Pinoy Loves Wheels ( The Filipino Motoring Lifestyle Blog): Top 10 Road Users (Hazards) That We Should Watch Out For

(Sharing you another Story I wrote for http://www.coolfastwheels.com)

I was driving on my way home last year with my family from Manila to San Juan. While at Otis, a truck who was not in its proper lane at the Quirino Ext- Unilever stoplight almost hit us while the truck driver was turning left to Unilever. I changed lane to avoid a possible accident. My dad told me that I am in the right of way, but I replied to him, “I won’t risk our lives just for that, and most of all we are riding an under-engineered passenger van, it ain’t no Volvo“. As I continued on driving home, I realized that we should drive defensively all the time, especially that there are road users that just don’t care about us–the majority of the motoring public–at all.

Here’s a list of the most selfish road users (hazards) that we should watch out for, because no matter how much we want to get rid of them, they are already part of our motoring culture, and we should just get used to it, they make our motoring lives challenging. I don’t really need to explain why I had identified them as road hazards:

(Most of them have a signature move: Swerve to the left, then swerve to the right, with no signal lights)

1. Under-disciplined Underbone Riders

Let’s be careful riding

2. Buses

Bus drivers are really bad drivers

3. Jeepneys esp “the Patoks”

That’s what you get when you swerve to the left, then to right, with no signal lights

4. Taxis

Amphi Taxi?

5. Trucks

That’s what you get for overloading!

6. Tricycles

Common Sense is needed when you’re in three wheels.

7. Spoiled Brats a.k.a. those under-disciplined kids who were given cars by irresponsible parents at an age where maturity is not yet in their vocabulary

Would you believe that was an Audi? Wasted car! Wasted life!

8. Politician / VIP Convoys

Politicians rarely get into accidents, but still a hazard to a regular motoring civilian when the latter is forced to move his car out of the Politikos way… What the?!