Am Mittwoch, 26. Juli 2006 21:28 schrieb Ravi Rao: > There are *plenty* of factors in play and I think one of the most > signficant ones is this -- driver awareness.
Well, not only driver awareness. The other participants in traffic, namely pedestrians, need to be aware of the traffic as well. In Kodaikanal I had one accident (in which I wasn't injured heavily just thanks to the helmet I wore and that got a big hole in it): in spite of sounding the horn (it was a loud horn), a woman walked from the sidewalk on to the street, looking permanently into the other direction, away from me. I was about ten meters away and hit the breaks immediately, yet too late to avoid the accident in which I was the only one with damages. I have often observed ignorance on the part of the pedestrians - unless the horns are sounded, they wouldn't make the street free. The concept of a sidewalk, whether it exists or not, is not in the minds of many Indians. Maybe this has changed since then, but I remember that I had to be very alert on every inch that I drove, because I had to expect a person walking on to the street at every corner and from behind every tree at the roadside. It happened more than once. Martin -- Martin Senftleben, Doctor of Philosophy, S.V. University, using Linux http://www.drmartinus.de/ http://www.daskirchenjahr.de/
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