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This is an amazing video..not fun or smack... I guess the whole idea of traffic control signals hasn't quite taken hold in China. They do have some nice, wide streets however....

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/t ... meras.html

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in SJO i literally saw an accident with injuries every day of my stay and i walked much of the time.

That's absolutely amazing.

I have lived here for over 7 years and can count the amount of accidents, that would appear to have someone injured, on 2 hands. No toes.

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I was walking around with a friend one day and he a taxi missed clipping him head on by a c*nt hair. And if he had not suddenly stepped up his pace, it would have. He was very shook up about it. Be very, very wary of scary hairy Larry's driving around San Jose, they don't pay attention to pedestrians.

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did you loose your toes in an accident? j/k brother. 1. on way from airport into gluch raining and dark. someone loaded into ambulance. 2. in front of la amistad one car one taxi one bleeding from head. 3. motorcycle with blood all over head but standing like he was fine. 4. airbag had gone off and three people standing in traffic one was holding her arm, i didnt know CR had airbag requirements. 5. right in front of us someone stepped out into traffic and landed on windshield but it didnt break they were hurt but i didnt stand around to see how badly. i have seen numerous cars on fire near miami and most of them had been in accidents. miami and SJO traffic it's a close one.

didn't any Chinese moms teach there K*ds to stop and look both ways?
But I did notice the traffic lights are small and located high over the center of the intersection. I know this is normal for some states here, but I have hard time finding those lights myself, I always liked the lights low over the stop line on each approach side. But that is what I am used to here in my state.
Did like the motorcycle driving that just plan ran into the parked truck at full speed. sorry that was funny to me.

Read some of the comments, one German said how in Germany they will always wait for every one clear the cross walk even with a green light before moving , some Chinese person posted right after that, then you never move, and to run them over then deserve to die for being in the cross walk.. Seems to be in the comments a lot of Crimean charges with death sentences for the people who who either get run over or cause the accident...

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Some of the comments are pretty funny.

But this must be a characteristic of the Chinese. I drive through Chinatown every morning on my way to work. I have gotten used to driving slower and to looking around to all sides, especially at/near intersections. I drive with my hand on the horn. I have had a few close calls over the years. And it's only pedestrians, not others cars. I saw a bus take out a guy at an intersection, the bus had green. Those fuckers will just walk right out in front of you when they have a red; right into the flow of traffic. It's crazy. I've been thinking about installing an air horn for those special idiots. If they're close enough, they won't be able to hear anything for the next hour.

Those accidents in the crosswalks remind me of San Jose, another place where pedestrians certainly DO NOT have the right of way. I walk with my head on a swivel in San Jose.

The funny thing about the Chinese here in Houston - they are the safest drivers around, almost to the point of irritation. Drive extremely slow in parking spots. Stop and look to see if someone is coming and wait around 5 seconds or so just to make sure. Usually drive around 5 miles under the speed limit. Never seem to be in a hurry. That's my observation of 95% of the Chinese drivers here in Houston.

But I have a friend that is from Taiwan, and she said that Taiwanese are very different from those from the mainland. And she says most of them here in Houston are from Taiwan.

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Something that has to be remembered here, it that this is the first generation with wheels and they are driving that way. Think back to the 1960 early 70s, this county used to run up around 50,000 dead year .IN my state Wi - we watch at the end of the year to see how soon we got to 1000, Evey holiday weekend there would be est car deaths announced before the start of that holiday. Local, state and National numbers. When was the last time you heard that. One big time TV announcer got fired for saying after the holiday weekend and the death toll did not make the estimate, " Your not trying hard out there"

Ok then think back to when you got your lic and first set of wheels, all of us were undiscovered Race Car drivers, and we were going to win Indy before we got to 21 with a can of beer in one hand and your arm around a cheerleader at the finish line ( dam if I know why I am not dead).

Ok go back to the old films form the 1920- 30s and see how we drive, granted slower, weaker cars/trucks, but some of the old new reels films look a lot like this, and to think how rare film was compared to today , so we are not even seeing a drop in the bucket of how we used to drive.

After driving and riding in the Eastern Block countries, passing on side walks, running red lights on 6 x 6 lane roads, playing chicken all the time, this is nothing really surprising to me, in anther 20-40 years they will out grown this type of driving like we did

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