September, 2008

My wife met with a bad accident yesterday. She was making a protected left turn when an idiot on his cell phone ran a red light and crashed into her at high speed.

The speed of impact and his position was such that he spun 180 degrees, hit the curb and spun backwards for 30-40 feet before stopping.

Thankfully my wife did not have major injury. And I am hoping and praying that nothing new shows up in the next few weeks, months or years. And she had just dropped of my kids at pre-school, but that very thought of ‘what-if’ is going to keep me awake for many days.

Just to make things more messy, my wife was driving my friend’s car who had swapped the car just 20 mins before since he wanted our minivan to pick up someone from SFO. Now this whole thing is going to be covered by his insurance who is already asking a bunch of uncomfortable questions.

I learnt two things from this whole mess.

a) I am going to throw my cell phone away in the rear seat whenever I get into the car from now on. People could have been killed yesterday. I don’t even want to think if there were pedestrians, bikers or other cars when the other guy swung out of control.

b) This is the last time I borrow or lend anything of any value to any one. I will probably be viewed as a jerk, but it just keeps relationships as they should be without messing them up.

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