Little Accident

I am surprised that we don’t see more accidents with the normal crazy driving – but I have to admit Chinese drivers are probably the best defensive drivers in the world because they EXPECT everyone else to be breaking the rules as they are. Also another reason is that you can ‘t drive very fast here because of all the traffic.Anyway… to the accident. We were on a bus going from the wedding to Cynthia’s home county. It was a fairly uncongested country road -2 lanes – paved with most of the cars, trucks and buses probably going about 60-80 km I would guess. The road had nicely paved shoulders but as normal there was this car that decided to stop in the middle of the road. This is a COMMON occurrence – they don’t pull over to the side – they don’t give any prior warning, they just stop. The bus couldn’t stop in time and clipped the back end of the car. No one was hurt but it was interesting how it was handled. The bus driver stayed cool. The other “stupid” driver was ranting and raving. Police were called. When the cop got there – he took pictures and then everyone left – which by then included lots of the local farmers and their kids that came to see what the excitement was about.