Second Accident In A Year

Yesterday afternoon, I had an accident, my second time in a year. Last year, I was riding a bike, the process was a pain. This time around, I was driving a car, the process was lame. I was on my way to office (on a Sunday? I have been working on weekends since two weeks ago). It was about 1 pm, the location was beside the UTC terminal at Jalan Bagan Luar. My office is just about 300m away. So close, yet so far...

The accident involved 3 cars, a Waja in front of me, my New Saga and a Mercedes. It was raining; quite heavily as my wiper had to be on level 2 speed. The Waja, wanted to turn to its left but without giving signal (stupid driver again), it slowed down and tried to turn in slowly. I followed behind, quickly hit on the brake so I could stop behind it, and I did! But unfortunately, the Mercedes behind me couldn’t do it (slow reaction I think for an elderly) and hit the rear of my car. causing it to move front and hit the Waja.

The Waja guy, a 30 something Malay guy, came out of his car. I asked him how come he could turn without giving any signal? Then I asked him how to settle then. His reply was:”Orang saya dekat hospital”, then he said: “repot balai” to reply my second question. At the same time, he took out a note and jotted down my number plate. I was thinking: “Shit, this stupid guy, now causing me to have some shits to follow up”. He left in a rush but I managed to remember his number plate. I just wondered why he would want to turn into that corner, as there was no hospital and the shop houses were closed as it was Sunday.

The Mercedes guy, a 50 something Indian Uncle (yeah, 3 races involved, what a day!), got down of his car and started to check on the car’s damage. His car’s front bonnet was damage about ¼ of the area. That uncle was nice though, didn’t make so much noise (I think so may be he realized it was his stupid mistake too).

Then me, after checking with the Waja guy, I checked my car. My front lamp, mudguard, bonnet and bumper was broken, scratched and damaged. It was not that bad though so I proceed to check my rear portion. To my surprise, it was not damaged. Just some scratched and my rear sensor was unpluged. I was told to shift my car inside, so I did it and it was still drivable. The Mercedes was not lucky as mine; it was towed to traffic police station later.

While waiting for my dad and the towing truck to come, I heard people said in an unbelievable manner. They were comparing the damage suffered by my car and the Mercedes. “Wow, New Saga so solid, Proton had done much improvement, it was worth to buy.”, they said. I was like:”So how am I going to solve this mess?”

Then later a workshop guy came, took the photographs of my car and the Mercedes, introduced himself and said his workshop can repair and claim the insurance for me. I was like:”Ok, how long to settle it?”. He said:”Within 10 days, fastest will be 3 days”. Later he offered to guide me to traffic police station with the Indian uncle and we went there and had the process done. The uncle got a traffic penalty for his “slow reaction”. Who could blame him? Everyone will grow old one day and please drive carefully, old folk, not every time is a lucky time.

After that, I was still proceeding to my office and settle my works. Reaching home, it was a bad day. Later that night, it was a bad night too. But after that, it was becoming alright as it was not that bad if we had someone to talk to... Taken a verse by The Backstreet Boys’ song in their newest album:

“Baby, babe gonna be alright;
Cause I'm by your side when the whole world turns against you;
Yeah yeah... I wont turn against you...”
“Baby, babe gonna be alright;
Cause I'm by your side when the whole world turns against you;
Yeah yeah... I wont turn against you…
You can let go”

Thank you very very much, really... You are the best!