Accident

If you have read, Planet Prasanna titled blog post, then you must be well aware of my driving skills. In short, I drive like, the road is mine & i'm the only one driving on it. Everyone else should give way & adjust to the way I drive. I won't generally see, left/right/center during a cross but just go through expecting others will slow down by seeing that i'm driving. Well, in short, I just drive like regular Bangalorean ;)

I learned to drive bicycle when I was in 4th standard. I still remember. The neighbor boy (Srinivas) had a Ranger cycle which I was trying to ride for the first time. Srinivas & another boy were holding back the cycle & I was trying to peddle holding my hands on handle with my fingers on brake (I had just learnt about brake, peddling etc). Slowly as I started to balance & move ahead, they both left holding cycle & I was driving on my own. It was an anti-slope where one must keep peddling to go ahead & I applied strong break (I still don't know why) over there & fall off from the cycle. My skin of legs & hands were torn off displaying the red color of my blood.That was the only time I had ever fallen off from cycle/vehicle till last week. By the way, those kids made utter fun of me for weeks about my falling off from cycle by applying brakes on an anti slope !!!

Until last week, I was driving vehicle crazily as usual. Over the past several years, there were many moments where I felt, Oh My Goodness, that was very close. Thank GOD!!! But every time, I had somehow managed to escape from such horrible accidents. I had never met one since my bicycle incident which I explained above. Last week, while I was dropping sis to bus stop, I broke my record of "never falling off since 4th standard" record!

It was early morning & I was sleepy? probably. I had to drop off sis & got onto vehicle just like another day. There was truck standing still on the left side of the road while a car from opposite direction was crossing from my right side. As it was crossing I tried to go in-between them (truck & car) & there was big pot hole just in middle of road! As car crossed, I drifted into the pot hole. Damn it. I was point blank at that moment. Don't know what happened next & I was already fallen on road. Its like, FLASH, and next moment fell from vehicle on road. I couldn't control it all. That was very strange! I hope, every incident/accident (be it major/minor) happen in similar way. Once that point happens, we will be blind fold for a moment with everything out of control! Next moment, you know, some incident would have happened already!

Surrounding people helped to straighten up the vehicle and we both also got up ! Ufff... Although nothing much happened to sis(Thank GOD for that), but I was quite a bit injured (not majorly but minorly). Similar to cycle incident, skin of right hand & right leg were pealed off & still the same color, red, of my blood was getting displayed. It was paining like HELL but somehow managed to drive back home.

After this incident, next day I couldn't dare to take out vehicle to office. I worked from home (you know what I mean). After being off from vehicle for one day, next day I sat on vehicle and started to ride. This time, I felt different. I was being too cautious while driving. Looking into mirror while crossing roads, slowly driving behind other vehicles instead of forcefully over taking them, honking appropriately etc. I see this drastic change in my driving skills. Well, I thought, this is better and safe way of driving and I made promise to myself that, from today on, i'll drive like "this" only.

Although my record of "not falling off from vehicle since 4th standard" even though I drive like crazy does not hold true anymore, but I learnt a lesson out of this minor accident/incident, that I must drive more cautiously & safely. And I hope, I continue to follow it :)