Over-Zealous Traffic Controller

It was one of those traffic-congested days; around lunch break time. Fred was driving from the Computer Village to his office located at Anthony. He needed to get to his office within the next 20 minutes for the presentation in the boardroom. To avoid the usual long lane of traffic congestion that always builds up at Bank-Anthony Way, he decided to drive through the GRA. As he entered Oduduwa Crescent to re-connect to Maryland, he met the traffic go-slow, very thick and slow.

There were 4 lanes in the narrow street road, all going and none coming. Instinctively, he veered to the right-most lane, which was closer to the culvert. The lane was moving faster than others. The left-most lane was facing the oncoming vehicles, which was not supposed to be, and so there was a traffic jam. Only the right-most lane was moving. He counted himself lucky to be in the moving lane. He looked up and observed two LASTMA officials blocking the lane he was taking and another one blocking the left-most lane. They were arresting  those driving through the two outermost lanes. Fred decided to cut to the lane by his left to avoid the LASTMA officials. He managed to force himself to the left lane.

A LASTMA traffic official came and stood in-front of his car, ordering him to turn to the right and pull up. He didn't budge. Another came around to open the passenger door of his car. Fortunately for him, all his doors were locked. "What offense did I commit? Am I facing the on-coming traffic?" he shouted at the one trying to force open his door after sliding his window down just an inch. The LASTMA official pretended not to hear him and another one was coming to join him to apprehend Fred.

Within 2 seconds, Fred decided what to do. There is no way they are going to arrest him, he told himself. He checked his rear-view mirror and discovered that behind him was free as the other cars behind him were turning to other lanes to keep going. He shifted his gear to reverse, press down his accelerator and shot back like a rocket. As he reversed back with speed, all other cars behind him made ways for him to avoid collision. Some of the other drivers and pedestrians were hailing and waving at him, encouraging him to continue with his James Bond performance. The LASTMA officials pursued him with legs, but Fred was too fast for them. He continued his reverse motion for almost 400 metres like a crazy driver, then cut to the left and sped away, totally escaping before they can mobilise themselves.