Road users
in Egypt have to anticipate everything, including the impossible. That’s daily
routine, that’s normal. Egypt has not for nothing one of the highest rate of
deadly road accidents.
Hurghada
has divided roads, thanks God! After a bad, deadly accident recently, traffic
was quickly redirected on to the opposite lane. Without signs, without traffic
police, just like that. So there were cars, microbuses and lorries on the same
lane, driving across each other. At the same time, cars continued turning into
the lane from right where there was suddenly two-way traffic. Consequently, we
saw two lines approaching, one going onwards between them!!!! Bloodcurdling! I
closed my eyes and simply hoped that everything would go well.
And why do
cars, microbuses and lorries back over longer distances, against traffic on the
divided roads? Sometimes, because they missed to turn off. Sometimes however,
because some hundred meters further on, there is a mobile police check point.
Thus, when the driver’s documents are not ok or not existing, or when his car
has actually been unfit to drive or has been stolen, there is only one
solution: lop off. Backwards of course. So why, I ask myself every time, does
the police not command someone 500 m prior to the check point? The traffic
control would be much more successful. And the dangerous fashion of backing the
car would tremendously be reduced.
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