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[mindmetoo]

Those scooter delivery guys, like school bus drivers, generally don't obey those crazy red traffic lights. Tonight some scooter guy figured a recent red is really just a soft green and tried to plow on through the red. Well, the taxi driver with the green didn't see it that way or see the scooter. Crack. The scooter went sliding across the intersection. The scooter guy lived. He seemed like he was in great pain and pretty dazed. No helmet but I think he landed on his butt.

Of course the other drivers all started honking away. How dare a person roll around on the pavement in pain.

[chiaa]

[Manner of Speaking]

I hear them more often than I see them. Once I saw a pizza guy take a corner at night, didn't see any more until I heard a sudden screeching of tires, and thump! Ploughed into the front of a car. Unconscious, at least one leg broken, and hauled away in an ambulance.

Another time I saw a guy on a scooter trucking some jajangmeon...again I heard a squealing a brakes, a thump!

Jajangmeon & noodles all over the road. Which is not a pretty sight. It looks like someone eviscerated a small animal.

[mindmetoo]

[peppermint]

kid and dog with matching dye jobs?

[honeybuzz]

My friend's grandmother died earlier this year after being hit by a scooter.

[Corky]

whenever there's an accident, they come out and spraypaint the road with the vector of the collision. Around the corner, there's the dimesions for the front of a car at the start of the intersection, and over the opposite curb about 10 metres away is the spraypainted outline of a scooter on its side.

[inkoreaforgood]

[keithinkorea]

In Korea I've seen two scooter accidents and I'm actually suprised it is so few. I have seen a hell of a lot of near misses. Both times the guys were a bit damaged but nothing too serious. Dazed, Bruised and mystified sums up how they looked after the crashes.

They seem mystified that if you ride a scooter like a kamakazi c@@@ then you end up on your arse nursing some bruises and that is if you're lucky.

Korea is the hub of psychotic and bad driving whether it be bus, scooter or car.

[dg611]

I rode motorcycles for 25 years before coming to Korea and I never had an accident worse than a scuffed knee. I spent 4 years riding around on a motorcycle in Pusan...in 99 I got tagged by a guy who claims he dropped his cellphone and was looking for it when he sideswiped me in the lane next to him and knocked me into a parked car across the street. Front fork smashed into the front of a parked van and then I fell over...I saw the spilling gas and got up quicker that I would have otherwise. Basically, I walked (hobbled) away with only a badly bruised right wrist and ankle and perhaps a slight concussion (thank god for helmets) The cellphone story was horsehockey..he was actually, making an illegal U-turn...but since he didn't actually cross the double yellow line, he got away with it. He only paid me about 2million to replace by bike (totalled Kaw 750) and the hospital bills cost about 600,000 for 5 days (which I though was excessive since I felt ok after 2.)

I really wish that I could sue the guy though because ever since then my girlfriend (now wife) won't hear about me riding a motorcycle again

REMEMBER: If you ride a motorcycle in Korea (or anywhere else for that matter) you are invisible!

[mog]

Do delivery guys get drilled by their employers for getting the food to its destination as fast as possible? Or is it just a mentality of the culture?