Sometimes you just can’t win.

Wow. And he lived to tell the tale... Get well soon, mister. I have to say, though, that India's one country where I'd not want to be on a motorbike. The faith of the people is very fatalistic and if it's your day to die, it's your day to die. There's nothing you can do about it. You can slow down, check your mirrors, look before you pull out but if your destiny is to die it will happen whatever. So why bother with seatbelts, MOTs and all that stuff if everything is in the lap of the gods? Truly terrifying! Still, I'm glad that the gods were with those guys.

lucky that vanwas there or he would have been flattened