The weather has quite sucked today with pouring rain. Naturally traffic backed up because quite simply with all the pollution in Kosovo, the roads become quite slick when the water hits the fine coal dust from Obilic and the local population often fails to adjust their driving speed and skills to the changing weather conditions. Even more interesting, there often is an attitude of “this is my world, you are just living in it”
A good example of this is the accident that my husband Troy had today while sitting at a red light. Normally when you are third in line at a red light you don’t have to worry about any traffic hitting you but alas, someone managed today which probably should be recorded in some record book somewhere in the category “Seriously? I mean seriously?!”
So sitting third back in a line of traffic, Troy got hit in the front passenger panel by a vehicle trying to cut in from the side. With a median in the way and the huge blue EULEX patrol sitting in line, the man driving didn’t have anywhere to go and evidently was too impatient to wait for traffic to pull up so he proceeded to drive into the side of the EULEX car. Now the story interestingly enough does not end there!
After proceeding to scratch the side of the Patrol, the offender made eye contact with Troy, backed up, and then left acceleration marks as he took off the opposite direction! Probably the first time I’ve heard of a person leaving tire tracks away from the scene of the accident. Oh yeah, and the story continues from there. EULEX Security shows up and so does KPS.
KPS tells the three international police officers that they do not believe the accident happened the way that they have been told, oh yeah except the guy who caused the accident fled the scene. Naturally telling a carful of police officers that they are lying went over well. So continuing in the accident report, Troy and his colleagues managed to get the license plate of the vehicle that hit them. But of course, KPS has an answer for that too and says that their vehicle registration database is inaccurate so they probably won’t be able to find out who caused the accident. So basically, hit & run accident, KPS doesn’t feel like doing any work and there probably will be no outcome for the report. In short, if you want to drive like a kamikazi and play bumper cars in traffic, do it in a KS-plated vehicle and flee the scene of the accident because KPS won’t believe the person reporting the accident and won’t investigate the license plate because their database is supposedly so outdated that all the information must be wrong :P
