This animal called the motor vehicle:

Recently while driving within Nairobi on some errand or another, I was dumfounded by the icy eyeball stare of a pedestrian in reaction to my warning hoot as he sauntered nonchalantly across the road against a red light for pedestrians and a green light for vehicles. It was obvious he had not the foggiest idea that a car is an animal capable of devouring one in mere seconds.

 A few weeks ago I blogged about the fear of being ‘eaten’ by an animal drummed into many of us Kenyans at a very early age. My intention was to bring out the fact that perhaps if the dangers of motor vehicles had also been drummed into us at an early age maybe, just maybe the carelessness exhibited by many pedestrians walking in the streets of the towns and cities and the highways and byways of Kenya would be more wary and aware of the imminent dangers posed by motor vehicles. So I will try a different tact and see how it goes.

A motor vehicle, be it a bus, a truck, a trailer, a pick-up, a passenger car or any of the many other variants is a wild untamed animal. It moves at speeds many times faster than a human being can ever accomplish, and is unemotional, unafraid and totally unaffected by its tenacity to inflict harm on one of  its favorite meals the human being. Any human being trying to out run it would be fodder to its voracious appetite in the blink of an eye. Its appetite is not only reserved for the human being as it also devours others of its own kind who dare to challenge its authority while on its side of the path!!



I doubt anyone survived this accident!

It is so vicious that it should be feared more than a well-aimed bullet, a dangerous man eating lion, the innocuous scorpion whose sting is fatal or a hissing poisonous serpent and should be treated with the utmost respect. It is can make mince-meat out of a human being and is also an accomplished cleaver cutting through bone as easily as a saw. It can disembowel you, mangle you, throw you a hundred feet, churn you into an unrecognizable mash of meat, bone, gristle, intestine, your last meal and brain and still keep on going as if nothing happened, its innards unaffected and unblemished by its voracious appetite.

Sometimes the brainlessness and unhealthy appetite of the motor vehicle comes from a strange feeling of power and invincibility when it is is being controlled by a driver high on cheap liquor, who is anemic and suffers from poor eyesight but is too proud to accept, or one who has been exposed to some illegal substances either smoked or injected or out of plain tiredness causing him to want to move faster and faster and becoming even more of a killer animal than usual. Talk about an unseeing, unfeeling automaton!!

Often many motor vehicles are in a poor state of health and have not been subjected to the tender loving care expected to tame a dangerous animal. It often suffers from poor braking, a suspect suspension system, defective and smooth tires, use of poor quality fuels and lubricants, poor blurred vision as a result of dodgy head and tail lights all causing it to stagger all over the road and often refusing to move at all and in addition to being a dangerous animal while in motion, making it also a potential killer while at a standstill – general malaise occasioned by poor diet and health care. The sicker the animal the more dangerous it is almost like a rabid dog unable to distinguish fact from fiction.

This is an animal to be respected by all means and has been the leading cause of suffering and misery across the country - and indeed across the world - as it continues to devour people day in and day out with no respite. It has killed more people annually than cancer and AIDS in Kenya combined and will continue to do so as the Grim Reaper of choice unless we Kenyans start respecting this animal and giving it space to travel at its crazy speeds because believe or not if you give it the space it demands, it will leave you alone as it passes along its well-trodden path.  

A bad motor vehicle accident

And when the animal suffers from its health related issues, it is incumbent upon you to leave it alone and look for a healthier specimen which is much easier to tame to take you on your wild ride home. When the driver himself seems to be suffering from delusions of invincibility it is your responsibility to let him know that your life is not fodder for the insatiable greed of this animal called a motor vehicle and choose to alight rather than wait to be the next serving of its voracious appetite!

So you have been warned about this heartless animal called the motor vehicle, responsible for gruesome deaths across Kenya over the years and which is as unfeeling and as callous as they come, lurking around the corner waiting to pounce on those foolhardy enough to dice with it by crossing its path at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

For the sake of your family and friends………..TAKE CARE lest you be the next victim of this vicious beast!!

NB - For those with a strong constitution you may view pictures of motor vehicle accident victims by following this link - http://www.nairaland.com/375098/nasty-effects-road-accidents-caution .
The pictures are extremely graphic so proceed with caution