Bump and Crash

29 Nov, 2009  Driving

I can’t believe that I saw this yesterday. While on the way to Villaggio on Al Waab street, this small old car goes from the right lane (lane 3) to the left lane (lane 1) without indicating and cutting a car off. (I thought it was funny how we were the ONLY 3 cars on the road and that guy still almost caused an accident.).

What happened next was a shocker. The guy that the indian guy cut off was in a jeep and it looked like he was pretty pissed off because he over-took the car and then tried to ‘slice him’ (Slicing is when you turn onto another car as close as possible with the intention of scaring the other individual and is usually done to teach someone a ‘lesson’.)

The jeep mis-judged it seems (or this could be intentional) and smashed the tiny car causing him to fly onto the side-walk. The jeep kept going but then slowed down to park on the emergency lane. As I passed I looked into the car to see it looked like a Shami family. A male driver, a woman in the passenger seat and two people in the back.

So I memorized his plate and called the police to let them know what I just saw. (I wanted to explain what I saw before one or the other lied about it.)

Talk about serious road-rage! As I arrived at the mall, I kind of empathized with the Jeep. I myself am sick and tired of people not indicating and almost crashing into me. (The day before I had called Karwa to let them know that one of their taxis almost crashed me on a round-about and then was unapologetic about it AND he had a passenger!)

On the other hand, of course crashing another person intentionally isn’t acceptable at all!

  • Rainbow

    Em, I fail to see what nationality has to do with this. Haven’t we had this conversation before on a parking gripe of yours? Pattern emerging…

  • Kei

    There is no pattern.

    As last time, I mentioned that I am stating what I saw. Just as I mentioned the type of car. No matter what nationality he is, it is wrong.

    The topics you should be focusing on rather than nationality is the fact that there are bad drivers and it’s shocking that man would put his family at risk due to road rage.

    I try to be descriptive with my posts. Otherwise we’d have pretty boring descriptions.

    “Man swirved on man. Other man hit first man with car. It was shocking”.

  • Rainbow

    Er, I don’t think you should be telling me what topics to focus on lol. I’m pointing out that you mention people’s nationality when there is no need to.

  • Intlxpatr

    I’m impressed you call the cops and tell them what you saw. More than once. Pretty courageous.

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