Wednesday, January 10, 2007

India Day 14 – Accident on the Highway

While we were driving back from Surat, our driver Khaibhai was swerving in and out of traffic, so that my aunt could get to a train station on time. Around Varodora, the vehicle had cut us off, and then immediately braked his car to a complete stop. Now one thing to remember Seat belts are only available for the driver and the passenger next to the driver, which was me at this time. Any one sitting in the back of the vehicle usually doesn’t wear a seat belt, and typically nothing really happens. But when the vehicle in front of us stopped, our Khaibhai immediately stopped the car, but unfortunately he didn’t stop our car in time, and slammed our car to the one in front of us. As we sat there for a second, everyone was ok, and then the car from behind slammed into us and completely ruined his car. Luckily everyone was okay, even my brother who was sitting in the back of the vehicle, with no seat belt on. As we pulled over to the shoulder of the highway, a police officer stopped by to see if everyone was ok, and then moved on his marry way!!

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