: Multi-vehicle pile up
One dead and up to forty injured when between twenty and thirty vehicles crashed this morning.
It happened on the Jebel Ali-Lehbab Road when a bus crashed into a truck, another truck crashed into the bus and the pile up began.
Police say tailgating and the fog were responsible.
I disagree. The fog was not responsible, irresponsible dangerous driving was responsible.
As a result, the driver of the bus is dead and four other people are seriously injured. A further eight have ‘moderate’ injuries, whatever that means.
Yesterday I said that on my early drive I didn’t see bad or dangerous driving in the fog. It was a one-off, an abberation. Later in the morning I did see my share of morons.
This morning I was almost wiped out twice in five kilometres.
A Landcruiser coming straight into the roundabout I was on, the driver not aware because he was too busy chatting on his mobile phone.
Then one of those ridiculous huge Ford pickup trucks, speeding in the overtaking lane, the driver deciding at the last second to turn off right. That meant swerving across in front of me to do it. Another coat of paint and he’d have hit my front end.
Gulf News and The National are both carrying the story.
Gulf News.
The National.
