TNT Road Rage Ax & Mud Edition

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 November 2019)



                                 Ax me no questions...

On 9 May, an argument erupted between a truck driver and a car
driver heading towards Bostancı on the Ümraniye TEM (Trans-
Europe Motorway) highway on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. 

The driver of the car, Murat Okuyucu (39), tried to hit the truck
with an ax he was brandishing from his car window (!).  Okuyucu
was taken into custody by police and jailed for 17 days.  After
being released on 27 May, Okuyucu paid a fine for the rest of 1-year
sentence, in light of his 'good behavior' (!)

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türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 28 November 2019)


            Mud baths are all the (road) rage these days.

Hüseyin Kartal was driving his dump truck on the Basın Ekspres
Road in Yenibosna, Istanbul, when he suddenly stepped on the
brake to avoid another car slowing down. 

However (!), the uncovered dirt in Kartal's truck had turned to mud
because of the rain.  So, when Kartal's truck stopped short the mud
flew out of the dumper onto a car driven by Zeki Erdem, whose
window was (unfortunately!) open at the time. 

Traffic on Basın Ekspres Road came to a halt as clean-up crews
arrived to clean up the mud mess.  Erdem lamented that "My car
and me are covered in mud! If he had put a tarp over the dirt this
wouldn't have happened!"




                         Road Rage: It's gotten this bad.