Many people think that car accidents are caused by negligence.
Once I was involved in a car accident and the police officer told me that in
Penang island alone, about 100 cases of major and minor accidents involving all
sorts of vehicles happened every day. That was about 15 years ago. The number
might have risen due to more vehicles on the road these days. Furthermore, road
construction works are carried out everywhere and errant parking on already
narrow roads; coupled with impatient drivers made our Penang roads relatively
deadly for road users.
Have you ever wondered why road accidents always happen on a
roll? For me, if one minor accident hit me; then further mishaps would cease
until next cycle. If I escaped one accident, then a second would entail and the
third and the fourth. Normally, if three consecutive incidents were avoided,
then I would be safe for the year… I am not superstitious, but I do feel that
there were ‘something’ to get me into those troubles…
Let’s turn our attention to Karen, who is an actress used to
star in many Hong Kong movies. Sometime ago, Karen participated in a paranormal
show where she was required to conjure ghosts in a warehouse using some
traditional method. The program did record down some inexplicable phenomena.
It was around 1am when the filming activity ended. As usual,
Karen drove her car fetching another new actress, Jess with her. Just as when
Karen was to stepped on the brake paddle to switch to reverse gear, she somehow
accidentally stepped onto the accelerator paddle causing her car to rush forward
and rammed onto a brick wall. This impact caused her front bumper to dent and
somehow dislodged on the right side. Both ladies screamed out panicked.
Everyone on the scene rushed to their aids. Luckily none of
the ladies were hurt and the car bumper was later temporarily fastened by a
piece of steel wire by filming crews. Everyone thought that was just an
accident perhaps due to tiredness. So, Karen restarted her car again, bided the
crews good night and drove away.
As Karen drove on, both of the ladies chatted to drive away
the boredom of night driving while keeping each other awoke; suddenly the car
came to a police roadblock. An officer approached the car waved his hand
indicated to Karen to stop her car. Karen wound down her side window and looked
at the officer.
The officer said: “Mam, your headlights are not working, so
is your brake light… Please remember to replace them tomorrow. Good night!”
Karen thought that was odd, she
just had her car fully inspected by the manufacturer last week. But she thanked
the police officer and drove on.
Now Karen’s car came to a sharp
corner and as she was negotiating the corner, Karen suddenly found her steering
wheel jammed. Instead of turning anti-clockwise according to the curvature of
the road, the steering wheel was locked and the car turned towards clockwise
direction, which was a deep ravine. Panicked, Karen’s sweat flowed down her
forehead; luckily Jess noticed something was wrong. And, both of the ladies
tried as hard as they could to turn the steering wheel anti-clockwise.
In a split of a second, the
steering wheel was miraculously turned towards the anti-clockwise direction and
the car skidded, and its left side smashed against the granite wall and the car
finally halted by wedging in a drain between the wall and the road.
Again, both ladies escaped
unharmed. Karen immediately called for help and both of the ladies were sent to
hospital for further check-ups.
According to Karen, she couldn’t
raise enough courage to look at her car; which she later described that she if
it was not the car number plate, she couldn’t believe that the scrap iron in
front of her was her beloved car!
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