An Audi driven at speed on the wrong side by a drunk woman hit a taxi headlong on the Eastern Freeway in the early hours of Tuesday. So severe was the impact that the fire brigade had to be called to cut through mangled steel to pull out the taxi's driver. He and his front seat passenger didn't survive. His three back seat passengers are in hospital with fractures and other injuries.
Drunk woman lawyer rams Audi into cab on Eastern Freeway, kills 2 - The Times of India
The reason I wanted to share this is because I was dumbstruck at three pointers:
1. Audi driver was totally drunk. She was said to have consumed 6 pegs of whiskey. She passed out while she was in Police Station and when she awoke the next day, she couldn't remember what happened.
2. She was driving at 120 kmph on the WRONG side of the road at the Eastern FREEWAY! As such we have a huge population of idiots who make merry at the wrong side of normal roads but this is freaking Freeway where average speeds are in triple digits, giving even lesser margin of error for poor drivers.
3. The driver is not some rich spoilt brat we usually associate this kind of accidents with. She is a lawyer, the kind of occupation that require logical mindset and smartness. The kind of people you don't expect to show such reckless behavior.
While I was reading this news, all I was thinking was that if I were at the place of the victim I could not have done anything at all to avoid the accident. Even if the victim was driving at 80, the incoming vehicle at 120 makes it a relative speed of 200. Hardly any time to react if you consider that victim could never have anticipated a moron coming from wrong side as this is a freeway.
I would like to ask experienced riders here that what they could have done if in place of the victim to avoid such accident? I am clueless here.
Second thing is shouldn't this treated as a culpable homicide rather than a road negligence case? This is equivalent to a murder in my opinion.
Drunk woman lawyer rams Audi into cab on Eastern Freeway, kills 2 - The Times of India
The reason I wanted to share this is because I was dumbstruck at three pointers:
1. Audi driver was totally drunk. She was said to have consumed 6 pegs of whiskey. She passed out while she was in Police Station and when she awoke the next day, she couldn't remember what happened.
2. She was driving at 120 kmph on the WRONG side of the road at the Eastern FREEWAY! As such we have a huge population of idiots who make merry at the wrong side of normal roads but this is freaking Freeway where average speeds are in triple digits, giving even lesser margin of error for poor drivers.
3. The driver is not some rich spoilt brat we usually associate this kind of accidents with. She is a lawyer, the kind of occupation that require logical mindset and smartness. The kind of people you don't expect to show such reckless behavior.
While I was reading this news, all I was thinking was that if I were at the place of the victim I could not have done anything at all to avoid the accident. Even if the victim was driving at 80, the incoming vehicle at 120 makes it a relative speed of 200. Hardly any time to react if you consider that victim could never have anticipated a moron coming from wrong side as this is a freeway.
I would like to ask experienced riders here that what they could have done if in place of the victim to avoid such accident? I am clueless here.
Second thing is shouldn't this treated as a culpable homicide rather than a road negligence case? This is equivalent to a murder in my opinion.