Russian Driving...mesmerising....

[EcclesCake]

It's not difficult to understand why so many cars have onboard cameras.

Road quality looks good, fingers crossed the driving ability catches up!

[EcclesCake]

Try again....

[EcclesCake]

And again but not using the YouTube box... http://www.youtube.com/embed/AXz4P6EpX3s?rel=0

[emmie]

you have never seen the Greeks drive then, maniacs.

[DTCwordfan]

Try the Nigerians, Chinese or the cab drivers in Cairo. Average speed there, 15 mph for the mass of the car population, 45mph for the taxis.......

[emmie]

i always thought that the french were bad drivers, then i spent time in Greece, very scary. anyone who goes to santorini, drives up from the main port needs a real head for heights, and nerves of steel, unless they have changed things since last time was there.

[DTCwordfan]

It is very reminiscent of being in China, the difference the lack of people as an additional major hazard - was being chauffeured in Shenzhen one time and a woman was pushing her pram, baby aboard, down the fast lane of the new motorway........only one of several things that I saw in 8 years working out there in HK and the mainland.

[emmie]

must admit that's scary, however i sat in the car going up the mountain road on santorini, it was at night and had wondered what all the little dotty lights were, rather like candles, only to discover they were car lights, and that you couldn't get a f ag paper between the car going up to the one coming down
i have left a space for f ag, as i don't this site likes it?

[Khandro]

Mesmorising! I watched 'Bullit' on Arte last night, and this makes it look like Jackanory.

[EcclesCake]

I've driven and been driven in many countries, not sure I've encountered anything quite like this though. According to the email accompanying this video most of the drivers were stoned, not sure how true it is but it is a reason for such wanton disregard for themselves and other road users.

[emmie]

if it's Russians then probably too much vodka..

[vulcan]

The only one involved in all that mayhem that had any sense is the horse which used the crossing. Unbelievable!!

[EcclesCake]

The horse made me laugh too!

[emmie]

some are not though, wonder what the stats are for deaths on the roads in Russia.

[DTCwordfan]

At one point, Yeltsin tried limiting vodka sales with the amount of accidents and death on the road in Moscow.....the numbers went the wrong way. Muscovites were turning to cutting brake lines to get at the fluid and the methanol.........I'll see if there are some estimates on the death rates.

China is reckoned to be one of the worst in the world. The trucks that were so overweight and then bald tyres that a baby would have been proud of for their smoothness.....that just doesn't mix.

[emmie]

i remember friends who worked out in the ME, drinking aftershave, no kidding, because of the alcohol content, fancy breathing old spice over everyone.

[DTCwordfan]

This is interesting:

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/road-traffic-accidents/by-country/

The good news is the low position of the UK

Namibia is the worst, Africa awful accounting for 25% of the world's road deaths. Thailand heads the Asian figures - and I can say that trucks and bikes do not mix. Also those lovely benign people have a habit of reversing back over the bike victims as dead evidence does not talk......The China numbers may be far higher, as this statistic has always been a bit of an embarrassment for them. By experience, some of the accidents are absolutely horrific and I have witnessed a few.....I shall refrain from sharing them with you.