Perhaps this story may be a sign of the times in India.

The Express News Service of India reports that a man in India was sitting inside of an office building when he happened to look out of his window and witnessed an accident involving a car and motorcyle. He rushed out to help the victims. While trying to provide aid, another motorcyclist happened to stop as well, and promptly slapped the guy on the ear, popping his eardrum, and rendering him unable to hear in that ear...

"Without having knowledge of the accident, the man abused me, blamed me for the mishap and slapped me. He was in no mood to listen (to) anything. Some more people gathered at the spot. So I called the police control room on 100 number for help," he added.

"Instead of providing some immediate help, the control room police asked me to approach the nearest police station, which was not possible because I was surrounded by people who were holding me responsible for the mishap," he said.

Labels: India, Road Rage

An opinion entitled, "Bike processions can be a big headache" published last week in the Toronto Star seems to suggest that bikers riding in a group are the cause of a number of accidents.

Note: you can also get the full article here.

The opinion starts out by describing members of the Southern Cruisers out for a ride on what apparently was a two-lane highway, with one lane moving in each direction. The riders were riding at the posted speed limit. A person driving a car at a very high speed quickly caught up to them, and found himself stuck behind them.

Getting frustrated, he entered the opposite lane in an attempt to pass them by. The problem was that he failed to see the truck coming at him. He swerved his car back into his lane, but in doing so clipped a motorcycle. He ended up killing himself, and injuring the two people on the motorcycle.

The author who wrote the opinion used this scenario as the basis for expressing his/her own frustrations with group riders. In fact, as you read through the opinion, the author seems to focus solely on bikers for having created frustration with many other drivers, and that something ought to be done about it.

The author further incriminated him/herself by writing the following sentence...

Not to mention the annoyance of 20 sets of straight pipes pointing directly at your eardrums.

Labels: Biker Discrimination, Group Riding, Road Rage, Unsafe Drivers

The folks at MonkeyMeter.com have announced the official launch of their website. Monkey Meter fields road rage reports from the general public, and then provides driving conditions all of the large cities in America.

So far, being new, it doesn't provide much data. But it could end up becoming an useful tool if enough people use it daily.

Labels: Road Rage, Websites