Another Crazy Day On the Road In Barbados

As I have documented in the past how I feel the roads in Barbados are a crazy and dangerous place, due to how certain individuals chose to driver their vehicles. I wrote an article not so long ago where I gave a few pointers as to how things can be improved, Another Driving Lesson For the Good Folks Of Barbados.

Even I was amazed a day last week when I witnessed not one, but the aftermath of four crashes during the morning and afternoon school runs. The good lord must have been looking after me that day because I only got held up badly by one of them, I however felt sorry for the drivers on the other sides of the roads who weren’t going anywhere fast!

As anybody that lives in Barbados will be fully aware of, is how badly the roads slow down here when there has been an accident. It is pure madness and I would rather visit the dentist that be forced to sit in a Bajan traffic jam, that has been caused by someone crashing into another vehicle because they don’t understand the concept of keeping an adequate distance from the car in front.

My personal favourite out of the four crashes had to be at the Emancipation Statue roundabout where a bus had went into the back of a lorry. All these stupid crashes must take up so much of the police forces time, there were two police vehicles dealing with the situation.

I was glad to read in the newspaper last week that the police hierarchy in Barbados are starting to take heed of how bad some people drive on the island. However I was surprised that there was no mention of the poor state of the roads, a stretch of the ABC Highway beside where I live has got some unbelievable pots holes in it and I feel they could quite easily cause an accident. This is meant to be a major road and that is used by thousands of vehicles every day.

I use to moan on about the state of the roads back home in Scotland but they are like bowling greens compared to here. I will tell you something else for free, if my car was damaged due to an excessively big pot hole anywhere in the UK, I would be within my rights to go and claim the cost of repairs from the council responsible for the road in question. The government in Barbados would be bankrupted if they were to pay for all the damage caused to vehicles due to the poor state of the roads!

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