Tuesday 20 September 2022

Perils of wrong side driving and guard rails


Perils of unscientifically placed guard rails/ barriers on highways. 
There's a wrongly parked truck (at the farthest end of our screen) facing oncoming traffic thereby reducing the width of the carriageway. 
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Another truck was also being driven slowly  in the wrong direction facing oncoming traffic. It was about to cross the already wrongly parked truck which had narrowed down the width of the carriageway. The left A-pillar of the white tanker first hit the truck being driven in the wrong direction. whose hazard lights switched on after the hit. 
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After the hit the wrongly driven truck rolled back and its rear hit the rear of another brown truck whose driver was talking to someone on the road. The sudden hard push from behind made it swerve to its right. The man on the road fell on the road and came under the rear wheels of the truck whose driver he was talking to. Simultaneously the left of the white tanker brushed the right of the brown truck which had swerved right after the rear collision. 
Worse still, there was a guard rail/ barrier in the path of the white tanker at the very spot where it brushed the last truck. 

The driver of the white tanker crashed into two vehicles for no fault of his. He escaped the scene as a natural instinct. 

Irrespective of whether one is riding/driving a Bajaj Platina or Alto or Nexon or Audi Q7 or truck or bus, the extent of risk is huge and unpredictable for all. 

Remain #HighOnCognition/ #ExpectTheUnexpected whenever you are there on the road. 

Nitin Gadkari ji, please put a stop to this nonsense of wrong side driving and haphazardly erected barriers which has snatched away too many lives and/or maimed even more innocent lives. 

Note: Location and date is unknown. 
* Mishap And Calamity

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