How to minimize exposing ourselves to accidents? While you go through the newspapers, you could see reports on fatal road accidents everyday without fail. Most of them are two wheelers run through by a heavy vehicle or car, head on collisions, heavy vehicles getting into the opposite lane, ramming onto the smaller vehicles & many more Kerala Online - News - 3 MBA students killed in accident
I pick one of the recent accidents, where 3 college students were killed by a speeding lorry, rear ending onto the car, killing all the three in the spot. We don't know the exact picture, but by going through the news it seems, due to the fault of the lorry driver, 3 young lives were claimed
Majority parts of our roads are single lanes & we really do not have control if an oncoming vehicle rams into light vehicles in coming in the opposite directon.
I would like to share one of my experiences here. I was on a long trip to Kodai, traveling towards dindugal on a single lane road around 80-90 kms/hr, behind an ambassador. It was a hot summer afternoon with no soul in sight on the empty road & enough spaces in between. All of sudden, he slowed down drastically applying sudden brakes & I almost rammed him from behind before cutting to the right hand side. Luckily there was no vehicle in the opposite direction. Later I found that they were brokers trying to locate a land for showing to a prospective buyer. When one them identified at the last minute, just to alert the driver, he without even caring anything, slowed down drastically right in the middle of a highway. I learnt, how difficult its to stop, even with enough gap inbetween & even at those moderate speeds.
This can happen even in cities, but chances are high while we expose ourselves for higher durations (long drives)
I believe that reading experience of others itself, will create an alertness on how to handle specific situations & may come handy
On such long drives, will this thought occur to you? If yes, will you just leave it to your luck or take any precautions as you drive? If yes, please do write down those precautions
Edit: A different source says the students were racing on the highway, which resulted in accident.
Last edited by Surprise : 16th March 2009 at 08:49.
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