Okay, so I’ve known for the longest time that many Singaporeans drive like madmen. However, I had always thought that to be more of an exaggeration than actual fact. Now that I’ve been living here for more than a month, I’ve noticed, a couple of times, cars simply running red lights. Of course, these don’t occur at intersections, at least not that I’ve seen, but mostly at pedestrian crosswalks. Did I mention that they don’t run through them while attempting to beat an amber light? They run through them knowing full well that it’s a red!

What the heck?

So several weeks ago, I saw a car run a red light, this one happened because the bugger was on his cell phone while driving, and after he runs the red, he makes an illegal U-turn at the following intersection! Furthermore, just yesterday, I witnessed the same thing happen not once, not twice, but three friggin times! All at the same crosswalk. The first one didn’t exactly run the red, he managed to stop in time, albeit a screeching one. Several minutes later, a pickup truck comes roaring right through the red light without even flinching while there were pedestrians crossing the road at the same time, good thing no one got hit though. What is the bloody point of putting a pedestrian controlled crosswalk there if drivers are just going to ignore it? The last one was in the evening when I came back from shopping.

The scary thing is drivers could probably care less for pedestrians, sure they don’t want to run them over, but they don’t want to give way either, crosswalk or not. What’s worse is that some pedestrians don’t even use the crosswalks, especially the elderly, my grandmother being one of them. They seem to think that Singapore roads are still like the old roads of kampong villages and that even if a car is coming, it won’t hit them.

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