ECR - East Coast Road.
The most dangerous road in and around Chennai.
People go crazy on this two lane road ( for most part ). Nobody bothers about how dangerous it could be during an accident. During my recent trip to Chennai, I had to go on this road once and I got really scared.
People in India can't drive without the headlights on HI-BEAM, even if they were to drive on a well-lit road. And nobody bothers about it.
Imagine a night drive on the ECR when everyone drives with the HI-BEAM on! What a nightmare.
If you meet with an accident on the ECR, God bless you. We all know about the pathetic emergency services in and around Chennai.
One of the better bloggers in Chennai once lamented about a situation where a person met with an accident right outside MALAR HOSPITALS and that he passed away because nobody came forward to take him to ER.
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Normally what happens is, if we try to call 101 (Fireservice) emergency number, they ask the area and tell us the nearest firestation phone number. Then we have to call that number. I learnt this from a mock fire drill. May be thats why it gets delayed it seems.
Also if it is near to any city then people themselves would rush and put out the fire.
Anyway, its a shame on the government as it has not taken any precaution in areas such as ECR which is becoming more accident prone.
Jeez,when will our country ever understand the value of lives?How could the government officials take things for granted?Why is it we public just dont react?Two days back you had written about a father and a son who got killed in a road accident and today its this one.I read the driver was arrested.But why the driver alone?why not all those lazy corrupt officials who had taken no initiatives to finish the work, to put proper signboards,who had failed to monitor the speedlimits.I couldnt think about that mother and daughter who escaped just becos they opted to travel by bus and the relatives of these car accident victims.Its going to haunt them their entire lives.I just thought for a moment ''what if if I had to go thru something like this?will i just write a comment like this in a blog and just live my life or will I do really something worthwile to make a difference in our society?''I am still searching for an answer!
I just don't want to comment on this corrupted officials or government or the traffic polices.I think it doesn't create any impact on commenting them coz they won't change. Coming to the hi-beam, Hi-beam of the opposite vehicle makes the driver go blind for a second and also most of the roads are poor illumiated. In this situation a normal dim light makes the opposite coming vehicle in visible. GOK who can solve this issues. :(
This Hi-Beam is really a threaten for night driving; because of this we avoid the night travel. On ECR another disturbing thing is the prevention made by police, without any board or sign they keep wherever they like, it feel against riders esp. bikes have chance for accident.
Hi NV Sir,
Paarthaale . Vayatha kalakkuthu
Barani
The hi-beam headlights is something common here in Kerala too. Most people don't care a thing about others in the road and it ends up in accidents.
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