Indian Traffic Rules

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Few unwritten traffic rules:

1. The assumption of immortality is required of all travelers. You will not die regardless of how dangerously you behave on road.

2. Indian traffic, like Indian society, is structured on a strict caste system. The following precedence must be accorded at all times. In descending order, give way to: cows, elephants, heavy trucks, buses, official cars, camels, light, lorries, buffalo, jeeps, ox-carts, private cars, motorcycles, scooters, auto-rickshaws, pigs, pedal rickshaws, goats, bicycles goods-carrying), handcarts, bicycles (passenger-carrying), dogs and pedestrians. The above issuperceded when any one of the above is ahead of another and both are travelingin the same direction. The vehicle in front is allowed any and every movement. Those behind must submit appropriately.

3.  For pedestrians, every colour is green colour.

4. All wheeled vehicles shall be driven in accordance with the maxim: to slow is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat. This is the Indian drivers' mantra. In observance of this rule three things are required of every licensed driver: a good horn, good brakes and good luck.

5. In the absence of seat belts (which, like God, is omnipresent in India), car occupants shall wear garlands of marigolds. These must be kept fastened at all times. 

6. Rights of way: Traffic entering a road from the left has priority. So has traffic from the right, and also traffic in the middle. 

Driving in lanes is a myth.

7. Overtaking is mandatory. Every moving vehicle is required to overtake every other moving vehicle, irrespective of whether it has just overtaken you or whether you are in a rush or not (stories of drivers who were not in a hurry still circulate in remote villages). Overtaking should only be undertaken in suitable conditions, such as in the face of oncoming traffic, on blind bends, at junctions and in the middle of villages/city centres. No more than two inches should be allowed between your vehicle and the one you are passing--and two millimeters in the case of bicycles or pedestrians. When two lorries are engaged in passing a passenger car simultaneously, other vehicles are advised to wait for a narrow bridge or roadside accident to begin passing procedures. Corollary Rule: If one car is ahead of another, it shall, by deftly swerving across any number of lanes, make a responsible effort to keep others, even ambulances, from passing, thus preserving the ancient tradition that no one gets around an Indian.

8. No more than eight passengers shall occupy a single-seated motorscooter, and commuters hanging or sitting on the outside of a bus or train shall in no instance exceed double the number of seats provided inside the vehicle.


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