A horrible road accident in Chittor, Andhra Pradesh involving a Volvo V90 CC, a bike and a lorry. The car is registered in Bangalore, Karnataka and a family (from Kundanahalli) was travelling from KA to Tirupathi.
Source:
https://www.newindianexpress.com/sta...r-2190231.html
A careless irresponsible biker drove in the wrong direction and the car was allegedly over speeding and hit the bike and lost control. Unfortunately, the car rammed in to a parked lorry from behind and went underneath it. 3 out of 5 people in the car and the biker passed away on the spot. The other two passengers are severely injured. The parents and their son passed away and the daughter-in-law is in the hospital. I can't imagine what she would be going through. God bless her :(
Different media outlets have different stories. What's surprising is the under-run bar that is designed to stop cars from riding underneath the rear overhang of a heavy vehicle FAILED to do its job. It is clearly evident in the above picture that the car drove through the bar. Maybe the under-run bars have a crash speed limit that they can handle or is it case of a poor quality bar installed to comply with the law? A question to the experts, would the situation be any different if it was a XC90 and not a V90. Safety ratings aside, would a SUV be safer in such a situation and maybe improve the probability of saving the passengers?
I don’t know why the heavy vehicles are parked on the left side of the road when it’s clearly a no-parking zone. How inconsiderate
. What makes this worse is we generally tend to overtake from the left on two lane highways because these damn heavy vehicles drive at 50kmph in the right lane and they don’t budge when honked, leaving us no choice. As these national highways go through small villages, the locals drive as if the NH is their local village road. No regard to rules and speeding vehicles. If that biker would have followed rules and drove in the right direction, there would have been no accident and the family would have peacefully drove to Tirupathi and the biker would have gone home to his family.
This personally hit me because I lost my best friends brother in a very similar accident in Hyderabad’s ORR. His car hit a parked heavy vehicle and succumbed to his injuries on the spot along with three of his friends. There is only much the government can do, its' up to the people to drive with common sense. So many accidents due to wrong parking of heavy vehicles, i don't understand what the police are up to. The day the accident happens, the police are all over the place and are strict for a week and then they magically disappear and reappear only after there is another incident.
I've personally seen a lot of baby boomers disregard the law (not stereotyping or pointing fingers), even few of the elders in my extended family sometimes break rules such as driving on the wrong side of the road because the U-turn is a KM away or not buckling up. These mistakes might be insignificant when done, but they can cost you and other people their lives. Whats worse is even the millennial's, who are all educated and have traveled to many countries, are also becoming irresponsible lately. The common dialogue that everyone says 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do' When in India, drive like an Indian.
Hell, even my father tells me this sometimes when I'm in traffic when i still stick to the right lane to take a right or a U-turn, even though the right lane has traffic. I'm sure BHP'ians are responsible drivers, i wish all Indians are too.
Indians are such lovely people that show bucket loads of love to family and friend and are always ready to help. I don't understand what happens the second people get in to a car. All of a sudden people become inconsiderate and impatient. Everyone wants to reach their destination in record time everyday. It's like everyone has a medical emergency and they need to reach a hospital ASAP. The other day i had to visit another city for some personal work and i was driving at 100 (my usual speed on NH). This time i pushed to 120 at one stretch because i know my Fortuner can handle that speed and the roads were literally empty due to Covid. Surprise surprise, this Volkswagen Ameo TDI at 120 kmph drives next to me with a woman and her child on her lap in the front passenger seat and three others in the back and then all of a sudden floors it and shoots past me at 140kmph or something. He was out of my vision in less than 10 seconds. This car was followed by a Swift that wanted to overtake the Ameo. Unbelievable.
I know time is money, but at what cost?