Today is not a good day for me with respect to my safety on the road. I started on bike in the morning to drop my child to school and we almost lost balance when front wheel of my bike went on a joint between two blocks of the concrete road. I regained my balance immediately due to reflex action of my left foot to take support on the road.
Later, when I started to go to my factory, en route, all of a sudden a school bus from my left side came closer to me to take right turn without any indication. The road is about 30 feet and there are no lanes to follow. I slowed down to allow the school bus to move past and avoid getting hit.
After 5-6 km bike ride, a car first and later a bus from opposite direction, one after another crossed the double mark on the road encroaching the road meant for vehicles moving in opposite direction. Again, I escaped when I swerved left and those vehicles immediately went within the otherside of the line. At that moment, if any vehicle coming behind me could have hit mine due to my movement leftside, but, as my luck was with me still, there were no vehicles behind.
In all above incidents, I was driving cautiously at about 30-35 km speed and thus could avoid my fall or hit against other vehicles. Still, I am unable to think what I should have done to avoid these near misses except in the first incident, wherein, I could have avoided entering into the road joint.
Two weeks ago, when I was travelling in a company vehicle to airport in Mumbai, the driver commented that one should avoid driving closer to the road divider particularly during night and early hours as it is likely that some drivers under the influence of alcohol or those driving at high speeds can loose control on the wheel and cross over the road divider and hit opposite coming vehicles travelling adjacent to the road divider.
Soon after, when I reached my place and was coming out of the airport, I saw a car landed in the thick bushes between the opposite roads, being towed away by traffic police. It appears that some rash driver could not take turn along the road curve due to high speed driving and ended up in the bushes on the roadside. The car exactly stopped at the other side of the edge of the road divider. If it moved a foot distance further, it could have hit easily any of the vehicles in opposite direction as it is a busy airport road.
The above is a lesson for me that we should not drive too close to the road divider.
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