Anybody who is interested in how driving in the Dominican Republic compares to the states, I offer this video. By brother and family were missionaries in the DR for 3 years and one of their friends sent him this drone footage of current Easter weekend traffic at this location:
Dropped pin Near 2, 71000, Dominican Republic
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Of course it wasn't this busy when Orlando and Portia were heading for the airport, but it demonstrates how dangerous it is there. Watch it carefully several times, there is SO much going on. There's a donkey on the road shoulder under a tree, motorbikes weaving between vehicles, traffic going the wrong direction....
I asked my brother when he would have wanted to leave for the airport had he been the tourists, and he said even after 3 years of driving there, he would NEVER have driven it at night. And he would have started out in the morning. He said roads there have massive unmarked speed bumps that force a driver to go very slowly at night since can't see where they are.
I hope it works to view this Dropbox file. The video is too large to post here.
Dropbox - VID-20190422-WA0002.mp4 - Simplify your life