Cutting the corners is everyday normal here. It is far from adviseable to be sitting like a lame duck in the middle of the road waiting for a gap, so taking the first available gap, even if you are 50 metres from the corner, is simply the way things happen on the little moto.
The same skills are often used by cars too. When you get to truck size, it is a little trickier ...
Woopsie - remember, traffic is (mostly) on the right here. My best guess is that the blue truck, carrying a load of watermelons, cut across at around 30 degrees and hit the brakes when he suddenly saw the Camry car. Unfortunately, that big white truck, laden with rice sacks and trundling down Monivong Boulevard, was not going to stop in half a metre ...
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