|
Originally Posted by searchingheaven
(Post 4017765)
Just shocking. |
Originally Posted by searchingheaven
(Post 4017765)
You should always cross behind a large vehicle. Always. |
Originally Posted by silversteed
(Post 4017911)
Unless you're walking right in front of the stopped vehicle and in the driver's blindspot, isn't it safer to cross the road in front of the stopped vehicle on an undivided road? IMHO, the pedestrian can be seen by the driver of the stopped vehicle as well as vehicles coming from the opposite direction. |
Originally Posted by silversteed
(Post 4017911)
Unless you're walking right in front of the stopped vehicle and in the driver's blind spot, isn't it safer to cross the road in front of the stopped vehicle on an undivided road? IMHO, the pedestrian can be seen by the driver of the stopped vehicle as well as vehicles coming from the opposite direction. |
Originally Posted by Horizon81
(Post 4017976)
I think the best way for pedestrians in India is to wait till a big vehicle has passed them before they attempt to cross. Even if you cross in front at a distance, you always have the risk of landing in front of an overtaking vehicle. |
Originally Posted by searchingheaven
(Post 4017985)
This is why we always have a retractable school bus crossing arm installed in school buses. |
Originally Posted by Horizon81
(Post 4017976)
I think the best way for pedestrians in India is to wait till a big vehicle has passed them before they attempt to cross. Even if you cross in front at a distance, you always have the risk of landing in front of an overtaking vehicle. Bus drivers, especially the private ones' main goal is to compete with other buses. They give very little attention to the road. |
Originally Posted by searchingheaven
(Post 4017985)
If you cross the road in front of a bus, i.e at point B, there is a chance that the car behind the bus will move out to pass the bus while it has stopped. And that is a potentially dangerous situation. |
Originally Posted by silversteed
(Post 4018112)
Agree that it's a potentially dangerous situation, but AFAIK, we're not supposed to pass a stopped school bus if it has the amber or red lights on. Traffic on the opposite lane also has to stop at least 20ft (IIRC) away from the school bus, even on a divided road. But in our Indian conditions, you're right, there's always the danger of a passing vehicle not able to see the pedestrian. Conditions are slightly different when it's a divided road in India. Then it makes sense to cross the road from behind the stopped bus, as there's only traffic coming from one direction to watch out for, until the median. |
Specially for school buses, there are very strict rules for drivers. When a school bus is stopped on the road and is displaying flashing amber lamps and/or the red STOP signal, the drivers of vehicles approaching the school bus from the front or from the rear have to stop before passing the bus and remain stopped until the bus begins to move or no longer has the red stop lamps activated. |
Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom
(Post 4018222)
Actually, the biggest point of all is to look before crossing the road. And for drivers, to look for signs of people who may not be looking. It is down to all of us all of the time to avoid causing or having accidents. Where children are concerned, there is an extra responsibility on drivers. |
the driver of the Innova lost control of the vehicle and rammed into the Taxi. Following which, it toppled on the road the Dzire crashed into the Innova. Speaking to the paper, Tukaram Thorat, Senior Police Inspector, Trombay traffic police said, “The driver of the taxi, Jaiswal, and the passenger, Vijay, died on the spot. We are still trying to identify the driver of the Innova, it was a Thane registered vehicle.” |
Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom
(Post 4017806)
And as a driver, I look out for people doing it. Fifty years later, I have not forgotten that lesson! |
Originally Posted by rohansachar
(Post 4018417)
So this happened today: |
Originally Posted by LoneRidder
(Post 4018684)
This is a very bad crash:Shockked: With Innova damaged that bad, and driver missing is a miracle. Unfortunate for the taxi driver and passenger. The taxi seems to be a Santro, not Dzire! |
Three people were killed and two injured after a speeding car collided with two vehicles, including a cab, on the Eastern Freeway on Tuesday morning.The accident occurred near Jijamata Nagar Junction, Chembur, barely 80 metres from the spot where last June corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, driving while drunk, hit a taxi, killing two. The dead are the speeding car's driver Abdul Hamid Sirva (48), and the cab's driver Nandlal Jaiswal (46) and passenger Vijay Kelkar (48). Sirva ran his family business of a mechanical engineering workshop in Thane, and lived in Yasmin Apartments in Mazgaon. He is survived by wife, three sons and aged parents. “Jaiswal and Kelkar died on the spot, with severe head injuries. But Sirva was moving. He was writhing in pain,“ said a Anoop Singh, a cabbie. Tuesday's accident on the Freeway , in volving three vehi cles, occurred at 9.27am. A car, an Innova, was heading north at 140kmph, far above the speed limit of 60kmph, when its driver, Hamid Sirva, lost control and hit the divider. The impact caused it to rise one and a half feet, and in this airborne state it hit an electric pole, which caused it to rise higher--almost 12 feet.Within the fraction of a second, it was on the other side of the divider, where it fell upside down on the cab, and had a head-on collision with a Dzire that was behind the cab. At the time of the accident, it was raining heavily . A source said a stretch along the divider was flooded, causing Sirva not to notice a pothole. He hit it, causing him to lose control of his vehicle. An officer of the RCF police station said, “It's too early to say what exactly happened. We have called experts to analyse the sequence of events and to understand what may have led the Innova's driver to lose control.“ DCP (Zone VI) Shahaji Umap said the police are awaiting Sirva's post mortem report to see if he was under the influence of alcohol, though prima facie this has been ruled out. The Dzire's occupants received minor injuries: Mahesh Kuklekar (38) and his friend Ajay Jadhav (33), both residents of Vashi, were treated at Shatabdi Hospital, Chembur, and allowed to leave. Immediately after the accident, several motorists and taxi drivers stopped their vehi cles and rushed to the spot to help the victims. But the impact of the first collision was such that the Innova and the cab were mangled. The fire brigade had to be called, and they had a hard time extricating the bodies. A source said firefighters and the police had reached the spot within 10 minutes.With the help of a towing van, the Innova and the cab were taken about a kilometre away , where, with the help of fabricators, the mangled steel was cut to remove the bodies. The three victims were moved to Shatabdi, where they were declared dead before admission. All bodies were taken to Sion Hospital for post-mortem examinations. The cab's driver Jaiswal, a resident of Vartak Nagar, Thane, is survived by wife and two school-going children. Kelkar, his passenger, lived in Cherai, Thane, and is survived by wife, a sales tax officer, and two school-going daughters. He was a senior coordinator with World Trade Centre, Cuffe Parade. Because of the accident, which occurred during the morning rush hour, traffic on both arms of the Freeway came to a standstill. The police had a difficult time controlling curious onlookers, who stopped their vehicles and got out to click pictures of the scene and post on social networking apps.It took two hours for traffic to return to normalcy |
All times are GMT +5.5. The time now is 03:24. | |