my luck is going to run out soon

[kosmonooit]

So there I was taking a gentle commute to Rosebank Jhb on Saturday morning, mainly on the back roads and pavements where possible (as I do), approaching the underpass of Corlett Drive under the M1 on the pavement, I get a call from a hub member I bought a frame from, concerning the shipping. So leaning up against a sign, we discuss the extra costs Postnet want to charge because the frame in a box has a mass equivalent of something like 18 kg's, but there is the Cyclelab option....

 

All of sudden, huge crash right before my eyes and wreckage heading straight for me. A skoro koro taxi straight through the red light and t-bones a Merc crossing the road. It came off second best. The wreck stopped a few meters away from me. No injuries, the Merc driver was very calm, not myself, I wanted retribution but took a pic and left the scene.

 

 

Taxi driver in the middle, taken from where I was chatting on the phone.

 

1) How can pieces of junk like this be allowed to be on the road. You can seen its hobbled together from other bits and pieces, the front suspension has collapsed.

2) How can people like this be allowed to use the roads and endanger other lives and have such disregard for the rules of the road.

Edited July 14, 2013 by kosmonooit

[DIPSLICK]

What did the merc look like

[kosmonooit]

What did the merc look like

Not too bad: It had glancing blow on the non-driver side but also took out that traffic light pole you see on the lower rhs that narrowly missed me

[Swart Kat]

Eish my basie......... Ek dog ek gat hom jump...... You better thank that frame seller for phoning you!

[kosmonooit]

You better thank that frame seller for phoning you!

 

I would have been in Melrose Arch by that time if was not for the call. I don't cycle on main roads at all. Pavements yes. So we are not even safe on the pavements anymore < my point.

[Vetseun]

Close one Kosmo. Glad you escaped

[kosmonooit]

Thanks Turtle, often I see taxi's (and other vehicles) jumping red lights on main busy roads, whilst I am waiting to cross on the pedestrian crossing, but the audacity of this cretin was a new low. Maybe the brakes failed, who knows, but the failure of the system is that he is probably back on the roads now.

[Stretch]

Jeez that taxi is so old I half expect to see David Kramer and his red vellies standing on the sidewalk

[Baaisikilist]

Bit of Plascon wall n all applied with a brush and it'll be crabbing down the road in no time at all... 'Good as New'...

[Gambithunt]

Taxis will never be clamped own on, the police are too scared and too lazy to bother.

 

They'd rather pull over a band new Merc or BMW than a scorrel taxi, I've seen it happen often.

 

[tunariaan]

Eish!