Bad Driving
It’s not something new that we, Malaysians are associated with bad driving. As soon as we got behind the wheel, it’s our own world. We let emotions rule our abilities to think rationally. It’s the same old story again and again.
It’s also not surprising that statistic shows that women are worse drivers than men. Wonder how they come out with that statistic but being a woman driver myself, i can’t really argue or stand up against that statistic. Being a constant driver and driving everyday thru and fro to the busiest city in Malaysia, I’m immune to Malaysians bad driving.
Something happened today to spark my anger to write about this today. I was on my way to work and as usual after the Batu 9 tol plaza, the jammed would begin from four to five lanes squeezing into two lanes right in front of the Phoeniz Plaza. Cars would be cutting/changing lanes to get out from that situation. Many times I have blame the irresponsible motorcyclists who ride like nobody business, not even caring about their own safety through the jammed but today, I have seen from my mirror a motorcyclist was riding straight without cutting corners when an idiotic driver in a black Honda CRV cut into the next lane and the back of the car caused the motorcyclist to fell.
Funny thing is the driver did not stop. Our first instinct is to feel concern about the condition of the motorcyclist. I saw the driver passed me and u guessed it, it’s a woman driver. There is no expression from her face and i didn’t even see her looking back at the mirror to see the condition of the motorcyclist. I gave chase and when I’m next to the car, I honked twice at her. Her expression is still as if she didn’t know why she was honked at. I thought of winding down my window to scold her when I see a long queue at the back of me and I quickly abandoned the thought. I think after the whole incident, she still didn’t know that she has knocked down a motorcyclist! She is so ignorant of her surrounding. How can we put such drivers on the road??? She would at least heard a bang on her car and at least look at the back to see where that sound comes from unless she put her radio to a deafening volume.
I have her car plate number WMA 9688 and thought of maybe making a police report but when I told a few persons about the incident, they felt it’s just a normal case and nothing to report about so I also abandoned the idea. Okay, maybe I overreacted. With that speed, the motorcyclist could have only a minor injuries but I wasn’t satisfied that the lady driver didn’t take a look at the victim! How many times while we are driving and people simply cut into our lanes without looking or driving slowly on the fast lanes while a long queue of cars tried to pass him? Obviously these drivers are very much into their world while driving and they don’t even know how to use the rear mirrors on their cars. Man, our roads are a seriously dangerous place to be.
July 9th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Wow that was bad… but not as bad as this - I used to cycle to school, you still remember? Well, one morning, I saw some of our school girls (out seniors) cycling along the main road, and there was this WOMAN in a car at a junction waiting to turn into the main road, and she had her eyes turned only to the on-coming traffic (the group of girls were cycling against mainroad traffic flow) and when there were no cars, this stupid woman just lurched forward without noticing the school girls coming from the other side. And guess what - yeah, she knocked into one of the girls (our stjohn senior) who was crossing directly in front of the car (you’ve gotta be BLIND to miss a girl cycling right under your nose). Of course the girl fell of her bike - and you should be able to guess what the driver did… she waited till the girl got herself and her bike out of the car’s way, and sped away like nothing happened. *eyes roll pls*
And once, this guy on a motorbike knocked me (on a bicycle) so hard that I fell off, my books (in the basket)flew out, and my bicycle’s front part slightly mangled, and he sped away without even slowing down - but not before shouting curse words at me *eyes roll again pls*
I could go on and on - but I remember this is your blog, not mine.
Just be extra careful on the road… and don’t get angry or stressed (not good for baby) *hugs*
July 10th, 2006 at 12:01 am
talk about cycling, i experienced once when i was twelve. that was before the flyover was built in front of the school and all cars got to wait for the train to passed, the cars were so close to each other that i tried to squeeze through to the other side of the road with my bicycle and i wasn’t even cycling. there’s this motorcycle that came and banged into my bicycle and the man in the car in front of me who saw this said “ah, padan muka!” if i had been older, i would have slapped him at his face!
July 11th, 2006 at 5:04 am
we’re older, but no bigger (physical size)… can slap ppl on the streets ar?