Peru Bus Accident

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/10/peru.bus.crash/index.html

The stories of me in this bus are grossly exaggerated. It's deffinitely a sad story, but based off of my experience with Peruvian drivers, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

Many of the people here do not learn how to drive like we do when we have a learner's permit. Instead, they buy a car and essentially just start driving. They have to pass a "test" to get a license, but I doubt it's anything like we take.

The most concerning manuever I've seen so far occured when we were at stop light, and when the light turned green, everybody that wanted to turn left, just started going, even down the wrong side of the street. This continued until oncoming traffic decided it was their turn!