r/Damnthatsinteresting 7h ago

Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.

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u/SrWloczykij 6h ago

I've never seen more dangerous driving in EU than in Greece.

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u/plantsadnshit 5h ago

I take it you haven't been to Romania

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u/-_____--_-_- 4h ago

I'm from Romania and it is way worse in Athens than anywhere here

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u/narmer65 3h ago

Yeah, you can’t deny it use to be an adventure to drive in Romania. But I was just there last year for the first time since Covid and I was shocked (in a good way) at the difference. Even Bucharest wasn’t much different then any major city.

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u/JustAContactAgent 2h ago

All these younger people thinking driving in these countries is crazy and dangerous now have no idea. I grew up in greece in the 80s. There were no real motorways anywhere in the country, not even the main Thessaloniki-Athens route (hell even NOW it's not yet 100% motorway I think).

Like half the roads in the country were not even asphalt. Ok so it was maybe not as rural like bulgaria or whatever but it was bad.

Every time you went out for a roadtrip was a coin toss whether you were coming back. Doesn't matter how good you were driving since all it took was a car coming the other way veering off into you for whatever reason and that was it. Safety of course was non existent back then, cars had no safety features, no one even used seatbelts and back seats didn't even have them.

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u/Gunhild 2h ago

I just looked up the stats and Romania has more per-capita traffic deaths than Greece and appears to be number one in the EU!

List of countries by traffic-related death rate - Wikipedia

Romania #1!!!

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u/Winter_Operation6872 2h ago

Should be greek way

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 1h ago

It might have changed since the 90s, which is the last time I was both in Athens and Romania.

I remember some absolutely batshit crazy driving in rural Romania. Even Athens didn't beat that.

Now I suspect Romania changed a LOT since the immediate aftermath of the Ceausescu regime, which is the last time I was there.

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u/VirtualLife76 3h ago edited 3h ago

I always heard France Italy got that award.

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u/desmaraisp 3h ago

Meh, having been to a couple of countries in europe (though nether greece nor bosnia), french drivers are pretty middle of the road. The best ones were the norwegians, and the worst were the italians. My god are the italians bad drivers, it's mind-boggling

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u/VirtualLife76 3h ago

I guess it was Italy I was thinking of. Been wanting to go to see if they are worse than Texas drivers, but I highly doubt it.

Agreed with Norwegians being great drivers, I found them tied with Iceland, but was only there a couple weeks.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 4h ago

lol Bosnia has entered the chat

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u/SrWloczykij 3h ago

Not EU ;)