...Our driver was stopped and all of the cars and motorcycles were still squeezing carefully by. I looked up to see why and noticed that we were at one of the few stop lights in Mumbai. Seriously, there can’t be more than a dozen stop lights in this city of 18+ millions. Anyhow, not only were these jokers all running the red light, but there were people running the red light on the wrong side of the street. It was like we were all in some sort of twisted auto-octagon for a final battle or something. I just clinched my seat and hoped we didn’t get killed driving through the intersection. Of course we are in an SUV and most people are on motorcycles, so I think we have the upper hand!
On a related note, there was an article in the paper today noting that there are 280 fatalities per day on the streets of India -- go figure!!!
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Clarification: I found out that it is not that many road deaths each day in Mumbai. It is more like 280 per day in India (whole country). My bad :(
Clarification: I found out that it is not that many road deaths each day in Mumbai. It is more like 280 per day in India (whole country). My bad :(
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