On which side of the road do you drive in India?
12.13.2008 - 03.29.2009
Most of you are well aware that traffic rules are largely voluntary in India so I won't bore you with day to day transgressions. But there are degrees to everything and even the jaded world traveler is apt to raise an eyebrow when traffic goes the wrong way on a freeway - especially when it appears to be quite the done thing. Check out the following video of a truck going the wrong way on our lane. One shudders to think what would happen if our driver is not alert while overtaking a car. [In the US we call these "ghost" drivers because their life expectancy shrinks to a few minutes... in India my co-passengers didn't even notice anything unusual!]
I took the previous video quite smugly, hoping to post it on the internet to show how badly other people drive. But then our driver missed a turn and my father in law directed him to go back. The next legal turnaround was very far away so the driver simply did a U turn and started going the wrong way. Now we were the culprits, and here is the video ...
Posted by tomaszj 03.03.2009 6:56 AM Archived in Family Travel | India







