You said it Martin! An articulate description of problems we all face.
Deepa.
On 7/27/06, Martin Senftleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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