I became a stuntman driving my car flying over the divider at Jalan Lintas ring
road like James Bond (Agent 007)always does in the movie recently. I was
travelling from Damai towards Lintas Square at around 8:00pm and was keeping to
the extreme right hand lane because I intended to turn right into Lintas Square
at the traffic light. It is the habit of KK road designers to cut a special lane
for drivers who want to turn right or make a u-turn so that these cars would not
obstruct the main flow of traffic.I entered this special lane early to avoid
meeting some weirdo drivers who refuse to let others to cross lanes and you may
miss the junction if you are unlucky enough to meet such drivers. As I was
happily driving along this special lane and keeping my eyes on the traffic
lights at the far end wishing that it will turn green while I reach there.
Suddenly there was a loud bang and felt a big thud under my car, and I found
myself air-borne! I held my steering wheel tight in order not to land on the
opposite lane and luckily landed on the grass of the divider. I guess I flew
almost 10 meters and was lucky enough not to ram into any on coming cars! Thank
God there was no lamp post, no trees on the divider,else I wont be sitting here
writing this story already. Then I realized I entered this special lane too
early because it leads to an u-turn first and the smart ass who designed this
part of the road built a curb after the u-turn so that cars in this lane can
only u-turn and cannot go straight. If you want to turn right you have to enter
the special lane after the u-turn.Why he has to build the curb and not allow
cars to go straight pass the u-turn, only God knows. If you realized you are in
the wrong lane and do not want to make a u-turn,you have to avoid hitting the
curb by swerving to the left and risk being hit by cars coming from behind.But
at night You will not be able to see the curb because the lighting was poor and
the curb was not painted with reflective material. In the above news clip you
can see the brake marks on the roads, I am certain many drivers had performed
(unexpectedly) the same stunt as I did. The person in the picture was a DAP
leader,Edward. Maybe he too suffered the same fate...LOL
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