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A couple of days back Jerome and me were returning from Muruga’s home in his bike, it was around 7 in the evening and we were going near the Pallikaranai bus stand, all of a sudden a man who was standing beside the road tried to cross the road looking at the other side of the road and Jerome, who usually has better control over his bike had no time to reflex to stop the bike, the front wheel hit the man’s leg and we all three fell down, then Jerome and me stood up and the man who was hit was not on his legs it was nearly 20 seconds and he has not yet stood up and i ran to see what happened and was really shocked, blood was rushing out of the wound in his head, nose and ears, he was unconscious, his shirt was fully soaked by his blood. Man! i was afraid, then suddenly realized that there was no time to stare anymore,i tried pulling the man up to make him stand and 2 or 3 boys came for the rescue but he was really unconscious, there was a clinic near by, we took him there but the Doctor told that he can’t do anything, since it was a accident case.
In a while the man(49) started to stand on this legs, but still he was bleeding, the Doc in the clinic simply didn’t came forward to do first aid 
Then someone near by suggested us to take him to a hospital near Medavkkam. So we managed to catch an auto and Jerome went along with the man,i took the bike and followed the auto to the hospital, mean while Jerome called up Muruga and told about this and he also came to the hospital. Some of the victims relatives were informed and they were also there in a while. Jerome managed to pay for the First aid and we left in a while after the treatment was done.
Rachel on 05 May 2008 at 4:04 pm #
is the man alright now?
Marc on 05 May 2008 at 9:04 pm #
The problem is:
Momentum = Mass x Velocity
Since Jerome’s mass is close to infinity momentum becomes infinitely large. If you alone had been driving you there wouldn’t have been an accident.
Gowtham on 06 May 2008 at 12:44 am #
Rachel, I think so !
Marc, LOL
But the real fact is we were not even speeding, it would have been 30 kmph only.
Vinod on 06 May 2008 at 6:09 pm #
Feel lucky that I was not the one who drove the bike.
jeromeprem on 07 May 2008 at 2:04 pm #
By god’s grace me and gowthaman r safe…….
Gowtham on 07 May 2008 at 2:18 pm #
At least you fell on the other side, i was on the middle of the road, thank God no vehicles came behind
George on 10 May 2008 at 10:16 am #
Wow, ouch. That’s the problem with these pedestrians, it’s like they don’t know what’s going on around them. They’ll stand in the middle of the road at a corner and look around peacefully. Or they’ll stand on the side and suddenly rush forward. Whatever happened to being alert.
Lucky it wasn’t too bad.
Marc on 10 May 2008 at 1:35 pm #
You need bloody CS reflexes to drive on the roads these days.
Avenger on 20 May 2008 at 1:58 am #
Well…a law has been laid stating tht u can give first aid for an accident case and the police complaint can wait…
what i mean is tht previously doctors wouldnt touch a victim of an accident case unless a police complaint or sumthing was issued..now the police stuff can wait…