Monday, March 16, 2009
Woah
Long time never blog liao. And today I almost killed a motorcyclist on the road. Was traveling on the PIE near bukit batok exit on the right most lane and a motorcyclist just lost control of his bike in the middle lane in front of me while I was checking the mirrors to filter into that lane itself. So you can imagine the shock when I turned back my head and saw a bike and a man on the road tumbling. What happened next should be described in slow motion.
I steered the car back to the right most lane
Anticipated the rider's tumble motion on the floor
Braked from 80+ to 30-40kmh on a very wet road with ABS kicking in constantly
Maneuver the car so as to miss the rider's head and which I swear was less than 1 meter from my left front wheel
Accelerated away while looking at the rear view mirror to see if there is some misfortunate accident.
Shouted every vulgar word that I knew
Luckily for that rider, everyone was able to brake in time to let him recover. And that he just tumbled within the centre lane and just crossed into my lane slightly. Otherwise I would be in the front page of a newspaper tomorrow.
Ride and drive safe especially in the monsoon season.
Posted by SebKing at 2:54 PM