A year ago……
Winter started in Gurgaon and I could have a pleasant sleep as the noisy ceiling fan in my bedroom had to rest. It’s October and a not a bad time to visit a hill station…
We (office friends. I hate the word ‘colleague’, don’t know y) had planned to visit ‘Nainital’ .After several discussions and plans we finalized a long weekend for a comfortable 3 day trip.
After ‘Bhai’ dropped himself at the last moment, Saurabh, Nilesh, Thrinath and I booked a Tata Indica, and started our journey on a Friday night. Saurabh sat next to the driver as I could not sacrifice my sleep.
It was a wonderful journey from Delhi
The road was hardly visible and the drowsy driver made sure to steal our sleep.
We reached Nainital the next morning.
After visiting few of the local places we had to travel some distance on a scenic ghat road The driver assuming himself a Michael Schumacher drove as fast as he can overtaking every other vehicle on the road. It reminded me of the climax scene of “Tokyo
Our frequent efforts in reminding him, that the Ferrari hez driving is actually a Tata Product, went in vain. This bloke was very good with his steering, but how many times have we seen cars crashing on a well built F1 tracks? And this after all was a stone studded tar road…
We had a break to have Chai and it was my turn to sit next to the driver.
A Toyota
All the mountains and the long trees watched this collision silently. Silence prevailed in both the vehicles for the next one minute…
My head struck to the windshield which eventually cracked. I got down the car and had spit a spoonful of blood. For a moment I thought that my head broke into two.
Obviously it wasn’t!!
The radiators of both the cars were blown out and the jaws of both the drivers hammered.
The guys sitting behind were safe (enough to take a photograph of the wreckage) and had minor scratches.I could hardly speak…
The couples in the other vehicles were also injured. What a Honeymoon!!
That day could have been my last day had our Desi car’s strong body and trust worthy brakes failed! Thanks Tata.
This accident of mine did not find a place in the next day’s NEWS. May be because Rahul Gandhi wasn’t travelling with us or may be because it wasn't a BMW. !!!
5 comments:
aweeeeeeesomely conveyed your close shave experience in a freaky accident...gald that despite the incident of accident you had a memorable n pleasure trip...
dude..even though it was a head on collision, you guys were lucky to survive and take a photograph too. btw is the pic in the post of the same car or some other junk car..lol...well keep posting some interesting things, hopefully not too many accidents
if i wished i cud have attached the wreckage of Princess Diana's car :)
It was a nice description, U just missed to mention about the Spirit of all 4 of us Specially urs. Even after this accident right at the start we went ahead and Enjoyed the trip thoroughly hence making it successful.
It must have been a narrow escape. But still you people enjoyed the trip, and that’s what matters the most. I hope both the drivers learnt their lessons..
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