During our trip to and from my parent in law’s house by motorcycle, there is unusual crowd in any occasion. People assembled to see even a crashed car, a turned over car, or a fallen motorcycle. Distance our house to our parent’s house is about 52 km and we go to visit to there at least once per 2 months. The unusual crowd almost happened 3 of 4 times of our trip to there.
The land traffic accident has been usual news to our eyes and ears. Some people might think that safe in land traffic is a lucky, which the traffic accident is destiny that cannot prevent. It is a sad, but true. On the other side (land) travelling is a routine daily activity what we do every day now.
There are a lot of factor caused an accident happen. In some cases it seems hard to control or let say to prevent an accident. But at the end all situation are back to us. Do you have face to mirror and ask yourself: what do I do to prevent any land traffic accident?
By the last time we went back from parent’s house, a car rolled over so that its roof on the ground. All its glasses broken even the frame has not get any deformation. I did not stop while I saw unusual crowd happened around the rolled –over car. I just reduced my motorcycle speed and pray: hopefully there is no victim.
There might be in the crowded people who guess what the accident because is road design which narrows and sharp turning. There might be guess the driver was got micro sleep. And then many more guess.
Believe me, an accident could be prevented. At least we could control it by ourselves. Do pre-start check prior drive/ride a vehicle. Drive vehicle by defensive manner, not offensive. We could easier the vehicle we drive slower—reduce your speed. Every 5 seconds check mirror left-middle-right for a while to see if there are any vehicles or things behind. Give attention to the road, look forward as far as you can see and prepare a quick planning what you should do if there any holes or another vehicle that slower or park. If you need to take over, please wait until you could in front no obstruction—on turn, descending, and ascending prefer do not over take. Give a good respect to all road users especially to pedestrian which also part of defensive driving.
Another matter to get more attention is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and safety devices. When you ride motorcycle: use a helmet which comply Standar Nasional Indonesia (SNI), glasses, jacket, trousers, and shoes/sandals. When you drive a car: always use seat belt, and others safety device if require like air bag.
That is correct if PPE or safety devices are not fully prevent any accident happen. But even any unwanted incident happen those could reduce consequence severity. In the other hand the effective way to prevent any accidents is not to do any travelling. But by this way you just stay in one place because of an afraid to accident risk.
As ending of this writing, start from now does the safe driving. You do not need in hurry to leave this beautiful world because of land traffic accident to go to heaven. God is the real planner, heaven can wait.
Balikpapan, 27 January 2010
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