The Most Dangerous Roads?

[Northwarks]

Was in Mumbai for business earlier in the year .. company paid for a driver for the week thankfully, we commuted every morning to a local office and each day was (IMHO) risking your life, we actually knocked a guy over one day and our driver never even made eye contact with the poor guy when he got up off the road   - but the driver we had was amazing, had a sixth sense when it came to other vehicles.

 

But the highlight was a 2 hour drive along one of the motorways been overtaken by trucks with tyres tread flapping and wires exposed dropping rubble ... to water pipes laid over the road and concreted over to form a 'speed humps' oh and a pile of rubble in the middle 'lane' covered in weeds everyone was swerving to avoid .. add to that pipes sticking into the carriageway, holes big enough for a sofas ... driving in Coventry and Birmingham is tame in comparison.

 

I was under no illusions of what it was going to be like as I've seen plenty of TV showing the chaos but to actually be a part of the maddness everyday for a week was proper scary ... amazing how much additional grip you can get with a pair of clenched cheeks !

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Yep, did some work in Delhi a few years or so ago, much the same! Oh and throw in cows munching grass and weeds on the odd roundabout, or the occasional family going past on the back of an elephant.

 

And that's before you get to the five lanes of traffic using three lanes of road sometimes, on the family of five all on one moped...

 

It just goes on, absolutely insane, but somehow seems to sort* of work.

 

*Sort of if you take the karma approach of "if today's the day you're due to die, then die you will, doesn't matter how", and ignore death rates.

 

The big old trucks batting along the roads at night with no lights on were the second scariest thing though. (The first was the same trucks randomly stopped, broken down in the middle of the road, still with no lights on)