This Road is a Bloody Trail

I just witnessed a car accident.

Today, 30th Jan 2010, approx 1320pm, at the Shell Station bus-stop near NP, as I was chatting with 2 classmates of mine, we head a loud Bang.

Its a Saturday, yet traffic was strangely heavy today. There we were, at the bus-stop, and I spotted 2 Secondary School girls from YI, crossing the road. Indeed, they were jay-walking, but so have 4 of us PForters on that very same stretch of road.

Alas, I didn't see the whole thing. But what I saw was substantial. I saw the white Mercedes Limo-cab brake hard; and I saw her legs in the air. She flew, and she landed hard. When traffic cleared a little, I saw a small group of people, cab-driver included, crowding around her. A Caucasian woman popped her head up with the student's bag, and checked her pulse. A bottle of water was passed around till it reached the Caucasian woman, and she used to it clean off some blood. I wasn't able to really see, but I did see her bloodied face and arms. She was alive, and the police and eventually the ambulance came, and then off they went.

I thank my lucky stars I'm alive to type this, because I too came close to being run-over by a car while jaywalking last Wednesday night. Had I been rooted to that spot for a second more, the consequences unthinkable.

Indeed, she was lucky to survive, and I too hope she survives. Still, I cannot imagine the pain a parent would feel to know that all their sacrifice and investment has come to an abrupt end when their child dies.