I know the post has been getting lesser these days, and I regret to say that this posting is not going to be good news.... I was involved in a terrible accident last night. I had picked my friend up at his saloon yesterday evening before we headed to Thomson for Bak Chor Mee. Was having a great time chatting with him about his saloon, our plans and our holidays. After dinner I sent him home in Sembawang. As I approached Sembawang I suddenly recall that I've seen photos of Sembawang park and it looks pretty nice so I asked him about the place and how to get there. Because I have never been there and I don't have any other friends staying in that area. So he offered to direct me over to have a look. I drove to the park and we went around the area, we even drove to bottle tree park to see the famous bottle tree restaurant. After going through the scenic park, and him recommending some of the secluded restaurants nearby, we left the area to go towards his place. As I drove along Sembawang Road and headed towards the junction of Canberra Link, the green light was on. As I wanted to do a right turn into Canberra Link, I stopped the car at the junction to ensure that the traffic was clear for me to turn. After seeing that the road was clear I negotiated the turn. Just as I was about to complete my turn, a car suddenly appeared from the opp end of Sembawang Road and sped towards my car. When I saw the lights of the car appear, I immediately stepped onto the accelerator to try to speed forward to escape the car, but the pick up of my car was not fast enough to avoid and the on-coming car was just too fast. It banged into the rear left door of my car, sending my car spinning 360 degrees and smashing my window. After the car stopped, I immediately turned to my friend and his eyes were opening and closing, like losing consciousness. I kept calling out to him to wake up, I was terrified. Luckily he regained consciousness after a while. I got out of the car the the damned Indian driver kept calling out,"why you turn, its green light you know, there cannot be 2 green lights". I didn't say too much because I was very worried for my friend, I just wanted to go and see how is he. So we called the ambulance and Police.
The ambulance came shortly to check for injuries, and take the blood pressure of my friend. My tow truck also came shortly to help tow my car away. After a while the traffic police came to take our statements. Asked a few of the routine questions and ended with,"as there is no injuries and no one is sent to hospital, police will not interfere. You can lodge a GIA report with your insurance company to do the claims".
My friend was acting a little funny then, he seem to have forgotten a lot of stuff. Like a partial memory loss. He kept asking me what he was doing in my car and what just happened. That got me really worried. I kept telling him to go hospital for a check but he didn't want to. And then he called his brother to pick him up while my dad came to pick me up.
I was still very worried for him because he totally cannot remember what happened or why he was in my car. He doesn't even remember why we met up and what did we meet up for. He called me a few times to ask me what happened. After that I hear that what he is suffering from are symptoms of concussion. And I got really really worried for him, I kept asking him to go for a scan. I am just worried that there might be blood clots or something. I put my phone just beside me the whole nite so that I can answer it anytime, in case something happens. And I messaged him to ask him to call me once he wakes up because he told me that he still wants to go to work in the morning because he has a lot of appointments and he's the only stylist.
In the morning, he again asked me what happened and told me that his family keeps blaming him and screaming at him, I was really sad to hear it, and feel very bad about it. Although I am not totally at fault for the accident, he is my friend and it was my car. I feel so guilty for it. I met my mechanic in the morning and he was telling me that from the look of the bang, the on-coming car had to be traveling at least 120kmh, because the impact was really bad. But because of the 'right-of-way' rule, I will lose out, even though I was already close to completing the turn. I made my report at IDAC and was told to tow the car to them on Monday for photo taking and to send the car for the insurance pple to arrange for repair. After that I headed to look for my friend to see if he's ok.
He looks ok outside, but I am really worried about any internal injuries. Because he still cannot remember a lot of stuff. He told me that his GP is arranging for a scan, and I hope that they will get him the earliest slot and that the results will be very positive. Now as I am typing, I am super worried, because I just found out that he's been vomiting the whole day, which is very bad.
God please help, and not let anything happen to him. He really doesn't deserve this. I really hope that this is only temporary. Get well soon. Just at the thought of it, I'm tearing already. Haiz, please lord, this I'm begging you.
The ambulance came shortly to check for injuries, and take the blood pressure of my friend. My tow truck also came shortly to help tow my car away. After a while the traffic police came to take our statements. Asked a few of the routine questions and ended with,"as there is no injuries and no one is sent to hospital, police will not interfere. You can lodge a GIA report with your insurance company to do the claims".
My friend was acting a little funny then, he seem to have forgotten a lot of stuff. Like a partial memory loss. He kept asking me what he was doing in my car and what just happened. That got me really worried. I kept telling him to go hospital for a check but he didn't want to. And then he called his brother to pick him up while my dad came to pick me up.
I was still very worried for him because he totally cannot remember what happened or why he was in my car. He doesn't even remember why we met up and what did we meet up for. He called me a few times to ask me what happened. After that I hear that what he is suffering from are symptoms of concussion. And I got really really worried for him, I kept asking him to go for a scan. I am just worried that there might be blood clots or something. I put my phone just beside me the whole nite so that I can answer it anytime, in case something happens. And I messaged him to ask him to call me once he wakes up because he told me that he still wants to go to work in the morning because he has a lot of appointments and he's the only stylist.
In the morning, he again asked me what happened and told me that his family keeps blaming him and screaming at him, I was really sad to hear it, and feel very bad about it. Although I am not totally at fault for the accident, he is my friend and it was my car. I feel so guilty for it. I met my mechanic in the morning and he was telling me that from the look of the bang, the on-coming car had to be traveling at least 120kmh, because the impact was really bad. But because of the 'right-of-way' rule, I will lose out, even though I was already close to completing the turn. I made my report at IDAC and was told to tow the car to them on Monday for photo taking and to send the car for the insurance pple to arrange for repair. After that I headed to look for my friend to see if he's ok.
He looks ok outside, but I am really worried about any internal injuries. Because he still cannot remember a lot of stuff. He told me that his GP is arranging for a scan, and I hope that they will get him the earliest slot and that the results will be very positive. Now as I am typing, I am super worried, because I just found out that he's been vomiting the whole day, which is very bad.
God please help, and not let anything happen to him. He really doesn't deserve this. I really hope that this is only temporary. Get well soon. Just at the thought of it, I'm tearing already. Haiz, please lord, this I'm begging you.
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