Who travels at night?
Some people embark on overnight travel easily and even feel more comfortable than day travelers despite the risks associated with night journeys. Though they try to give reasons for traveling at night.
Some people say they travel overnight because they don't want to miss their daily engagements, some say they travel to meet up with their important businesses or other appointments the following day, some say they can't waste their time traveling during the day when they can sacrifice their sleep at night and use the day for "more important things" as if sleep is not as much important
This post is not meant to indict anybody or discourage anyone from overnight journeys, but this is just to expose you to some of the important things worthy of not which are often neglected but which should always be put into consideration before we travel even during the day
Almost everything we do in this life is risky, even life itself is risky and what Is destined to happen will happen no matter how much you try to be careful or how much you try to prevent them; those are some of the words people use to justify some bad decisions they make in life which include, of course, night journeys
I don't know how many people embark on night journeys here, this post Is specifically for them. The majority of them embark on night journeys from month to month and year to year without having any problems while some who have never embarked on it before fall victims on their first experience
Night journey is very risky especially here in Nigeria where numerous factors endanger lives and properties even in broad daylight, embarking on a night journey increases the risks by over 100 percent. Things you can barely avoid during the day becomes more severe and uncontrollable at night because whether we believe it or not, every night traveler is vulnerable to "anything" at night. They have very limited options!
The fact that you travel severally at night safely doesn't make you invincible, night travel is not something you should do often, the risk involved in it is quite high though sometimes habitual night travelers close their eyes to those risks in order not to be demoralized. But it's better to know the risks and prepare the mind towards them than to be oblivion, that's even a higher risk
Don't make it a habit to travel at night. You could get attacked by armed robbers or kidnappers and no security agents will be around to rescue you, security agents in this part of the world close work and go home at night, even if they're on duty, so. e of them still sleep normally on duty
Night journey predisposes the travelers to a lot of avoidable dangers, do we talk about the bad roads which the drivers can't see due to blackouts that cover the roads at night or is it about the drivers themselves who fall asleep severally behind the steering wheels, some of the drivers are heavy and chronic alcohol drinkers and can't stay awake to drive for long unless they're heavily drunk
Travelers themselves are fatigued before and after the journey and most times can't do any other thing during the day after the journey, so why rush and take the unnecessary risk when you can travel safely the following day and have your full rest at night?
Some of the drivers drive so recklessly at night because there are no road safety officials or police to caution or sanction them for reckless driving
Overnight journeys are so risky that if anything goes wrong with your vehicle at night no mechanics will be available to help fix it, you could remain on the road several hours and sometimes into the morning of the next day before you can get help
Apart from the mechanical and human factors, the weather also plays a very important role; the weather is always hazy at night and the driver always struggles to see through
Normally, most drivers struggle to see well during the day, seeing clearly at night due to unavoidable weather will pose a very big challenge to them, the passengers don't know this, they just relax in the vehicle and even sleep most times leaving their lives in the hands of a stranger because he's a driver
They say heaven helps those who help themselves, help yourself by avoiding obvious risks and danger. Overnight risk is one of those avoidable dangers, avoid it, say no to it!