* Dubai - Labour bus drivers use roads 'as race tracks'
Dubai -Gulf News, by Sunita Menon -19 Dec 2006: -- Highways are doubling up as race tracks for bus drivers who bet on the time it takes to drive labourers to work and home again... In a bid to imitate Formula One races and prove themselves the better drivers, bus drivers are racing each other, sometimes betting, to see who is the fastest... Spurred on by the labourers to get to their destination quickly, the drivers admit that they are endangering their lives and those of others, but the thrill is just too much, revealed investigations conducted by Gulf News after the bus accident on Shaikh Zayed Road which killed nine and injured 56... (Photo by Tracy Brand/Gulf News - Bus drivers transporting labourers challenge each other and race on Dubai's roads, including the busiest Shaikh Zayed Road)
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