[chaitanyakrish]

This happened on Bannerghatta Road.
The biker abruptly stopped as his bag was slipping from his bike.

https://youtu.be/d_tI9YOtu7Q

[tharian]

Originally Posted by chaitanyakrish

This happened on Bannerghatta Road.
The biker abruptly stopped as his bag was slipping from his bike.

Atleast they had the presence of mind to warn traffic behind they are stopping.
But, notice the BMTC joining the main road with no signal or checking traffic. The usual and what is done by 90% of drivers and is the most annoying and top it all, like everything else, they think what they do is rigtht.

[navrddy]

Atleast they had presence of mind to inform people behind.
Totally different question, whether they were following MV law, no helmet.

Originally Posted by chaitanyakrish

This happened on Bannerghatta Road.
The biker abruptly stopped as his bag was slipping from his bike.

https://Youtu.be/d_tI9YOtu7Q

[Small Bot]

Originally Posted by Capri89

A bad passenger and in this case a bad driver also. He should not have opened the sun roof in the first place.

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Sunroof fellow, i presume alcohol is the culprit! Just why!?!

I've seen several such incidents, a troublingly high number of them involving children.

While we do not know if there was any day-drinking involved in this incident, I'm pretty sure people need not be the slightest bit inebriated to do stupid stuff like poking their heads out of a moving car, and making their heads more prone to losing whatever little brains are left.

Which is why I personally believe that a sunroof is completely useless for most of Indian road/driving conditions.

I haven't even pulled back the sunroof blind ever since I took delivery of my Brezza. A contraption devoid of purpose, which I'd have gladly traded for ventilated seats any day.

Originally Posted by chaitanyakrish

This happened on Bannerghatta Road.
The biker abruptly stopped as his bag was slipping from his bike.

Originally Posted by tharian

But, notice the BMTC joining the main road with no signal or checking traffic. The usual and what is done by 90% of drivers and is the most annoying and top it all, like everything else, they think what they do is right.

This is quite nothing compared to what buses all over India do. This is what I've experienced so far:

• Being tailgated so aggressively that I could almost feel the bus's logo caressing my rear wiper.
• Being randomly sideswiped by a bus from either side, without so much as a honk, let alone an indicator.
• Being subjected to those monstrous air-horns that seem as though they are blasting directly from your driver-side mirror.
• Being frantically overtaken by a bus from the right, just for them to stop abruptly in the middle of the road right in front of me and slowly collect an inevitably aged passenger with a ton of bags.
• Being pushed off into the shoulder (or sometimes ditch) by two buses who want to play go-karting on an undivided highway.

The list could go on, just that these alone are enough to increase my heart rate.

Oh, and if they happen to hurt or kill somebody and someone has the guts or money to file a case against the bus drivers, the bus drivers' union leaders will arrive in their Landcruisers and Range Rovers and go on a hunger strike from breakfast till lunch until everyone is let off with a penalty and a suspension, I mean, paid leave. (I'm obviously exaggerating heavily, but you get the point).

There's no winning against these people, so I generally give them a wide berth.

[silversteed]

Originally Posted by chaitanyakrish

This happened on Bannerghatta Road.
The biker abruptly stopped as his bag was slipping from his bike.

My first thought after seeing it was exactly this:

Originally Posted by tharian

Atleast they had the presence of mind to warn traffic behind they are stopping.

Originally Posted by navrddy

Atleast they had presence of mind to inform people behind.

... followed by, how many would have noticed the venerable bovine that was tottering in front of the scooter - either the bag helped them (and the traffic behind) notice her, or she was the reason the rider's bag slipped, while braking.

Originally Posted by navrddy

whether they were following MV law, no helmet.

They are liable to pay a fine for riding without helmets.

Originally Posted by tharian

...
But, notice the BMTC joining the main road with no signal or checking traffic

The scooter was also likely in the bus driver's blindspot, unless s/he had done the shoulder check, which, I think is improbable in this case. Since it was an electric bus, the scooter rider would've had a code brown situation too.

[asmr]

This clip is from my office commute today. Guess I was a bad driver today.

Watch the Maruti Celerio that does a very risky overtake between my car and another one in the middle lane. I am not going slow or anything in the right lane.

I got mildly irritated but didn't think much of it. Then after several seconds, the Celerio driver gets blocked in his lane and to me, it looked like he was trying to pull the same squeeze through stunt. Of course, he had no indicators on. Giving in to an already irritated impulse, I pressed my accelerator a bit and overtook him, being well within my lane.

The guy rolls up to me in the next traffic signal, asks me to roll the window down and asks, "En ippadi?" (why this way?). To which, I responded, "I am going correctly in my lane. You are the one weaving in and out of lanes". I rolled up my window and drove on.

The driver looked older and he was not being abusive or whatever, but clearly thinks he has the right of way whenever he wants. So I just let it go and not linger on.

Possibly a mistake from my side - I saw the car to his left after I almost passed him. On second thoughts, I should have simply let that car go ahead and not antagonized him in the first place.

https://youtu.be/6uiPsiJ0skU

[AdityaDeane]

Saw a near miss experience on the road this Friday night, hats off to the super reflexes of the driver in the Thar, but he did endanger his passengers, and the Trucks ahead of him and to his right. Glad that it didn't turn into a bad accident!

https://youtu.be/RZc5XQzNYM8

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by AdityaDeane

hats off to the super reflexes of the driver in the Thar

It looks like it is just a stupid manoeuvre like we see too much of on city streets!'

I have to admit that I have some admiration for the spatial/speed awareness of people who bring off this scissors-type overtake, but in many cases, it just looks like they think their on a bike. And shouldn't have done it even if they were!

[funkykar]

Originally Posted by AdityaDeane

Saw a near miss experience on the road this Friday night, hats off to the super reflexes of the driver in the Thar, but he did endanger his passengers, and the Trucks ahead of him and to his right. Glad that it didn't turn into a bad accident!

https://Youtu.be/RZc5XQzNYM8

I wonder if he was too quick to brake and stop, thought rear-ending was imminent, and in a split second made the decision to overtake.

His line was dangerously bad (came from extreme left to right), hence I wouldn't appreciate his maneuver ever. Never overtake unless you have a sighter that lane is clear enough. From the way it appears, he couldn't have a glimpse if the right lane was clear ahead of the truck. If a slow-moving 2-wheeler or car or whatever was right next to the truck, he would have rammed into it and made a mess of his car and a hell of a life to all the truckers who inadvertently would have been involved.

[prajwalmr62]

Originally Posted by AdityaDeane

Saw a near miss experience on the road this Friday night, hats off to the super reflexes of the driver in the Thar, but he did endanger his passengers, and the Trucks ahead of him and to his right. Glad that it didn't turn into a bad accident!

This is a near miss, but only because Thar driver utterly failed to notice the truck in front of him. Best maneuver would have been to wait until one of the truck overtakes and clears the lane. This was just a dumb move with enough luck.

[Mustang Sammy]

Originally Posted by AdityaDeane

hats off to the super reflexes of the driver in the Thar, but he did endanger his passengers, and the Trucks ahead of him and to his right. Glad that it didn't turn into a bad accident!

https://Youtu.be/RZc5XQzNYM8

That driver doesn’t deserve any compliments whatsoever. He endangered his own life and that of many others on the road.

There have been SO MANY times when vehicles of all sizes have cut me off to squeeze into a tiny gap.
As someone else has said on this thread, many people drive cars, buses and trucks like they are on two wheelers, weaving in and out of lanes with gay abandon.

[adi.mariner]

That was a really close encounter for the Thar. It would have been disastrous for the Thar if the truck in the right lane was going at a slightly higher speed. The move was so sudden that the truck didn't get time to brake as well. The Thar's high Centre of Gravity means that it would have toppled very easily if there would have been contact and that too at an angle. The truck driver would have gotten bashed for no mistake of his.

[Mustang Sammy]

Not quite “bad driving” but a massive disaster waiting to happen. This auto is carrying Gas Cylinders with just a rope to keep them from falling off!!
The lack of safety norms and the lackadaisical attitude towards workplace and personal safety in our country is shocking.

[Sedate driver]

This happened in ECR while coming from Chennai to Pondy. In the ECR there are some stretches of 4 lane roads which quickly merge into single lane road. Many times I encounter impatient drivers overtaking from the left and cutting just at where the 2 lane merges into a single lane. You can see a moron in Scorpio N cutting the Audi and immediately another absolute idiot in SX4 cuts me from the left without any idea of road manners. In fact I really don't understand where they want to go despite many vehicles going slowly due to traffic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzLZDf8W4c

[anjan_c2007]

Seven on a bike caught on a video from Hapur, UP.

https://twitter.com/imrajni_singh/st...ailyhunt.in%2F