Cabarete
Not much is know about this death yet.
Mujer canadiense muere en accidente en cabarete
donP
Not much is know about this death yet.
Mujer canadiense muere en accidente en cabarete
donP
some info on Facebook....
People need to be extra careful if traveling to Cabarete for
this holiday season.
According to that info she may have been a passenger on the scooter and a male (riding it) was injured, but is OK.
donP
What is unclear about that information? she is gone, he seemed ok as in not dead, no names no nothing, it's a real tragedy but people need the information
that looks like ahead on collision with electricity post. regardless of the reason: speed, alcohol, other road users - wear your helmets, folks.
I still can't say I have an abundance of driving experience here, but I can say without a doubt Cabarete is the most challenging drive I have yet encountered on my moto. The stretch coming into Cabarete from Sosua all the way to Janet's is fraught with hazards. Pedestrians everywhere, other vehicles come from all directions, high speeds and all the idiocy we see elsewhere. Within Cabarete proper, the street is narrow, there are speed bumps, cars parked willy-nilly, people darting across the street. There is almost too much movement to be able to take it all in.
I've almost had two crashes there in as many months. Neither would have technically been my fault, but I would not have fared well. Even the gringos behind the wheel the wheel of their massive jeepeetas seem to have lost the ability to drive the way they were originally taught. I know that "he who pauses is lost" here, but please people, don't succumb to the temptation to emulate our Dominican brethren on the roads. Do not become lazy or complacence. It's astonishing the number of foreigners who I mistake for a Dominican because of the way I see them operating a vehicle: Following too close, passing motos with less than a foot of separation, entering traffic when the lane is not clear, pulling out to pass a car doing 100 and nearly running me off the road because you're in my lane and I am just another moto who will surely get out of your way until I don't or can't...
Well I live in Cabarete and feel pretty safe here - just as safe as I do when in Sosua, if not more so. Believe me, Amet regualarly shake down motorists in Cabarete just as they do elsewhere. The only criticism I have is that they could enforce the parking rules better to ease traffic flow.
And by the way, the accident we are talking about here didn't happen in Cabarete town itself, but a couple of miles from the centre, on the road to Sabaneta.