Lord Tas - teach, learn and be smart!

I was quite a bad start to the Chinese New Year. Over the weekend, I got rear ended by a taxi at a set of lights. No, I did not brake abruptly, in fact, we were all stationery. While waiting for the lights to turn green, I felt a huge impact and a loud bump. The taxi behind me surged forward and hit my car from the rear.

What transpired next was exchange of particulars, and of course, the endless paperwork, trips to the panel beaters, police reports, doctor's appointments, insurer. All that hassle and fuss.

If only the driver of the other vehicle could pay attention to the road and drive properly. This is my 2nd accident with a taxi. The last time, the taxi driver cut across 3 lanes ala Valentino Rossi while negotiating a bend and took out the front right of my car (about 3 years ago).

I believe that driver fatigue has a part to play in accidents. The reason that a lot of taxis are involved in the statistics point to driver fatigue (this guy was driving for 6 hours of his shift already), increase in car numbers and poor road courtesy. If only taxis has some sort of intelligent device to "force" drivers to rest for 20 minutes every 2 hours, I think we can have safer roads.

posted by Lord Tas @ 7:47 AM