Trichy-Tanjore road is one of my favourites ,the road which I have travelled for 4 years during my college life. Traffic comparitvely less and smooth roads with no bumps and holes.As usual I was zipping past 90 kmph in the highway,road expansion is going on and trees which were once giving wonderful shade thoughout the journey were cut off ruthlessly to make way for 4 lane.
Brahadeeswarar temple is one of my favourites I used to spend hours admiring the Chola architecture.We entered the temple admiring the beauty of the temple.We were finishing our prayers at all sanathi and uncle being genourous enough donated handful of money to the temple priests.So we were getting royal welcome at all places.When we were planning to leave it started raining ,rather pouring I pinched myself to make sure I m in Tamilnadu and not in Kerala.
When rain got reduced a little we started to move as Sailu s friend was waiting for us.I took my car outside the temple and slowly followed thier car. It was pretty dark out there. Here comes the event of that evening ,its a km away from the temple and I was driving as usual ,suddenly a big tree out of no where from my sight falls and bangs right on front part of the car.Our wind shield was cracked into 100 pieces and bannet crushed.It took some time to overcome this shock.By the mean time many people assembled around the place.I looked aside to Sailu and uncle thank God nothing had happened to them so to me.Some ten people lifted the tree and pushed the car back.We opened our jammed doors and came out and had a look at my vechicle no other words to describe it.
I called up my dad immediately without realising it was raining that time some drops water entered into my keypad and my mobile started to behave crazily.Dad said to get a FIR from police so that we could avail insurance.When asked ,people around said there is a police station just 100 metres away.We went and inquired there ,sub inpector(SI) in the station said we need to go and report this to road and transport dept which deals with accident cases which was some 4 kms away from that place.In the mean time Sailu s friend dad brought his camera and clicked few snaps of our pathetic car.SI asked whether i could drive the car to other station.I tried starting car it started and I tried move it moved perfectly.So it was decided to take our car to other station.
I slowly followed our friends car taking care not hit another vechicle as visibility was reduced much.We reached the other police station crossing all major junctions in the city and most of the people on the road were lookin at the strange junk piece that was moving around.
The inspector of the station came up with an wonderful explanation, accidents are categorised under three ways
-->Vehicle hitting a person
-->Two vehicle hitting each other
-->Vehicle hitting a wall or tree
Since a tree has fallen on our car they cant book a case against the tree it seems and they asked us to go back to the same station and get the report.When it comes make people roam here and there no one can beat our government agencies.
So same ordeal was repeated and we took the car back to first station.Finally we got our incident receipt at the place. Then we kept the car at friends house and caught a bus back to Trichy.
Thinking about the incident once again if at all the tree would had falled a second later it would have directly hit on us.What saved us on that evening?
2 comments:
That was sad *sigh* .
Good that nothing happened to anyone..
In most cases, it's extremely difficult and irritating to deal with these police..
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