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  • Day 20

    Madurai driver crash

    January 12 in India ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    On the way our driver (who was always a bit of a maniac to be fair) managed to get himself into an accident. You almost never see accidents in India, everyone just knows how to drive to the conditions, share the road and follow the unwritten rules that allow 5 vehicles across a 2 lane piece of road.

    Our driver though who was on his phone a lot, was deep in it when he failed to look up and see the driver in front had to stop. Was a decent nudge, no major damage to the other guys car but definitely damaged the fender, and for the next day he was worried about the radiator.

    You would think that would learn him but no siree! That ringtone ‘Panay Paneer’ is what we heard, we all started singing it in our heads until it started to get sung out loud! We did actually have to say to him at one point to slow down as the kids were feeling sick. He was driving into blind corners at such ferocious speeds it was genuinely frightening!
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