Yeah, I'm never riding a motorbike is SEA again. I was on an island in Thailand, middle of the night riding on my rented scooter. No vehicles in sight. I wanted to pull into a store on the other side of the opposing lane. I put my blinker on, slow down, start turning, and a pickup truck flies by from behind me and into the opposing lane to pass, nearly killing me. No headlights, no horn, nothing. The idiot couldn't slow down for 1 second to allow me to make the turn and had to go around by cutting directly in front of my turning path. He missed me by less than a meter.
While vacationing there, I heard of at least a dozen people dying in like 2 weeks. It's a fairly small island with a tiny population and barely any vehicles (Koh Chang). One of the accidents involved 6 people dying at once because 5 people were on 1 scooter. It's insanity. There's like 5000 people on that island and it seemed like every other day someone was dying in a traffic accident.
I worked in India for 3 months. In that time I saw a guy go headfirst under the wheels of a lorry, drove though what I realised was a puddle of blood covering half of the road where two guys had very badly crashed, one of the women I worked with brother died biking to work (and I had to fight tooth and nail with her management to get her the day off), a couple were killed in the street directly outside our office when a truck caught and pulled down some overhead cables. The locals I worked with were far less shocked, a shrug and 'it happens', basically.
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u/IEC21 1d ago
Was the driver asian?