Road accidents vs Natural calamities

[app_engine]

I dont think there is a substitute to good bringing up.

Completely agree with you!

However, what to do with all the "grown ups"?

Also, for every family that strives to instill good values in their children, there're 100 others who don't care That's why community (or gov) control has become necessary.

Your very post says that some who exhibit crass lack of self-control in one place behave themselves properly in another (where someone else puts a noose around them). What'll they do if Johore ALSO has same restrictions?

[Jyothsna]

Lets take Malaysia as an example.

Over 70 deaths were reported over the last few months because of H1N1. There was nation-wide panic with ppl staying home, buying masks and hand wash soap like there was no tomorrow.

Next.... we just finished celebrating eid festival where large number of malaysians return home to thier hometowns or villages.
Ops Sikap was conducted to control road accidents.

The figure?
265 deaths in 7 days from 17,335 accidents.

You tell me, which is worse?

Gyani O pakkangalla itha pathi ezhuthi irunthar..

[padmanabha]

42 ppl were drowned when jalakanyaka capsized at thekkady.

tourists moved to one side of the boat on spotting wild animals and the boat capsized

instructions were not to the tourists before the journey

the boat is brand new-just four months old

the tragedy is that

none of the tourists were provided with life jackets

and they were lying inside the boat sealed
that means for the past four months, none of the the tourists were provided with life jackets-

they escaped because of mere luck-

If Kerala -The Gods own country-promotes tourism in this manner,
it will becomes Yama's won country

road accidents were very high
and also
the mentality to recuse the injured is very low-
deaths are mostly due to loss of blood-

no one would stop the vechicle to take the injured to the hospitals

the thought that it could happen to us -never come to their minds

[Lambretta]

Geez, what an abysmally stupid b----!! can't believe there are such senseless drivers even in the UK with stringent driving rules!

And she was actually the one driving for God's sake!!

Technology has grown... we no use cell phones everywhere, including when driving. DO we use hands free sets? No, thats inconvenient.

Can things get worse?
Yes of course!
From speaking on the cell phones, we have progressed to sending sms while driving!

Want to see what happens next?

Watch this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/i...ti-texting-psa

Warning: Its graphic!

[app_engine]

Not a single day passed since last week without witnessing an accident spot during my drives and this is very unusual

Almost each day forced a delay of 15 min to 1 hour on freeways due to some accident or other. I can't understand why such a thing during summer...

The worst one happened on Sunday which very closely missed our van.

We were actually rushing and I was driving around 75 mph on a 70 mile road on the left-most lane. As usual, I made sure that a gap of counting 1 - 2 is maintained between the vehicle before me.

However, all of a sudden a vehicle from the middle lane rushed into mine, right in front of me (poor fellow, he was avoiding a bar-b-q oven released on road -in his lane- by an idiotic truck).

With a typical reflex, applied the brakes, slowed down to 60 and avoided hitting the fellow in front of me So far so good.

However, there was this impala who was almost tailgating me at a similar speed (and possibly wasn't prepared to brake like me). As I was watching on the rear-view mirror - and my wife and son turning back to see the horror - that fellow tried to go to the extreme left in the grass land between EAST (opposite traffic) & WEST (us) interstate freeways, lost control, took a 90 degree turn, crossed the land between and slammed on two cars in the opposite direction

It took us a few minutes to recover from the shock of witnessing the whole episode, while I continued to drive (and listening to the "archanais" for speeding from both wife and son).

[app_engine]

And this news made me revive this thread :

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article....sdate=6/4/2010

TN is the 2nd worst in road accidents in India They're talking about tightening the licensing methods.

[app_engine]

As I got my 2W license in TN and 4W in Kerala, I can talk a little bit about the difference between the states.

Kerala is almost like U.S., meticulously conducting written test for L and ground-road tests for the regular license. Reasonably strict and rejections are just too many (I'm an eye-witness to them).

OTOH, no 'tests' are practically needed for TN For L, you just need to be there in RTO office - sign. For the permanent license, even that's not needed, if sufficient time has passed since the L and you pay the money - you get it

(I've seen this in 80's, 90's and also in 2003)

[suba]

self realisation - we never do it
awareness campaign - we ignore
rules - we blame government
fines - we blame government
safety measures - we blame government

We neither think of ourselves but always blame and complain on people who think for us.

[app_engine]

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article....sdate=7/4/2010

Tanker accident kills > 220 people because of fire