I remember top gear driving in India and it was chaos, especially at night. People going the wrong way, unlit trucks, people without headlights, people fixing shit in the middle of the road. Basically everyone did whatever they wanted at whatever speed they wanted and just hoped it worked out. The footage is hilarious and horrifying.
India had over 172 THOUSAND deaths from road fatalities in 2023.. something like 470 people a DAY.
Not shocking they would cause massive crashes even if they could read.
I’ve got the amazing perspective of both being a truck driver, and having visited India (it’s a long story I’m not going to get into, but I stumbled into a job in my early 20’s working as an assistant for a Chinese guy who owned a construction company, and he wanted me to come along and make sure he didn’t get murdered or kidnapped because I am a scary looking 6,2 white guy). We flew into Amedhabad or however the fuck you spell it, our driver was a nice guy, friendly, well spoken, no accent, he was a good driver, in the four hour drive we had out into the middle of no where we were almost hit by wrong way drivers probably 5 or 6 times, road laws are a suggestion, and they drive like retards even in the middle of no where, when they don’t need to do dangerous shit, there is also apparently basically no incentive to actually pay traffic tickets, and even when you get them, it’s the equivalent of getting a 25$ ticket here for driving drunk (in the only state in India that banned alcohol consumption to). We spent few days in Amedhabad and it’s one of Indias “nicer” cities, garbage everywhere, wild dogs, cows, and even pigs roaming the streets, as I was walking to go get something to eat I saw what I thought might have been a dead pig in the street, as I walked back people were still driving over/around it, about 30 minutes later police cars and ambulances showed up (this happened just outside our hotel), I learned the next day from our driver that what I thought was a random animal was apparently a teenager that fell off the back of a motorcycle, for what was probably around an hour, people continued to drive over his body. The greatest gift I got from that trip was the knowledge that I don’t even want the best educated one in my country, they are animals. And now I share the road with millions of them, I do have Jeet stories from the road, including confronting them when they dump garbage bags out of the side of there truck instead of walking 10-20 feet to place it next to a garbage can, but most of the time they just give you that dead eyed stare and mumble something in there garbage language before speeding off. I once had one try to convince me I had to move at 3 AM because he “reserved a spot” (I wasn’t in a reserved spot) and It ended with me telling him if he didn’t get the fuck away from my truck that id feed him his own teeth, I don’t think he understood the threat because he was trying to talk to me with a translator app (id tried for about 3-5 minutes to explain to him that I wasn’t in a reserved spot, I even did the courtesy of getting out and showing him) but he started yelling at me in his goobledigook dirt person babble, so my response was to just yell the first thing that came into my mind, I’m generally a very quiet and friendly person, I don’t like conflict, and the few times I have “blown up” on people, it clearly shocks them because I go from 0-100, it’s incredibly jarring, and it throws people off. Anyways, we need to deport every subhuman from the sub continent.
