A Street Accident

A Street Accident

I read about road accidents in newspaper every day as accidents are a common sight in big cities. Most of the accidents occur because of the rash and careless driving. They bring agony to our mind and also to the relatives of victims, but till the day I had not seen an accident with my own eyes. By God what a terrible sight it was! It was in the short hour of one evening I was going along Mirpur Road to buy a pen for my examination which was going to commence next week. At the crossing I was waiting for the traffic to clear off so that I could safely cross the road. A bus was also running along the road and it was trying to overtake a private car a head of it. All of a sudden driver lost the control of steering and rammed against a horse carriage. The driver of the hackney carriage fell down and the bus crushed him. The passengers in the hackney carriage escaped death with some injuries. The horse was also badly wounded and it was looking for his master. The injured were rushed immediately to a nearby hospital. People gathered at the scene of accident. Some people were showing sympathy for the victim, some were abusing the bus driver and some were advising others to be very careful while on a road. I left the scene with a sorrowful heart for the driver of the carriage who unfortunately lost his life in that accident. Now everybody says what the remedy is. Traffic rules should be followed strictly and we should follow our lane while on the road. The children should be given traffic rules education at school level. We should be careful while walking along or crossing the roads. An accident is synonymous to end of life. Shouldn’t this end now?