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![]() If kids can't learn basic road safety in enclosed spaces, how will they behave on open roads. ![]() | |
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Last edited by Rehaan : 9th February 2017 at 16:37. Reason: Removing quote, since that's been moved to the international accidents thread. :) | |
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1) In India, if there is an obstacle infront, instead of applying brakes people just abruptly change lane. This is exactly what happens when people are lazy to apply brakes. One should always leave enough room - sideways and front/back as a buffer. Unfortunately gaps are often filled by smaller vehicles. 2) There are no lanes painted on the road. People are moving like animals in a jungle. Last edited by Jaggu : 9th February 2017 at 18:26. Reason: Please avoid Quoting Youtube video links for replies. Thanks. |
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The lady who caused it all coolly walks away... Last edited by Jaggu : 9th February 2017 at 18:26. Reason: Please avoid Quoting Youtube video links for replies. Thanks. |
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![]() Nowadays I've got the habit of honking just before entering the gate and just before making the right turn, but seems people have issues with that as well ![]() | |
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| ![]() The issue about safety inside the apartment has been lingering in my mind for a while. we have a play area and the children ride their cycles on the drive way, as the play area isn't enough for all of them. Now, everyone who resides there know that there are children riding their cycles on the drive way, yet I see some people speeding their cars as they approach their parking lot. I mean, how many seconds will you lose by crawling to your parking lot and not sliding and slamming your brakes into it? And the sad part of all this is, most of the people who do this antics have their own kids cycling inside the complex. Kids will be kids, but that shouldn't stop us from teaching them basic safety parameters. Having said this, the benefit of doubt should always go with the kids and not the racing adults, who always seem to be in a hurry only to be late everywhere. |
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If children are about or nearby, drive slowly. If they are on the road or roadside, drive at walking pace or less, at which hitting the brake gives an almost instant stop. Isn't it obvious? | |
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No words really. The woman is crossing at a pace expecting the traffic to slow down or stop for her, which is absolutely fine. And I am sure the traffic that is coming towards her is honking while maintaining the same speeds expecting her to fly away resulting in such a dramatic situation. Quote:
That's not all, the architects actually planned the driveways slightly narrow with regular protrusions from both sides as trees and shrubs that intentionally takes away the feel of it being a comfortable place to speed in. Results, even Olas and Ubers maintain a low speed. | |
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My Dad's trick driving question: "When does a pedestrian have right of way?" after exhausting my knowledge of the British Highway Code, his answer: "Always: you are not allowed to run over them. These guys chose to run over each other, which is pretty much as bad. If it is too much to slow down for a soft thing made of flesh and blood, then it is time to reminded that we are also soft things also made of flesh and blood. | ||
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She is seen clearly crossing over a random stretch, not a zebra crossing (yes, I know people will laugh reading this because in our "developing" country spotting an actual zebra is more of a possibility than a zebra crossing). Yet she should've way more patient, crossed after the completely occupied lane traffic had passed & ensured that those who were coming from front see her from a distance by a hand wave. I NEVER cross when all the lanes are occupied because the motorists in India have myopic glaucoma where they just focus on the vehicles to the side and how to overtake them and anything more than 2 inches away is a blur. In a way both the motorists and jaywalkers are in fault, since nonchalance and outright hostility & anarchy basically summarises our roads, its a case of the seemingly unstoppable force and the seemingly immovable object. American laws of jaywalking MUST be brought here ASAP, I don't mind a Rs.10,000/- penalty to these harbingers of doom. Whenever I'm on the road I always mutter about America and how nice traffic rules are over there, I know Lady Liberty isn't accepting the "tired, poor & huddled masses yearning to breathe free" anymore, but I guess my love affair with her continues from a distance. | |
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https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/de...k/right_of_way It repeatedly says "yield to the pedestrian". Maybe she was jaywalking, maybe she is hearing impaired, maybe she is mentally unstable, maybe she was indeed taunting the drivers on that road. None of that is an excuse for crashing into her (which the driver here didn't do, I agree). I think the law India lacks is one that imposes IPC 304 on a variety of on-road offences. | |
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