Road manners

If I should write a blog about roads and traffic at Bangalore(or must I India), its going to be never ending. You can blame everyone around you, starting from Government officials, Road Builders, Traffic Police, Bikes, Sumos for the condition of Indian roads and the traffic rules being broken at every possible stage. But whom are we to blame for the behavior of drivers even when its their own fault.

A few days back, a minivan hit the bumper of our car. We were not sure of the damages at first but when my husband turned and looked at the minivan driver, he sighed irately to move since it was not big deal. And in a very small gap that he got, he sped away not bothering what we were concerned about. To hell with him. What if his minivan was hit by bus causing a huge damage? Would he speed away in the same way? Thankfully there were no damages to our car.

Alright, this had no damages, there was one another time when an auto hit the left mirror of our car, and there were scratches in the mirror dome. The auto driver argued saying that it was not big deal. Well, just because he has a auto that he doesn't care to maintain doesn't mean that others need to think in the same lines about their car.

These are materialistic. No damage to life. This one another incident that we witnessed yesterday right in front of our car and our eyes. Two bikes going in the same direction hit at the sides. One biker fell off the bike, at first shot I thought it was going to be bloody. But thankfully, it seemed minor. He survived without major external injuries(except for some bruises). The other biker just turned, saw that this person had fallen down, yet fled off as though it had nothing to do with him. He was too fast that we missed to notice the license plate number. We were in a state of shock as well, after witnessing this.

Courtesy doesn't seem to be a word that these people know about.

P.S.: Before posting this blog entry, I happened to see a program on TV, which showed an accident captured on a camera at a traffic signal somewhere in the US. Briefly, a man who was hit-and-run by a car was being unattended by passers by. After a long time, a woman from the crowd called 911. The man is now left paralyzed from below his neck. Doesn't seem like its different from our Indian story.