Near death Experience

(I never thought that I would write something like this traumatizing experience I have been through.but anyways I'll share it for good.)

It was fine Monday morning, as usual I felt a bit lazy to get myself ready to go office. Even the alarm clock set at 7.00 AM couldn’t wake me up. The weather was just so pleasant that the only thing that came to my mind was just to sleep. But with the help of my caring mom ,  I somehow was able to get ready by 9.00 AM.

Normally I go to office by two ways. One is by the famous “shared auto wallas” of Hyderabad ,which is most widely used by the public for fast and short distance travel apart from buses and second option I have is by my friend Prasad bike . I don't own any vehicle so far for very obvious reasons being the heavy traffic of Hyderabad which I hate a lot.   Prasad and I normally come to office on his bike. We have been doing this for more than year or so as he lives not far away from my home.  I always felt comfortable with the control my friend has on his bike when we are traveling at higher speeds. But all this was not enough for what lies ahead for both of us.

As usual I called him up , when I was near his home. He came to pick me in five minutes. There are two ways of reaching our office. One by the main road which is faster and convenient but takes longer time because of traffic. The other one is a short cut which takes less time to reach but we will have to go through a series of lanes to reach our office. I  don't know why but I have asked Prasad particularly on this very day that we shall go today in alternate short-cut route. But my friend told me that we will take the main road. Our fates were already sealed for that day.

The route via main road requires us to make a crossing to the other lane as we are on the other side of the road. We were traveling in the wrong lane keeping ourselves to the edge of road and making sure everybody hears us coming, by making loud horn sounds. As we reached for  opening in divider that would let us join the correct lane, we stopped and were looking for the gap in traffic that was racing towards us. After waiting for some time, we felt there was a gap in the traffic that would allow us to cross, but the nearest vehicle was some 50 metres away which was more than enough to cross the road. Prasad slowly accelerated towards the crossing. I just happen to notice a sports-bike ( Yamaha Make) which was far away from the nearest vehicle we saw initially, but racing at higher speeds may be more 90 kms. I thought for a second that Prasad might have already noticed it as well as the biker might have noticed us crossing the road.

But our fate has totally altogether a different plan for us. None of us observed each other properly. The biker hoping that he could manage to surpass us was confidently racing towards us and Prasad did not see him altogether. I don't know what was going through the biker‘s mind. He never made an attempt to slow down the vehicle even after watching us. Two seconds before disaster , I knew we are about to collide, I shouted he’s coming very fast. Prasad immediately slowed down the vehicle just enough to shift the impact point from our legs towards front side of the bike. And then it happened. Ka-boom.

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The impact has thrown all of us to the ground. We fell onto the left side of the our bike. I was in a state of shock for a brief moment. But immediately I realized that I was lying in the middle of the road. Fearing that some  vehicle would over run on us,I immediately got up onto my feet and saw the situation before me. I thought Prasad must have been severely injured but to my surprise, he was ok and was the first one to administer help to biker at the other end. As far as the biker is concerned , he was traveling along with his wife. After the impact ,the biker was ok but  the lady was hurled into the air and got badly injured. She has bruises all over her body. The horrible thing was she was crying in pain and was crying for help. I imagined the worst but that was not the case to some extent. She had a minor head injury and her nose was bleeding along with left leg was badly injured in this impact. Luckily good Samaritans from all around rushed in to help us.  

The aftermath followed with heavy traffic jam , arrival of ‘108’ ambulance , taking the lady to the hospital,police arrival along with relatives of bikers and colleagues of mine within minutes of accident. I actually fell onto the my left side after which I couldn't even hold my cellphone with my left hand and call for help as it was shaking but somehow I managed to call. There was heated arguments between both the parties for sometime. But my colleagues pacified the situation after which, both the parties dispersed from the scene of the accident. Thanks a lot to my colleagues for their care and support for us.

As far as our bike- the unicorn  is concerned, the front portion of it was completely destroyed,such was the speed at which the biker was traveling.  We all were lucky enough to survive a major accident. This was really a near death experience for me,If our bike was not slowed down , the impact point would have been our right legs which would have been crushed and four lives would have been at stake. I don't want to blame anyone but the only thing that hurts me the most is that  lady got badly injured because of all this.

All I can do at this point of time is to pray to god for her speedy recovery and hope she leads a normal life as used to be. I wish her all the healthy, wealthy and prosperous life ahead .I hope the biker learns a lesson from this incident as we did.

My dear readers ,my intention  of sharing this with you all is to warn you of the consequences of not following the traffic rules. So be careful while driving , don't drive very fast and stay safe.