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Many years back I remember travelling in Sudan.
The roads through the desert were a bit like raised berms and at night, trucks and up-country buses - festooned with what seemed like hundreds of lights - hurtled down these narrow roads at a great rate of knots.
The problem was that with all the lights there was massive electrical overload - so they tended to drive with the lights off - only periodically putting them on to gauge where they were going. There was a 4 to 6-foot drop on either side of the road.
The effect at night as you drove down the road with pitch-black darkness ahead past your headlights, was that periodically there was a huge blinding flash as some truck/bus switched on all their lights for a few seconds.
Night vision destroyed, the vehicles disappeared. Another flash, darkness again, and then a sudden whooooosh as something thundered past...
It was exciting, to say the least.
In the daytime you could admire the remains of the wreckage strewn in places alongside the road.
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