Driving during the day in the Philippines is tough enough. Driving at night is a nightmare! Too many vehicles do not use headlights or taillights. Some vehicles think they are using their headlights but are really driving with their parking lights on or with flashing multicoloured tube lights which they think is an appropriate substitute for headlights. The result is that drivers cannot see oncoming vehicles or vehicles they are approaching until it it's too late.
For two nights I stood out on the corner recording the mess on the highway. It seems the most common infraction is motorcycles with no taillights. Some may think this is no big deal but they are wrong. If an oncoming vehicle cannot see you then you are putting your life at risk. How many times have I seen a motorcycle using a flashing turn signal as a a headlight!? Are lightbulbs so expensive as to be unaffordable or are these people just lazy?
The footage I recorded is not so great. It's difficult to record at night without making everything blurry and bright. I was planning on recording for a week but I realised that it would mostly be all the same kind of thing, motorcycles with no taillights, which is boring, and I wanted to speed up the film and set it to Yakety Sax. If I had more footage to speed up it would have become unwatchable.
Enjoy!
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