerator remained there, letting the vehicle cruise at 60 km per hour. Even when the leg went off the accelerator, there was no way the dog could have been avoided so the steering was called in to rescue only to climb the pavement, where homeless were sleeping.
Sounds like Salman Khan story, but I believe people should not be sleeping on pavements. I believe dogs and other animals should not be on roads. I believe pedestrians should not take liberties of crossing road wherever they feel like and use zebra crossings. If they do so, the driver of the vehicle should not be penalized for anything that happens to them.
I do believe a lot, but then I feel if a driver does err, the judge must consider many things about traffic rules and traffic infrastructure that are not available to Indians who drive vehicles. While the judge should not condone the driver, the punishment should be lower because of the constraints.
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6 responses
@ptrikha_2 (45418)
• India
23 Jun 18
@vandana7 I think it is South Asian Genetic predisposition.
May be the Indus Valley people had better senses.
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@ptrikha_2 (45418)
• India
24 Jun 18
@vandana7 well we still can do many things provided that we look towards each other as friends than enemies in the real life.
And political class starts working for the public welfare rather than their own welfare!
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@Namelesss (3368)
• United States
23 Jun 18
Sounds like a nightmare driving in India. I also believe it is the pedestrians responsibility as well as the driver to pay attention and watch what they are doing.
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@vandana7 (98695)
• India
23 Jun 18
It is. Trust me. I only drive on roads that have less traffic. Rest of the time, it is dad, or paid driver. I am prepared to pay for a driver rather than get tense driving.
30-year-old Prashant Pashankar sustained serious head injuries after he was dragged 50 metres when he lost control of his bike while trying to avoid a pothole i
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@ptrikha_2 (45418)
• India
23 Jun 18
@vandana7 are driving conditions in Hyderabad worse than in Delhi NCR?
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@ptrikha_2 (45418)
• India
24 Jun 18
@vandana7 oh then that would be a nightmare but driving in the capital is terrible too.
Some bus drivers too drive dangerously.
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@ptrikha_2 (45418)
• India
23 Jun 18
Sometimes when driving I feel that I could have done better with a special 360 degrees rotating view!
The worst on the road are the wrong side drivers, many of whom seem to be ignorant of something like right side or wrong side. And the auto drivers only want to get ahead as if they are running an already late running Shatabdi or Rajdhani!
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
23 Jun 18
This kind of traffic is really hard to drive. The transportation department should take some measures.
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
23 Jun 18
okay, so a person was driving and a dog ran out, so the person swerved off the road and ran over homeless people who were sleeping there?
Its tragic.
I really love dogs and animals and hate saying its okay to kill them... but even as a non-driver, I know legally here in america you are suppose to run over the wild life and avoid crashing into cars on either side of you when trying to avoid the animal.
Here we have major issues of deer in the road. You can't really swerve to avoid them because you can find yourself in a ditch or a ravine and the later will kill driver + passengers.
Its why I really like the areas that have added under the road animal crossings or over the road ones. It helps give animals safe places to travel and though not all animals use them, some do.
We also don't drive 60 mph! most turns are at max 20 - 25 mph so its a lot easier to see animals and stop before its needed to turn away.
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@asswclown (507)
• United Kingdom
23 Jun 18
Well, I can't picture clearly about those conditions in your country. It's better not to own a car there.
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@ptrikha_2 (45418)
• India
23 Jun 18
@vandana7 sometimes pedestrians too are not safe. Some drivers believe in formula 1 racing even on sector or other non-main roads.
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