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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
Ian how many cars do you see when you are driving on these roads? Do you have a real spare tire or two?  |
There are areas where the roads are literally only used by a single family on a once a week basis, and in the quieter areas you may literally spend days without seeing another car.
On a family holiday in this area, years before mobile phones, we got stuck with 3, yes 3, punctured tyres punctured simultaneously on my dad's car. Talk about being up sh@t creek... Waited around for probably the better part of a day before the folks we were headed to realized something was wrong and came looking for us.
In another incident in the same region my cousin and his family were involved in a very serious accident with the only other car on the road (driver had a heart attack and plowed into them head-on). They lay next to the road for a day before help arrived.
Mobile phones have helped a lot but most people that live in this region carry at least one proper spare, a couple of inner tubes, and a set of tyre levers. Mag wheels are not popular...