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Guys, many of us do not have a clue about stuff like that. I could not drift or do a handrake turn to save my life (Literally. It would not be part of my emergency instinct to grab the handbrake except in the case of brake failure). Best we don't try. At least, not on public roads.

Those who have a clue, through rally, stunt, skid-track, etc training can do it.

An aside...

One of my driving gurus, in my twenties, was a female friend who used to let me practice, driving her Mini. One day, we were watching Starsky and Hutch (lots of hairy-scary car chases) on the TV.

Me, joking: Can you teach me to drive like that.

She: I'm not sure that I can still drive like that.

Me: What? You mean you could?

She: Oh yes... I had a relative who was in charge of a police-training centre and I got to use their skid rink

I wish my driving skills did extend to that sort of thing. But no, they don't. And next time you see an ordinary-looking woman in a small car, best not challenge her to a race. She just might surprise you! ;)

I can tell you for sure it is a must have training as emergencies can arise anytime but more important is being cool and not get panicked. The driver training must include on hands experience on how the car behaves when you do something that you normally don't. And more Important all cars are different. What I can do in abarth is unthinkable for city ☺. I have only learnt to drive by always pushing the wheels I rode right from tricycle days.

Remember the C-Class hit & run case? Driver to be tried as an adult as his birthday was just 4 days away.

Full Times of India Article

Thoppur ghats is a 4 lane stretch while the Krishnagiri ghats is a 6 lane one. Even when the Krishnagiri ghats was a 4 lane road, I always felt the Thoppur ghats to be highly accident prone due to the curvy nature of the road. Plus enroute we have to cross a bridge that has claimed quite a many lives. Earlier on the Thoppur ghats we had 8 speed breakers marked 1/8, 2/8 etc... While driving back in 2011 on this stretch, the road around the speed breaker region was in a awful condition that I was not able to hold the steering properly as the tyre kept slipping on the tar lump.

I met with a strange incident today. You may call it accident if you mean the literal meaning of accident.

Today while I alongwith my family was returning from our Saturday outing trip when due to bad lighting and some part of my "Bad Driving" I kissed a pothole. The speed of the vehicle must be somewhere around 60kmph at the time of impact. Just after the impact I felt a strange drifting of my car towards left side. And thats when I realized that the pot hole has done its damage. I pulled over to the side and got down.

To my horror, both of my left side wheel had got ruptured and were flat. They were stock Bridgestone B250 tyres. Now I was in confusion as to how to reach back home.

Luckily, in the organization I work, the people live together inside one complex and everyone is happy to extend help at any time. I called up one of my friend who had Verna for taking spare tyre as loan from him for which he readily agreed.

However, the story does not end here. The main part is what I am going to post now:

Friend had new Verna, the one which came with 2 headrest at back, the one with Non-alloy spare tyre. During the process of fixing the tyre, I realized that the nut provided for my all alloy wheels will not fit for the non-alloy version. The nut was short and the tyre would have wobbled if I had used the same nut. This is when I realized that how small changes by companies can bring such a big change for consumers.

Somehow, I got a contact of one more colleague and got the alloy tyre from him.

After all the fixing when I got into the car, the car wouldn't start. Reason being that since it was complete dark road, I was using the headlight as source of light and the headlight had drained out the battery.

Somehow got hold of few villagers and got them to push the car and used gear-clutch technique to start.

I wonder how long it will last as the court will most likely throw out the reason of his 18th birthday being just four days away from the accident. By law he was a minor when the accident occurred and that's how he should be tried.

However it also underscores the legal loopholes. I believe the motor vehicles act and other related laws should be amended to this effect.

The privilege of possessing a driving licence can be obtained only after completing 18 years. Therefore any breach of law as driver of a vehicle should be tried as if the driver was 18 years and above. This might be legally tenable.

These days almost every car come with steel rims for spare tyre and some times even with different tyre size but I never thought about this nut issue. Very strange.

Recently my cousin faced a similar issue in his Vento, the spare tyre was with steel rims with different tyre size. He got a cut in the tyre on the highway and had to change the spare tyre, he mentioned about wobbling and unbalanced ride. Luckily within 15kms they found a tyre shop and replaced the tyre.

Mumbai-Pune Expressway accident: At least 17 dead after luxury bus crashes into two cars. :Shockked:

http://indianexpress.com/article/ind...o-car-2835419/

I read about the accident on TOI. But not sure why the Swift and innova were stationary on the highway

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c.../52597810.cms?

Is that really a luxury bus? the roof does not look like a Scannia / Volvo or Mercedes, but rather a bus building job. And this looks like a sleeper bus too. Feel sad for all the innocent lives lost in this mishap :(

Express article has the reason.

Yes, you are right!
It looks more of like Sutlej or something like that. People probably mistook it for Volvo from the very Volvo like head lamps. Also, going by the ground clearance, I'm pretty sure it is not a Volvo.

Feel sorry for the victims.

Another mishap of the reckless driving culture. I guess it will take one such accident each month before the toll operator and the traffic police are brought to account for negligence to enforce traffic rules and discipline on the expressway.

It is incredible how many lives are lost in India, families destroyed, children orphaned, due to lack of seemingly basic laws like no stopping on the sides of the highway or working under run bars on trucks. As a population we dont seem to care either because we never ask this from our politicians. I guess our belief on fate is one of the reason... it was my day to die. No dude, your brakes do not work!

The insides of the bus in the last pic is very horrifying. Due to the impact after hitting the ditch, all the seats on the right side have been ripped off their anchors from the floor of the bus. The seats along with the passengers would have piled up in front. A real bad and dangerously constructed bus body.