There’s a reason locals call the inner ring road ‘the racetrack’. At least a hundred accidents have been reported over nine months9 — one every three days. Does it even make sense to use the word ‘accident’ for such a systematic occurrence, I wonder? The official speed limit is 50 km/h (31 mph), but the ring road is so like a motorway that it’s very hard for drivers to resist putting their foot down.

