Team-BHP - Accidents in India

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Originally Posted by BenjiRoss (Post 4727926)

What I meant was that Ambulance drivers were trained in how to drive when they had the right to break the usual rules ie.
- How to jump a red light safely

- How to overtake on the wrong lane,

- How to drive on the wrong side
- How to drive on sidewalks or non-road parts of the city
I'm not sure if all drivers need to learn these!!:)

Of course we wouldn't want our folks learning these. I was more stressing on the bold text of your earlier post I had quoted, which is more to do with vehicular control. :)

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Originally Posted by GutsyGibbon (Post 4727747)

If one approaches a main road from a cross road, he is expected to stop, check for traffic and move when it is safe. Everybody has a right to use our public roads appropriately.

Absolutely the very basics of driving - His license should be suspended!!

But the behavior of the Creta driver is pretty much how a large percentage of our compatriots drive . Needless hurry !!!

Red Signal count down reaches 10 , start moving and honking -WOW 10 seconds saved

Signal turns amber - no don't slow down - accelerate further and risk

You stop at pedestrian crossing I will honk till you move

You slow down to let another vehicle merge or join mad honking is assured

You take a turn indicating well in advance , I will try squeeze in through the inside

Joining main road from bye line - I have the right of the way - let others stop or swerve. I don't care

Getting stuck in traffic is so meh - I am special , I will drive on the wrong side , On top of the divider , footpath is reserved for me

One way ?No Entry ? Let's see who can stop me

I will do all these , but if a bigger vehicle hits me - You gotta have some sympathy for me

#trafficrant

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Originally Posted by JoeMichael (Post 4728107)

You stop at pedestrian crossing I will honk till you move

You slow down to let another vehicle merge or join mad honking is assured

It is incidents like this that make me want to fit a small air horn at the back of my car. Any idiot starts honking in his usual brainless mode, I'll also honk back using the horn. It'll at least provide some comedy though expectedly at the expense of some people's hearing.

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Originally Posted by ramzsys (Post 4725497)

EcoSport and indigo taxi, Coimbatore to Pollachi road. The ford is pointing in the wrong direction but the police said it was the indigo that came in the opposite lane.

Note that Ecosport's rear wheel is dislodged.

Looks like the Ecosport is on the wrong side. The CCTV footage.

https://youtu.be/IEr8m1DU9mQ

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Originally Posted by arungeorge (Post 4728802)

Looks like the Ecosport is on the wrong side. The CCTV footage.

Is this footage available for the Driver and the family of the Indigo? Means a lot to them. A hefty compensation to the cab driver and a rigorous punishment to the ecosport driver and its occupants is required. It's not only the Drivers fault here, even the occupants who did not stop this at first.

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Originally Posted by arungeorge (Post 4728802)

Looks like the Ecosport is on the wrong side. The CCTV footage.

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Originally Posted by ramzsys (Post 4725497)

... but the police said it was the indigo that came in the opposite lane.

This seems suicidal specially on an elevated corridor. But I can't say I am surprised. I have encountered such people on NICE Road multiple times. For them, the extra toll till next exit is more expensive than human lives.

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Originally Posted by shubhodeepdas@g (Post 4728888)

This seems suicidal specially on an elevated corridor. ...

It is a new level of madness in driving. Why waste money on such roads if this is the result.

Many of us have long said that new, improved roads and highways, without better driver training and discipline, will only lead to more accidents and deaths.

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Originally Posted by ramzsys (Post 4725497)

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Originally Posted by arungeorge (Post 4728802)

Looks like the Ecosport is on the wrong side. The CCTV footage.

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Originally Posted by speedmiester (Post 4728819)

What the hell is that EcoSport doing on the wrong side?
The poor taxi driver had to suffer for the Ecosport driver's stupidity. :deadhorse

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Originally Posted by saisree (Post 4728831)

Is this footage available for the Driver and the family of the Indigo? Means a lot to them.

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Originally Posted by shubhodeepdas@g (Post 4728888)

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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom (Post 4729239)

I travelled this road last week and parts of it have been closed for traffic (not sure why) making it tricky, when both lanes of traffic are merged on to one side. I would put it down to speeding and not much more.

We used to have plenty of accidents due to speeding when this was a single carriageway too.

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Originally Posted by Neeraj1903 (Post 4729429)

Found this on Facebook. A Fortuner being driven at high speed was T boned by an Xcent(?). It jumped and landed on a parked Verna and City parked ahead. CCTV footage of the same can be found in the link of the source below.

Source

Don't get it. Where was the Fortuner driver planning to go. It looked like he had no control over the car while approaching what is essentially a T junction.

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Originally Posted by JithinR (Post 4729434)

Don't get it. Where was the Fortuner driver planning to go. It looked like he had no control over the car while approaching what is essentially a T junction.

Even I was confused as the speed at which he was driving, he was bound to have a bad day because even if he took a left or right at that speed, the car was bound to topple :eek:
May be a case of failed brake.

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Originally Posted by Neeraj1903 (Post 4729429)

Found this on Facebook. A Fortuner being driven at high speed was T boned by an Xcent(?).
Source

Cctv footage from the link above:
https://youtu.be/6pbk4Z1zD3Y

News link: https://www.ptcnews.tv/chandigarh-ro...ctor-37-video/

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Chandigarh Road Accident: In a major road accident, one man was injured after speeding Fortuner rammed into two parked cars at Sector 37, on Saturday

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The driver of the Fortuner is injured and has been taken to the hospital. The identification of the driver is yet to be ascertained. According to the information, the driver was already suffering from health issues.

There was a 2 wheeler who also missed getting smashed by the Fortuner in the cctv video footage.

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Originally Posted by Neeraj1903 (Post 4729429)

I think he was taking Google maps maybe a bit too seriously, quite some time ago, during a trip it was late night and i was stuck in a block and it showed an alternate route, i followed it up to a point where it told me to go straight over a canal.