I have always been in a dilemma - whether or not to get down and help - when I have witnessed a road accident. On a few occasions I have got down to help and see if the person involved in accident is an acquaintance.
Early this morning, I was driving back home after filling fuel for my car. I was driving down the Tyagarajanagar police station road. Suddenly an ASI of police (traffic) drove out of the police station in his white bullet and another guy was approaching the police station on his pulsar from the opposite direction and he was driving quite fast.
Within seconds, the ASI and the guy on pulsar collided right in front of the police station and I braked suddenly. Luckily, I was atleast 10 feel away from where they collided. The ASI fell on the ground and the guy on pulsar managed to regain his balance and drove past me in the same speed. I saw the ASI on the ground and his walkie-talkie was thrown off and landed right in front of my car. I got down, picked up the walkie-talkie and helped the ASI stand on his feet.
The first few words from the cop shocked me beyond belief. I had expected a thank you or silence at the most! To my surprise, the ASI started shouting at me and asked why I was driving so fast and why I was careless!!! Just then 3-4 other policemen and policewomen (there is a women’s police station next door) came out and all of them thought I had hit the ASI!!
Thankfully, two elderly gentlemen who were walking by informed that I had not hit the ASI and that it was another guy on another bike. It was only after that, one of the other cops took his bike and started chasing the biker who had actually hit the ASI.
I have been wondering ever since as to whether I did the right thing in getting down! But for the two elderly gentlemen, I could have been in serious mess. If this could happen to me when I got down helping a policeman, I just can’t imagine what my fate would have been had I got down to help any other motorist who was knocked down on the road!! This incident will surely make me think twice before I get off to help an accident victim the next time…..
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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the other dilema is whether u want to take an injured to the hospital. i am surprised india still doesnt hv a 911 number for all this.. forgot even accidents if a truck is blocking the road, we shud hv a number we can call and they will clear it in few minutes
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