Wednesday, October 12, 2005

ONCE...car accident

yesterday morning about 8.11 am, after i paid toll at Seafield exit (ELITE) joining KESAS, i saw one old Merc stranding on the left. all his debris; bumpers, broken glasses are all over the road. seems like it had scratched along the divider (btw, this Turning is quite popular for people hitting the divider or spinning on the road when it's wet...i've seen few cases before).

everybody are trying to avoid the debris. as i'm turning towards KESAS, suddenly i saw the back of 1 tonne lorry (wodden back) coming close to me. my thinking at that time was it going to hit my windscreen and my chest! Thank God (Alhamdulillah!) it's somewhere down there on my left. as i pulled over, it's my signal and a hole in my bumper (one month old bumper). and actually, that lorry hit a kelisa. the Kelisa was quite bad; rear windscreen fall-off, right taillights are broken and a very unhappy Kakak. i sat there listening to their quarrel (the merc drove-off after 3 of us pulled over). then, i saw a brand new civic in the middle of the road facing against the flow. luckily, other vehicles are quite far...just that he need to wait quite a while before our "curteous" drivers gave way for him to leave safely.

about 5 minutes after that, one Kia Rio hit the divider like nobody's business (guess there's oil on the road that made it more slippery...i don't think she didn't turn there..but that's how it look like from where i'm standing) and immediately facing against the flow. most people managed to manuver safely except for one Waja that hit her head-on ! and unlucky for her, the Lori Tanah hit her back (but she's lucky that the lorry has slowdown already). a minute later, patrol car arrived to control the situation.

for me, i can't claim from the lorry (i'm at the back), and he don't need to claim anything as no damage on his side. so, slowly...i drove to my favourite workshop where towards the end-of-the-day estimated about RM1400 for all the damages. should have lodge the report and pay the tickets and make my insurance to pay but then...too late to complain already. anyway, need to look for options tomorrow. saw few workshops in glenmarie, hope can get better deal.

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