I've been there and seen it with my own eyes. I'm a pretty confident driver but the rules over there have got me beaten. Sometimes it almost seems like the traffic turning right or doing a u-ey across the flow of traffic on the main drag has right of way. Wouldn't swear to that though, I think that the traffic turning right just stays there until someone is kamikaze enough to push their way across and everybody else follows. When you're driving on the main drag you just have to expect traffic to jump out on you from any side turning and on any road you have to be ready for the drivers around you to switch lanes with no warning (even when there are only two lanes). Overtaking is something else, every journey to work seems to involve about 5 near head ons. I leave it to my driver and just hope to get there is one piece.
Don't be fooled by the apparent lack of accidents though, India has one of the highest levels of road fatalities per head in the world, and when there is even the most minor bump it turns into a fist fight. Almost every day in the local press you read about a murder caused by road rage. Last time I was there a guy was pulled from his car by a mob of tuk-tuk drivers and hacked to death with a machete because he had run up the back of one of them
28-Dec-2006, 17:43 
Jools
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