There are no accidents, only idiots on our roads

If you have not done it yet, it is advisable that you do it now. Write your will. For death is never so far away as   long as you are driving on a Kenyan road. At the weekend, about 20 people lost their lives in road accidents in Meru, Murang’a and Webuye.

These accidents we surely kill us all, one by one. But let no one fool you. There is nothing like accidents on our roads.

In my driving life, I have had the misfortune of being involved in two crashes.

In the first one, my car was hit from the rear by another. The offending driver then  stepped out drunk as a lord. “God, I hadn’t even seen your car,” he said, shielding his eyes with his palm, from the midday sun.

Then a week ago, my car was hit again. It was night and he was driving at the speed of wind, smack in the middle of the road. I swerved into a ditch and saved my life. The maniac did not even stop to assess the damage he had caused. He must have been  high on a certain unnamed banned substance.

No, we never have accidents  on our roads. We only have idiots with peculiar idiosyncrasies such drunk driving and mistaking their jalopies for rally cars.