Someone drove into a family this evening. Two boys are severely injured. I’m shaking because it happened super close and it could have been anyone I know, or me.
There’s a big proportion of absurdly dangerous drivers here in Mayotte. Most people drive okay, and there’s a few fine & courteous drivers too. But this small demographic endangers everybody else.
On an island without curbs, where the rainy season makes every road muddy and slippery, where entire families routinely go to the mosque and back on foot twice a day, there’s also dicks in audis, cunts in huge jeeps, and neither get the hint. It’s small villages throughout, a few extended families, everybody knows everybody. The fucker is still being deincarcerated from his 2 ton metal box. You can be sure he will be shunned for the rest of his life. But that’s a meager consolation. It could have been me, it could have been my wife, it could have been any of the kids I know from the neighbourhood,…
I needed to get this off my chest. God, really, genuinely fuck cars.
Be safe,
Hadri
Here in my part of the US road design is usually decent for protecting pedestrians, and my family has been doing a lot of walking since pandemic.
But now my youngest is in college, and he’s continued the “long walk” tradition. But the town he’s in has no sidewalks outside of campus, has roads without even a shoulder. Now he’s at much higher risk of a moment of inattentiveness by some drunk or texting college kid