[BenjiRoss]

This accident in Kerala this month brings to light many of the points discussed about overtaking in the last few posts - ego, unplanned, no anticipation, never in control, etc. With such a wide road I wonder why the truck chose to overtake like this and then being unable to avoid crashing into the bike.

https://youtu.be/6CVHvtcwOBk

The biker appears to be injured and once again I cringe at attempts to lift him.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by BenjiRoss

With such a wide road I wonder why the truck chose to overtake like this and then being unable to avoid crashing into the bike.

His intention seems to be more like ramming the opposite-side houses than overtaking. Poor guy on the bike doesn't seem to have had much of a chance.

[Zed]

Originally Posted by arighna.dutta

From,
a driver - feeling low on Bangalore roads.

I can relate to your post. As a defensive driver i am often told, during my visits to India, that I drive too slow (when I reduce speed in built up areas and intersections), that I do not know how to overtake (if I wait for oncoming traffic), when I don’t use the horn or do yield at a pedestrian crossings. I could go on. But I continue being a defensive driver because it’s the right thing to do. And so should you.
And the same folks ask me to slow down when I’m on the autobahn at 160 kmph, driving slower than usual for the sake of the visitors I’m chauffeuring !

[Sarvodaya]

Ego Factor, Disaster waiting to happen, Stupidity, whatever you wish to call

https://www.facebook.com/CarToq/vide...wMDc4MzUxMTE5/

[SnS_12]

On our way to Dahanu this morning at 6:49 saw this just after the Mira Bhyander Flyover at the Junction. Seems a tempo guy was crossing at the junction which led to this.

[Rajeev1]

Yesterday evening around 8:30pm, there was a multi vehicle pile up on Bellary Road in the lane heading to the City from the Airport. I could see at least 3 cars involved - an old Honda City (Dolphin shape) ;Swift Dzire cab and a Honda Jazz. Looked like high speed lane changing gone bad and the Honda City had almost jumped into the opposite lane, getting stuck on the median in the process.

No pics of the scene which resulted in a long jam on both sides. As I was waiting for the traffic to clear and inching ahead, this orange color Vitara Brezza inches past me, minus the front right part of the car. The driver was driving normally and the vehicle looked to be behaving normally as well. Looks like there is a lot of vacant space under the Brezza bonnet.

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[luvDriving]

Originally Posted by arighna.dutta

The 'ego' factor is so huge on Indian roads. Be it any size of vehicle and not limited to just vehicles. The sense of yielding for others is not only absent, it is gone to the other end of the spectrum, where folks look for how to snatch away others right of the way, lane or a given space even if that may lead to an accident for the other.

These two lines sum up the situation on our roads completely. And this has extended to other aspects of life too but that discussion is in some other thread. If I begin to overtake someone then it is guaranteed that 9 times out of 10 the other person will speed up or try to get in my way somehow and then feign ignorance.

Originally Posted by BenjiRoss

The biker appears to be injured and once again I cringe at attempts to lift him.

The truck had no business driving in that manner and the driver should be held guilty of planned murder no less. On the other hand I think that had the scooter driver continued on his path instead of pulling to the left then he might have missed the truck. Not blaming him at all - just a possibility. He did the right thing thinking that the truck was going to carry on straight.

[shubhodeepdas@g]

Spotted this accident today morning and then again while returning on NICE road just after the exit that goes to Nayandahalli. Looks like something in front of the trailer braked hard resulting in a multi truck incident.

The first two images are of the tractor trailer and another truck directly in front of it with minor damage. We can see the undamaged trailer load bay being held up by a crane and probably being attached to the other tractor trailer cab seen in the second image.

The third image is of a truck that had gone off the road to the left with severe rear end damage. I suspect the major part of the contact involved this truck and the tractor trailer.

The last one is of the same cab while returning. Could not manage a closer shot.

[RoadMonkey]

Originally Posted by BenjiRoss

This accident in Kerala this month brings to light many of the points discussed about overtaking in the last few posts - ego, unplanned, no anticipation, never in control, etc. With such a wide road I wonder why the truck chose to overtake like this and then being unable to avoid crashing into the bike.

The biker appears to be injured and once again I cringe at attempts to lift him.

Am I wrong in feeling that the two wheeler driver also could've prevented this by driving not in the middle of the lane but at the extreme left, or the "two wheeler lane"? Maybe then the truck wouldn't have moved to his left trying to avoid hitting and he could've saved himself.

[McLaren Rulez]

Originally Posted by RoadMonkey

Am I wrong in feeling that the two wheeler driver also could've prevented this by driving not in the middle of the lane but at the extreme left, or the "two wheeler lane"? Maybe then the truck wouldn't have moved to his left trying to avoid hitting and he could've saved himself.

That's the road shoulder, not a "two wheeler lane"

[RoadMonkey]

Originally Posted by McLaren Rulez

That's the road shoulder, not a "two wheeler lane"

Hence the quotation marks. I didn't say it is, but I was always told to drive close to it on a two wheeler. So it kind of became that, and I've generally seen a good amount of two wheelers drive close to it, including in that video before the accident. Driving in the middle of the lane on a two wheeler in India can be very, very dangerous, for the reasons which are all too obvious here.

[GeneralJazz]

Originally Posted by BenjiRoss

This accident in Kerala this month brings to light many of the points discussed about overtaking in the last few posts - ego, unplanned, no anticipation, never in control, etc. .

Originally Posted by luvDriving

On the other hand I think that had the scooter driver continued on his path instead of pulling to the left then he might have missed the truck. Not blaming him at all - just a possibility. He did the right thing thinking that the truck was going to carry on straight.

A trend that is becoming too common now. When the truck is overtaking and sees an oncoming vehicle, the driver, instead of slowing down and merging back into his lane, tries to "adjust" and move to the edge of the opposite lane to let the oncoming vehicle pass. If you want to see more of this, drive the Kannur-Calicut stretch and you can see private buses try this all the time. It has even personally happened to me many times. As luvDriving mentioned, the rider could have stayed his course, but it is extremely confusing to the oncoming vehicle. Another place where one can observe this "phenomenon" is the Kuthiran climb, along the Coimbatore-Ernakulam highway.

[sagarpadaki]

Originally Posted by TSIVTEC

.Once in route to Palakkad in their Volvo B9R,I had to go to the front to ask the conductor where exactly it would stop,at that moment I was left in shock seeing the speedo stuck above 120kmh.

Aren't the Volvo buses ECU locked to 80 kmph after the fire incident hitting the curvlet a few years ago?

[treadmark]

Originally Posted by sagarpadaki

Aren't the Volvo buses ECU locked to 80 kmph after the fire incident hitting the curvlet a few years ago?

Yes, all these operators get it unlocked at the service center, but then I think the operator need to make a written request to do so.

Cheers

[JithinR]

Originally Posted by RoadMonkey

Am I wrong in feeling that the two wheeler driver also could've prevented this by driving not in the middle of the lane but at the extreme left, or the "two wheeler lane"?

Originally Posted by RoadMonkey

Driving in the middle of the lane on a two wheeler in India can be very, very dangerous, for the reasons which are all too obvious here.

Well, If he had done that then maybe this video might have been in close misses thread but members here would then be complaining about how these two wheelers guys have no lane discipline and act as if they own the road.