Here's why we must ban all immigration from 3rd world countries!!!
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034365-82.stm
Afghans Don't Let a White-Knuckle Highway Slow Them
Monday, February 08, 2010
By DEXTER FILKINS, The New York Times
SAROBI, Afghanistan -- Even in a nation beset by war and suicide
bombings, you would be hard-pressed to find anything as reliably
terrifying as the national highway through the Kabul Gorge.
The 40-mile stretch, a breathtaking chasm of mountains and cliffs between
Kabul and Jalalabad, claims so many lives so regularly that most people
stopped counting long ago. Cars flip and flatten. Trucks soar to the
valley floor. Buses play chicken; buses collide.
"I sit right here and watch people crash all day long," said Mohammed
Nabi, who fries fresh fish in an open-air stall along the road. "The
course of history has proved that the Afghan people are bullies. This is
why we cannot drive safely."
One day last week, 13 accidents unfolded on the road in a mere two hours,
all of them catastrophic, nearly all of them fatal. The daylong drizzle
made the day slightly more calamitous than most. At one scene, a bloodied
family grieved for their kin trapped in a flattened car. At another, a
minibus lay crushed beneath the hulk of a jackknifed truck. At still
another, the bottom of a ravine was filled with a car's twisted remains.
And yet even as those accidents spread themselves across the roadway, the
cars sailed heedlessly past. Taxis and buses weaved and passed one
another at bone-chilling speeds, with only millimeters separating them
from bloody catastrophe.
The lethality of the roadway stems from the unique mix of geography, the
road itself, and the drivers' disregard for the laws of physics.
The two-lane highway is barely wide enough for two cars to pass. On the
inside lane, less than a yard outside your window, stands a wall of
treeless rock that climbs upward in a nearly perpendicular line. A foot-
high ledge guards the outside lane, behind which lies a valley floor as
far as 1,000 feet down.
For the drivers, of course, that means there is virtually no margin for
error: they go into the wall, or over the edge, or into each other.
The Kabul-to-Jalalabad road was paved for the first time by the West
German government in 1960. In the 1980s, it was almost entirely
obliterated during the insurrection against the Soviet invasion. In the
decade that followed, when the Taliban and other armed groups fought to
control the country, the road was a blasted moonscape. The craters were
so large that taxis would disappear for minutes at a time, only to
reappear as they struggled to climb out.
It was a tough road, and it had its own dangers -- stretches of roadway
often collapsed or washed away -- but speed was not among them. That
changed in 2006, when a European Union-backed project finally smoothed
the road all the way through. Now Afghans could finally drive as fast as
they wanted.
And they do! The cars zoom at astonishing speeds, far faster than would
ever be allowed on a similar road in the West, if there was one. Like
Formula One drivers, the Afghans dart out along the sharpest of turns,
slamming their cars back into their lanes at the first flash of oncoming
disaster. Most of the time they make it.
The danger is heightened by other things. On paper, the government of
Afghanistan requires that drivers pass a test to get a license, but few
people here seem to have one.
Then there are the cars themselves, battered Toyota taxis and even Ladas
from bygone Soviet days. A typical Afghan car has bald tires and squeaky
brakes--not exactly ideal for zigging and zagging through the mountains.
But perhaps the gravest threat, apart from speed of the cars, is the
slowness of the trucks. The massive tractor-trailers that move cargo in
and out of Pakistan are often overloaded by thousands of pounds. They
cannot move fast; if they are climbing one of the gorge's thousand-foot
hills, they cannot move at all. They get stuck. They fall back. They fall
over.
So the cars and their drivers stack up behind them, angry and impatient,
and rush and maneuver and pass them at the first chance.
And so the cars crash, one after the other.
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Simply incredible. All afghanis are psychopaths. This road would be
perfectly safe if people would drive slow but they're too crazy to do
that.
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