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I went out with my Dad yesterday to visit some relatives and to pass them back some stuff.

On the way to BKE, there's this split in the lane. Go straight and you end up in Kranji, make a left turn and you end up on BKE.

There's this absolutely mad taxi driver, with air for brains, (or something similar) did this very daring manouvre.

This nearly resulted in an accident. Mind you, it was raining rather heavily and it was quite dark. If not for my Dad braking in time, the mad Taxi would have smacked right into the driver's side of our car.

The taxi apparently went the wrong way, and wanted to turn on to BKE instead. But it overshot, and did a turn, blind to our car's presence behind him.

Infuriating thing is when, even when Dad honked at him, he still continued his turn! He nearly scratched our car. (Damn him if he did that, I waxed the whole bloody car MYSELF before the accident. Just hours before! My hardwork and the car!)

The ABS was making weird grinding noises at the time.

Even as the taxi went away, I took note of the licence plate.

What I was angry about, was not that my Dad's car would be scratched, or whatever.

It was about traffic safety. And the taxi's reckless behaviour, resulting in dangerous driving. He could have killed someone who was driving faster than my Dad. Especially if the person had no intention in stopping at all and was thinking he could simply drive faster and escape the crunch.

In the circumstances, if he made a mistake, he should have driven up the road. Around one or two traffic lights more up the road, he would have been able to make a safe, legal U-turn and travel all the way back to BKE. But he did not.

The guy obviously had poor sight, and the rain and the dark night wasn't helping him much. Even though he has no passengers onboard, he should not have attempted such a dangerous move.

When my Dad drove past him, I saw a bespectacled uncle leaning forward on his steering wheel.

Seriously man. Drive safely, or you end up losing more than what you bargained for.

Dad was joking about how he saw this taxi pwning itself this morning on his way to Jurong.

Taxis nowadays.

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