Köşklüçiftlik Inner Streets – Night Hours (23:00–02:00)

Night hours in Köşklüçiftlik inner streets are often mistaken for low-risk periods.
Between 23:00 and 02:00, traffic volume drops, noise fades, and drivers feel relaxed. Yet this calm environment is precisely where many damages go unnoticed.

At night, the street layout does not change.
Parked vehicles remain in the same narrow positions. Turning angles stay tight. What changes is perception.

Headlight beams distort depth. Streetlights create shadows. Mirrors, door edges, and bumpers blend into darkness. Low speed gives drivers a false sense of control, while visual information becomes incomplete.

Most night-time damages follow a similar pattern:

• mirror contact during tight manoeuvres

• bumper scraping while turning

• door opening into an unseen passing vehicle

Often, there is no sound.
No sudden stop.
No immediate reaction.

The damage is discovered the next morning.

Drivers frequently assume that an empty street equals safety. But during night hours, reduced awareness replaces congestion as the primary risk factor. In narrow residential streets, centimetres matter, and darkness removes those centimetres from judgment.

In Köşklüçiftlik inner streets, night-time damages are rarely isolated incidents. They repeat on the same streets, during the same hours, under similar conditions. This repetition shows that risk here is not random, but time-dependent.

Silence lowers alertness.
Lower alertness increases misjudgement.
Misjudgement leads to unnoticed contact.

Silence is not safety.

This is only one example of damage patterns that repeatedly occur on the same street at different times of the day.