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
To be frank there is a curb where it happened. But only inside the bend… and the accident happened outside. It’s a steep-ish slope, and the road is muddy… the guy just got his license and played a football game that he won. So he took in a couple buddies and boosted down the road hoping to celebrate, I assume -too fast for the tires to keep friction with the asphalt. Imho, here the immediate problem is the lack of risk awareness. The second problem is the absence of speed bumps on this particular road section. And the problem at the root of it all, you know it
Also I take back that he’ll be shunned for the rest of his life -so far, thank god no one died. And he is young, so he’ll be forgiven. I dearly hope this sticks with him and everyone in the village