Good Initiative Sunny. I feel Indians do need to have the so called "Road Manners". I have been lucky enough to avoid numerous accidents because of these idiots who thinks roads to be garden of the home and stroll as if they don't care.
I still remember one incident when I was cruising behind a cab Indica at 90kmph. I was about to overtake the car from left as there was enough room when all of a sudden he opens his door to spit... Holy Hell! I was scared of hitting it at 90kmph.I had to do panic braking!

What's the difference between Negligent pedestrians & Jay Walkers? About 6 months ago, people were really scared of crossing the road on OMR, IT Express highway where the IT park is bang opposite to the railway station. But now? People have changed to fearless Hyena's . They occupy the complete 3rd lane for walking. By the time the footpath is up & functional, it will be used by the stray dogs!!!

I really wonder as what is over speeding. If it means that I ride/drive at 50 Kmph on a 40Kmph zone, then most of us are over speeding. To me, overspeeding means, speeding more than normal flow of traffic is over speeding. But then, if one has to do this, they should fall under one of these categories...
- Dangerous & reckless driving
- Jumping signals
- Tailgating
- Cutting others off
- Weaving in & out of traffic
- Honking the vehicle's horn or flashing lights

Anyone who's overspeeding WILL do one of the above necessarily. For that matter, even under speeding should also be punishable!!!

Oh!!! there's one most important fact that needs to be addressed - The last lane being used for riding in opposite direction which is more than violating the rules!!!

Sorry, there's no warning from cops these days!!! Every morning I witness cops encouraging people to jump signal & this is how most people are taking baby steps to jump the law.

Absolutely true

Best way is to start at school rather than learning in driving school!!! What goes into head at the age of 6 will remain as behaviour for ever

I'm not sure how this is going to help; people, most people who do this may not even have access to website & even if they do, they wouldn't see this website, even if they do...sorry to say...they'll forward the downloads to their equally insensible friends stating they've been photographed!!! Sorry if I sound negative, but I don't know how effective this is going to be.

Exactly what i was about to post. Though the website gives an insight to what is happening out there, it doesn't help in any way to fight the situation and make it better. People will upload pics and videos of "idiots" and the community will itself realize the potential risk on road but it wouldn't eradicate that risk overall.

Having said this, every thing done to raise awareness is good for all of us, no matter how and when its done. Will forward this website to friends everywhere possible.

PS: Any thing that could make my dad wear his seat beat would be a real change in terms of promoting motoring sense. I have failed numerous times.

^+1 to that aargee. You do not sound negative there but just opinionated. But yes this will have very little impact because when these people in real time are getting warnings/awareness from the law enforcers and bad accidents as examples, they don't seem to care, and putting such issues on the web will have even smaller an impact because of the lack of access or/and ignorance like you said. But it is a good initiative since an effort to make things better is better than not doing anything at all and living with it without a care like the 'Idiots' on the roads.

I fell prey to such an idiot on August 3, and now I have a steel rod in my right fractured arm. I'm sitting at home unemployed due to this.

Sometimes, I am so filled with rage that I want to take a sword and kill every fu**ing rulebreaking B@$tard on the road!!

The fool who caused my accident, was riding at night and passing through an intersection with no street lights.
He couldn't switch on his headlights,
He couldn't blow the horn once,
He couldn't ride slow,

And I couldn't see him, as nobody gave me night vision goggles...

He just stopped right in front of me. And I crashed at 30~ kmph and was catapulted on the hard (believe me, really hard!) road...
Helmet saved my head, but what about arm? My right arm was bent like letter "Z".

The fool was on a silver colored bike, but that's all I remember... He lifted my bike as my foot was stuck under it.
But on fear of the crowd, he dropped it back, further causing breakage of ankle's soft tissues. And he ran away leaving me lying on the tarmac...

I had to lift my right hand using my left. An ambulance was called. 1 operation and 4 days hospitalization... And life was never the same again...

I left Basketball, left Biking and left believing that one can be completely idiot proof. Guys, try your best being idiot proof, specially at night...

God bless all.

sorry to hear about this horrible event samarth. You can't be safe 100% on road no matter how much gear you put on. learn from this and get a 1 piece/2 piece suit, doesn't matter if its a cheaper one.

@Samarth - Sad state of this country!!! Sorry to hear your bad experiences. I pray you recover well soon & start riding again.

I appreciate the initiative, though I wonder how would this improve. Not that I am doubting the efforts, but I just wonder how can I make any person Obey traffic rules by sitting in front of the computer.

Idiots are everywhere. As they say-
Harr shaakh pay ullu baitha hai,
anjaam-e-gulistaan kya hoga!!

(= There are owls everywhere, what is going to happen to the Garden) Poor Translation though!!

I have been trying to ask people to ride/drive sane. Some listen and follow, some listen and laugh at you while a lot wont even listen to you. But I think, even if each one of us tries to be sane himself and going further, can try to guide atleast one more person, he concern would be largely addressed to.

I on my part have been constantly nagging and telling my Brother-in-law to drive /ride sane. I know how he feels after hearing all these dos and donts but I just cant help it.

I opted for gifted him a pair of Riding gloves than any other thing. I ensure that he drives sane anytime when we are going in the car. I pester him to park in a better way, leaving enough space on the road, letting others use the road properly.

But then again, I wonder how will this improve the situation, when I see people of all caste, creed, gender, financial status to be breaking laws at the drop of the hat. I would be wrong in judging anyone just like that, but I wonder why would seemingly literate people act like IDIOTS while on roads. Why would they just not obey the traffic rules, why do they believe in the philosophy of -Rules are meant to be broken.

Anyways, I might not be able to change the world otherwise, but as they say- Change begins with me. I do my part and expect my mates to do theirs.

Ride safe, All cheers

dcs

Sometimes i don't understand why don't motorcycle manufacturers put good headlights on the bike . We have to pay for the inferior headlamps and then again pay for a better one. With the stock headlight on my P200, i can't see a thing at night.

Will a car driver find this acceptable?

Same thoughts here. Even educated people driving 15+ lakh cars, don't know road etiquettes.

Driving in India is a dance with death. The only way to avoid it is to drive a car. Period.

Except the top end cars such as Laura, BMW, most cars comes with standard lighting.

I wouldn't call it dance of death, we're in the system. Period; and that's the way we live.

A good example would be, if you're watching a traffic jam from a high rise building, you would call people are crazy, but if you're one among them, you would only want to get out at any cost.

And what's the standard lighting - a 35W non-halogen bulb.

Yeah, because if you don't then the person behind you will honk like crazy and everyone will gang up to push you out of the way.

Its like when the whole system is being corrupt and one guy tries to be upright, then everyone will try to pull him down.

I tried not to be one among "them". But you know what happened - one guy banged his car against my motorbike (that was purely intentional, because he first stopped and then later banged his car when i didn't move after his incessant honking). Another time an auto-driver came to me and asked why did i stop at a red-light.

After those two incidents i too stopped stopping at red-lights when no-one else is stopping.

Now what would you advise me - to be self-righteous and get hurt or to follow the herd?

Also the infrastructure contributes to it. Why doesn't the govt. create a separate lane for people taking a right-turn. Why aren't priorities implemented at junctions without traffic-signal or at the roundabout? Why are speed-breakers not standardised? Why aren't radium stickers/paint put on the dividers? Why aren't sign-boards put up before we approach the junction rather than at the junction? Why are sign-boards ambiguous? Why are "men-at-work" kind of sign-boards not removed when the men have finished working? Why are roads with pot-holes not covered up on time? Why is the patchwork shoddy?

And don't tell me that the govt. doesn't have money to implement this. India is not really a poor country.

60/55

Lol

Be a roman when in rome

Too bad...on your part. Those guys would've been angry probably because you did not yield way to them. Quite natural!!!

Now, you can opt to remain the same OR you can follow the same but do it slightly different. Putting it in black & white - You know there's a signal & you need to stop, get to nearly the left or in the middle of the road & stop before the stop line. Yield way to all those morons who think they'll save several hours before they die, if they save time at stop lights. No issues, no complaints, those wanting to jump will never shout on you, those feeling guilt will follow you. Don't tell me it doesn't work, I've been doing this for atleast a year now AND IT WORKS!!!

Have you filed RTI for any such instance? Have you approached any Govt dept for asking these questions? Have you filed a PIL? Have you done any of these apart from paying tax? Just don't complain, if you cannot do anything constructive.

India is still not in debt like UK or USA.