Last trip my taxi was in a traffic accident. I wrote about it in a blog entry then.
This time my taxi was in an accident before I even got from airport to hotel! Or maybe better to say we got hit by someone on a motorbike! I snapped a quick picture of the cab before getting into a following cab and completing the ride to the hotel.
We were stopped at a traffic light. Unusual enough that I took note of it. While still sitting at the light and the light still red there was a thump at the back of the taxi and then someone slid along the cab at my right side passenger window and then down to the pavement! And just behind him, falling to the pavement outside my door, was his motorbike.
The street was VERY busy and in typical Vietnamese fashion nothing stopped. All the traffic kept moving past the cab, the motorbike driver and his motorbike.
The driver got up off the ground pretty quickly, picked up his motorbike and seemed to be attempting to start it. My cabbie got out, walked around to the motorbike driver and took the keys from the motorbike.
Not sure if he did that because he didn't think the driver could drive safely or because he wanted to keep him around for the police report.
In any case there was an empty cab in the road right behind mine. Moved my luggage into that cab and completed the journey to the hotel.
So, I guess, welcome back to Vietnam! The adventure begins anew.
