Driving in India, you see wrecks by the side of the road, mile after mile of them.
Many have really serious damage.
All the "good" parts that were left after the accidents are gone to other vehicles.
head on collisions of trucks full of people is not unusual.
Drivers play chicken there all the time, many lose.
That's not an exaggeration. One more point that we observed:
The horn is used differently than here. It means, literally, 'Get out of my way or I'll run over you!!! (or shove you off the side of the road)'.
Large trucks and often busses simply go where they want using the horn to clear the way - and everybody knows there are loon truckers who will kill you if you don't move aside. Everybody gives way when they hear an angry sound from an air horn.
Just an unfounded theory but I wonder if this is left over from British rule there, when the Brits drove like that using their horn - and vehicular manslaughter of a local didn't have any consequence.
A single day's observation:
*Dead motorcyclist who likely stalled as he tried to cross a busy expressway from a side boulevard.
* All the busy expressway traffic upon reaching the crashed motorcyclist, crossed to drive against traffic on the opposite side of the center divider. Without reducing speed. Oncoming traffic scattered, some ditched, to avoid headons.
* A bus upside down, partly down the bank. Survivors climbing out.
* and back in New Delhi, rich peoples kid jamming his subcompact through between two jitneys denting both, to get to the head of the line at a traffic light.
