I have heard many first hand experiences about people escaping death. And I think I am lucky to write about my own.
I was on my way back from tirumala hills, after visiting the famous tirupati shrine, when I came face to face with death. Not getting seats in the APSRTC bus, we decided to hire a jeep for our descend. Unfortunately the vehicle happened to be a rickety one. We occupied the middle row, with Rohit, Pankaj sir, Bishnu and me sitting in left to right position. We were enjoying our journey, with the beautiful locales around and the pleasant weather. We had a deep valley on our right hand side, and I could see the sleepy town of Tirupati, with tiny buildings scattered here and there.
Suddenly, I felt a jolt and a coarse sound, and found myself tilted towards the right side of the vehicle, which is open in a jeep. And to my surprise, I could see, what looked like a wheel of the jeep rolling ahead, which seemed to appear from nowhere! While trying to negotiate the steep curve, the driver could not balance the speed and the turn, which resulted in the breaking up of the right rear wheel and the rim from the vehicle and rolling away from it. Few seconds ago, the wheel was intact, beneath me and now it wasn’t! The vehicle moved ahead along the curve for about 10 meters, and I clung to the rod to keep myself from being thrown on the road. Rohit managd to jump out as he was on the other end. While pankaj sir and bishnu were the next to alight. As soon as the vehicle came to a halt, I jumped out and ran away from it towards the barrier on the other side, just to be missed by a speeding bus, hardly by a couple of inches.
I didn’t know, whether to cuss the driver for whatever he had done, or thank him for preventing the vehicle from toppling. Because had the jeep lost ground, I would have been under it. All I could do was to thank the Almighty, whom I had just paid a visit, for saving my life and others around me.
I was on my way back from tirumala hills, after visiting the famous tirupati shrine, when I came face to face with death. Not getting seats in the APSRTC bus, we decided to hire a jeep for our descend. Unfortunately the vehicle happened to be a rickety one. We occupied the middle row, with Rohit, Pankaj sir, Bishnu and me sitting in left to right position. We were enjoying our journey, with the beautiful locales around and the pleasant weather. We had a deep valley on our right hand side, and I could see the sleepy town of Tirupati, with tiny buildings scattered here and there.
Suddenly, I felt a jolt and a coarse sound, and found myself tilted towards the right side of the vehicle, which is open in a jeep. And to my surprise, I could see, what looked like a wheel of the jeep rolling ahead, which seemed to appear from nowhere! While trying to negotiate the steep curve, the driver could not balance the speed and the turn, which resulted in the breaking up of the right rear wheel and the rim from the vehicle and rolling away from it. Few seconds ago, the wheel was intact, beneath me and now it wasn’t! The vehicle moved ahead along the curve for about 10 meters, and I clung to the rod to keep myself from being thrown on the road. Rohit managd to jump out as he was on the other end. While pankaj sir and bishnu were the next to alight. As soon as the vehicle came to a halt, I jumped out and ran away from it towards the barrier on the other side, just to be missed by a speeding bus, hardly by a couple of inches.
I didn’t know, whether to cuss the driver for whatever he had done, or thank him for preventing the vehicle from toppling. Because had the jeep lost ground, I would have been under it. All I could do was to thank the Almighty, whom I had just paid a visit, for saving my life and others around me.
