Eventful Morning

I didn’t plan on it being such a morning where coincidences just result in horror. I left home at about 10am this morning to get to uni by 11am to try and get some quizzes done before my anatomy lab this evening.

Seeing that I missed my connecting bus at the busport, I went upstairs to get me some grub cause I wasn’t feeling too pleased with the buses. Next thing I know, I met Anggie and Darren! Now that was indeed the nice coincidence of the day. Sat with them and caught up for a bit and left to go catch my other bus. Turns out I had missed the next bus by 2 minutes. Trust me to do things like that.

Fine, so I waited to take the NEXT bus to uni 10 minutes later. Got onto the bus and went a-travelling down St. Georges Terrace. Next thing I know, I looked up and I saw this lady in front of the bus and heard this heart stopping thump as the side of the bus crashed into the lady. She flew a bit and next thing I know (I was sitting towards the back seats), the bus driver had drove a little bit more and I saw her thru the back doors of the bus, lying on the road, cllutching her right arm and with a little cut on her head.

My heart just stopped right there and then. She looked a bit dazed and I don’t know if she hit her head or not, but I think her arm was giving her the most pain.

Little to say, most people there whipped out their mobiles and called the ambulance and people were gathering around her to see if she was alright and brought her to sit outside the cathedral. The bus driver pulled up, out of the way of traffic and made us all get out of the bus. He quickly radioed the appropriate people and got down to check if she was alright. The ambulance was pretty good and rocked up in 5 minutes and 2 paramedics took their own sweet time to get out of the ambulance to see the woman.

Admitedly she wasn’t very bashed up, most would be a concussion, a few stitches to her head and probably an ice pack and x-ray for her arm. It wasn’t as if the ground was blood splattered or anything. It was such a commotion, that you would imagine that someone just got cut up pretty badly.

In the end, the ambulance people helped her walk to the ambulance for some first aid and I got onto the same bus that hit her and left on my merry way to uni. I am still shaken up with all that has happened, but I’ve come to the deduction that I’m going to try and avoid taking buses for a while. Seeing people on the road where the bus came dagerously close to them really had got my heart pumping way over its normal range.

That particular accident really was the fault of both the bus driver (which is Malaysian btw - connection seen?) and the lady crossing the road. She tried to cross the road in front of a bus which was picking up passengers when the bus I was sitting on was trying to pull in front the stationary bus. That woman just walked and BAM! She got whacked a bit.

Eventful morning indeed.

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