Let us explore the US Depart­ment of State’s travel page for Amer­i­cans vis­it­ing Haiti.

They aren’t pulling any punches here. The first sen­tence con­sists of“Haiti is one of the least devel­oped and least sta­ble coun­tries in the West­ern Hemisphere.”

All­righty, well, how’s the crime? “There are no “safe areas” in Haiti.” Thanks State Depart­ment. “Reports of kid­nap­ping, death threats, mur­ders, drug-related shootouts, armed rob­beries, break-ins and car­jack­ings are common.”

But by far the best part of this doc­u­ment is their sec­tion on trans­porta­tion in Haiti.

Cars are sup­posed to be dri­ven on the right side of the road in Haiti, but few roads have lane indi­ca­tors and dri­vers use what­ever part of the road is open to them, even if it is not the cor­rect side of the road.

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Roads are gen­er­ally unmarked, and detailed and accu­rate maps are not widely avail­able. Lanes are not marked and signs indi­cat­ing the direc­tion of traf­fic flow sel­dom exist. This lack of orga­ni­za­tion, along with huge pot­holes that occur with­out warn­ing, may cause dri­vers to exe­cute unpre­dictable and dan­ger­ous maneu­vers in heavy traffic.

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Although writ­ten and dri­ving tests are required to qual­ify for driver’s licenses, road laws are not gen­er­ally known or applied. Sig­nal­ing immi­nent actions is not widely prac­ticed and not all dri­vers use turn indi­ca­tors or inter­na­tional hand sig­nals prop­erly. For instance, many dri­vers use their left blinker for all actions, includ­ing turn­ing right and stop­ping in the road, and oth­ers flap their left arm out the win­dow to indi­cate that they will be tak­ing an unspec­i­fied action. Dri­vers do not always ver­ify that the road is clear before switch­ing lanes, turn­ing, or merging.

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Speed lim­its are sel­dom posted and are gen­er­ally ignored.

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Right of way is not widely observed in Haiti

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Walls built to the edge of roads fre­quently make it impos­si­ble to see around cor­ners, forc­ing dri­vers to edge their cars into the road at inter­sec­tions to check for oncom­ing traffic.

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In addi­tion to vehi­cles, a vari­ety of other objects may appear on the road in Haiti.

Sounds worse than LA.