Adventures in a brown nissan sunny
i was pleased to read in the paper yesterday, that police have finally had enough of the rampant rubbernecking which causes hours of traffic jams and have taken some action... don't know how preventative it is though. A fine of 110dhs will be introduced (17pounds sterling) to the offenders, but one wonders how this will be enforced.
How will they differentiate between those who are rubbernecking and those who have been forced to slow down and think, oh i may as well have a look as i've slowed down. And I can't really see how introducing fines will prevent people from slowing dowing down.
Afterall, we have speeding fines some of which have been increased as a measure to slow people down and reduce the number of road deaths. However, as the paper reported yesterday, 7 months of the year so far, 833 reported road accidents of which 137 people died. Comparing this to last year, there was a total of 180 odd deaths for the year in total. Sheikh Zayed Road being the main offender.
Now forgive me for this comment, but i am sure many will agree with me when i say the Indian/ pakistani subcontinants are the worst drivers on the road and it has been noted that atleast 60% of all accidents are caused by them. They are also the worst rubberneckers!! On the highway where you should be doing 100kms, they will suddenly slow down to 30kms just to peer at the two people on the hard shoulder in the hope of seeing some action. When it's more than likely that perhaps they have stopped to have a chat. It gets incredibly infuriating! Perhaps the enforcers will just look out for the brown nissan sunny's?
This could be a tact... 2 years ago, i met with an accident which resulted in my car stuck in the shop for over 1 month. In the mean time i hired a car. I knew which one i wanted and was hoping one was available. There was a waiting list of 2 months! Tried to pull some strings, drop some names and made a few calls. Finally after some backhanders i was jumped to the front of the queue! I was called one sunday morning and informed to come and pick up the keys for my hired car which i was only allowed to have for 2 weeks due to the high demand. It was a brown nissan sunny! oh yes! I decorated it will lowely golden tissue box holder and bought a fresh bunch of fake grapes to hang in the rear view.
At the time, the car i was driving was a black convertible sporty lil' number (poser.. i know!) and i noticed the difference in how i was treated almost immediately. In the 2 weeks, i was fined a number of times simply for changing lanes (i used my indicator and everything), whilst in the little black car this NEVER happend and I was cut up a million times more than usual.
Moral of the story - don't drive a brown nissan sunny!
How will they differentiate between those who are rubbernecking and those who have been forced to slow down and think, oh i may as well have a look as i've slowed down. And I can't really see how introducing fines will prevent people from slowing dowing down.
Afterall, we have speeding fines some of which have been increased as a measure to slow people down and reduce the number of road deaths. However, as the paper reported yesterday, 7 months of the year so far, 833 reported road accidents of which 137 people died. Comparing this to last year, there was a total of 180 odd deaths for the year in total. Sheikh Zayed Road being the main offender.
Now forgive me for this comment, but i am sure many will agree with me when i say the Indian/ pakistani subcontinants are the worst drivers on the road and it has been noted that atleast 60% of all accidents are caused by them. They are also the worst rubberneckers!! On the highway where you should be doing 100kms, they will suddenly slow down to 30kms just to peer at the two people on the hard shoulder in the hope of seeing some action. When it's more than likely that perhaps they have stopped to have a chat. It gets incredibly infuriating! Perhaps the enforcers will just look out for the brown nissan sunny's?
This could be a tact... 2 years ago, i met with an accident which resulted in my car stuck in the shop for over 1 month. In the mean time i hired a car. I knew which one i wanted and was hoping one was available. There was a waiting list of 2 months! Tried to pull some strings, drop some names and made a few calls. Finally after some backhanders i was jumped to the front of the queue! I was called one sunday morning and informed to come and pick up the keys for my hired car which i was only allowed to have for 2 weeks due to the high demand. It was a brown nissan sunny! oh yes! I decorated it will lowely golden tissue box holder and bought a fresh bunch of fake grapes to hang in the rear view.
At the time, the car i was driving was a black convertible sporty lil' number (poser.. i know!) and i noticed the difference in how i was treated almost immediately. In the 2 weeks, i was fined a number of times simply for changing lanes (i used my indicator and everything), whilst in the little black car this NEVER happend and I was cut up a million times more than usual.
Moral of the story - don't drive a brown nissan sunny!
posted by ReginaFilangee at 10:50 PM
2 Comments:
I'm sure I've seen that same comment somewhere else....gosh Dubai sounds like a hive of activity. It must be fun and oh so different to living here in London. I'm sure when NK moved to Dubai that he drove a Nissan Sunny. I had no idea they were so popular.
Hope you're OK. x
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