Tuesday, April 25, 2006

I met with an Accident

Last evening I faced the first ever road traffic accident in my life. I was on my way to home with my fiancé by my bike around 1900 hours. We just left Kribathgoda Food City and was passing Mahara area and there was a huge and continues traffic jam all along the Kandy Road. I was on the wrong side of the road (Usually thats how bikers pass lengthy traffics) but there was nothing coming from the opposite side. I rode very calmly and I saw a person crossing the road about three vehicles ahead, and he is a person that I knew. So I stopped the bike very closer to the line of vehicles towards Mahara junc and let that guy to cross the road. A Nissan caravan came on the opposite direction and there were more and enough space (even for another vehicle) for him to go. The bugger suddenly turned the van to my side and knocked me. I was clueless abt what happened. Two of us were stuck in between the van and a Pajero which was on my left side. People ran in to us and took both of us out. The driver of the van was drunk. It was totally due to his fault but I also was on the wrong side.

What I wonder is about the consequences. No hard injuries for us. My left wrist and the right knee of my fiancé got thumped heavily. No single scratch to the bike except a footrest broke down and rear wheel slightly distorted. My footrest has taken the revenge by screwing in to a front tyre of the van. And there were scrape marks on the body as well.

A good experience for me, but there are hundreds of restrictions for me now.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm sorry about what happened. Important thing's that the both of you'll are OK.
I saw a comment you had left on my blog and thought I should at least get back (even though it's around 7 months ;)

Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

damn that was annoying. how do these guys manage to pass thru so many cops on the road. anyway glad ur arlight. i had my 1st motorcycle accident when i was 16, so ur luckier that way. :D

Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:48:00 AM  

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