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
I mean definitely mistakes happen, when we start saying that everything is on purpose that’s a big problem. However, one of my biggest irritations with people who fight against better infrastructure is how they all suck at driving. They’re terrible at it and refuse to get better but also demand that everything is built in their favour. That negligence absolutely does lead to preventable injuries and loss of life and far too many of these “accidents” are exactly as you say.
I’ll start paying attention to those idiots when they start putting in some vague amount of effort. At this point they can’t even turn left without cutting the oncoming lane.