As usual at that time of the day lots of traffic and the normal road works just before the bridge helps to create the normal confussion and bottleneck with the normal culprits in Sunny's and Landcruisers (maybe all car manufacturers should include an Introduction to driving course with their cars) weaving from lane to lane, when we where overtaken by a policeman on his bike, blue lights flashing. First though that crossed my mind that if there was an accident up ahead it would just stuff up the traffic completely - little did I know.
Just as I got off the bridge this scene out a Hollywood movie played it off in front off me
- Picture this - just the traffic gets released from the bottleneck that is the bridge and everybody is jockeying to get into position - as close as possible to the car in front, in the normal Dubai tradition when the Policeman mentioned earlier stop in the left hand lane - and proceeds to stop all five (or is it six) lanes of the high way to allow 2 female pedestrians standing on the middle lane of SZ to be able to cross. What happened next was like a slow motions replay - screeching tyres, smoke and cars swerving all over the road, glass flying and the net effect - a three car pile-up, a few thousand Dirhams damage, major traffic jam and a funny looking cop.
To the policeman - what were you thinking!!! But on the other hand - you where on hand to take the traffic accident details right there and then, no waiting for those involved - good work! By the way, did you fine the pedestrians for crossing a highway - sorry - stupid question.
All I can say is - Only in Dubai!
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Am wondering just how many years have you lived in the UAE?? btw,liked your profile pic..any similarity to the real you???
Too long and yes
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