My Traffic Experience
One of the easiest ways to reduce accidents on the road is by installing a traffic light.
A traffic light is a device that count down time and display the red, green and yellow light. The red light is for stop, yellow is getting set for movement and green indicator is for movement.
This works in contrast with count down time of the next traffic light.
Whilst vehicles are waiting on one side, vehicles are moving on another side and vice versa. it is usually installed in between cross roads to prevent accidents.
I will be sharing my worst experience with a faulty traffic indicator.
On my way to exam center
I had an exam to write and on the process of transporting down to the center, I encountered a traffic jam. It was an usual one and people didn’t detect it at first and were patient because of law enforcement agency present .
Usually the traffic light shouldn’t take 30 seconds count down time reading but ours passed 3 minutes. And we were much concerned with my intentions that I still got 10 minutes more to get to the exam center.
We waited on the traffic for longer time, not until we informed the law enforcement agencies that were monitoring the traffic, we are tired of waiting and hence it has been a longer time spent.
Fast forward to what happened, we never knew that a tanker had fallen right in front and this led to fuel been spilled on the road. But luckily for us we were far away from the incident location, I later learnt the tanker fell as a result of the driver recklessness in over speeding whilst making a round U turn.
It actually clashed with a vehicle but no life was lost.
What happened at the end
On getting and seeing spillage of fuel drilled down to our vehicle location when we got the news. There just had to be a reverse back and all vehicles that were waiting for the traffic reversed.
As I got to the exam location, I heard the exam was postponed due to the incidence and was happy about it. I learnt that something happen in life for a purpose because if vehicles were to drive to the location of the incident, it might result into difficult reversal for cars behind and close by was a burning trash. But the fire extinguisher was used on it to turn it off immediately.
Thanks for reading, do have an awesome day.
sometimes often the cause of congestion is due to an incident like the one you told or other collision incidents.
Yes that's true.
Honestly, I just don't get why drivers of oil tanker usually feel the need to speed. When they are basically carrying a live bomb. Some people are reckless indeed.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
Some aren't experienced in driving, that can cause accident too. Because at a round about turn you should slow down having known the vehicle will be tossed to one side when turning. So experience is a solution.