ACCIDENT ESSAYS

It was a very cold morning as it had been raining very heavily the previous night. As my mother was feeling a little under the weather, my sister volunteered to drive me to school. I had overslept and as a result, was running a bit late for school. We got into the car hurriedly. The road was already congested with traffic. It appeared that everyone was late as well.
My sister was a careful driver and despite the fact I was already late, she refused to drive fast on the slippery road. I was lucky she was such a resolute and careful person because a few hundred meters away from the school, we witnessed a tragic accident. it all happened very quickly, as most accidents do. A car full of school children had made a left turning without signaling and as a result a school bus crashed into it. A few cars behind the school bus rammed into the bus as they could not brake in time and soon it became a pile up. The already congested road became jammed with vehicles that came to a crawl. I told my sister that I wanted to help the victims and she nodded silently. She brought the car to a halt not too far from the accident spot.
The scene that greeted us was something I would never forget. It left an indelible imprint in my mind to date. The impact of the accident had plunged three school children out of the car. The driver, a lady, lay lifeless on the steering wheel. I rushed to the children who were preschoolers. Two of them were seriously hurt and bleeding profusely from the head and hands. they were conscious although too weak to realize what had happened. One of them had her left hand severed and appeared unconscious. I think she was killed on the spot. In the meantime passers-by had called the ambulance and while waiting we tried as best as possible to help the victims.
The passengers in the school bus too were injured. I dashed into the bus and saw the driver laid slumped on the wheels. He had severe injuries on the head. While my sister helped him down from the bus, I told the injured school children to stay calm. Most of them appeared to suffer from minor cuts and bruises on their arms and bodies. it was really fortunate that nobody was badly hurt. By then a few adults had entered the bus and together we instructed the children to come out of the bus slowly. The children were crying and screaming for their parents and we had to hug them to keep them quiet.

Meanwhile, two ambulances had arrived. A traffic police car was there too. Two policemen were taking down statements from eye-witnesses. The injured and the dead were whisked away to the hospital. My sister and I later gave an account to the police of what had happened.
I was late for school. In fact, many drives were also late for their work. I informed my teacher of the accident and both felt that it could have been prevented if the drivers and the boys had been more careful. Innocent lives would not have been lost otherwise.And that’s one lesson to be learn .

ACCIDENTS IN MY CITY .
Introduction
It is not all the time that people come across accidents on a weekly basis. There was a time when I did. With the amount of vehicles on the road and the hurry with which people travel, I am not really surprised to witness such awful events. I am not surprised but I am indeed sorry. This has made me wonder whether I would meet a similar fate, before I leave home every day. With the increase in the percentage of road accidents in the city, I am forced to think that we will become immune to this loss of lives.
Accident – Now an every day event
The following are some incidents that I witnessed. I was on my way to my college in a town bus. My college is situated on a highway and highways are generally accident prone areas. As I was nearing my destination, I heard a loud crunch- like the sound of metal against metal. All of us in the bus shrieked as the bus screeched to a halt. A long silence was broken by the murmur and chatter of those who had discovered what happened. When I looked out the window, at first I could see nothing but a few seconds later I saw what everyone else was talking about and my hands instinctively went to my mouth. I could see blood stains. Though I could not see it, I knew that the body of the poor man was somewhere under the vehicle, probably wedged between the wheels. The victim died on the spot. This was the first time a vehicle that I was in hit someone. Everyone around me began to fill out of the bus hastily and, not knowing what else to do, I followed. I walked the rest of the way to the college.
The next happened in an interval of a few days. Two men on different bikes met with an accident and though there was no loss of life, by the looks of it, I suppose they were seriously injured. This was followed by another accident, again on my way to college. You would not believe how many I have witnessed but it is true. Here I did not actually see the accident but as I passed the scene, I could see an old lady lying on her back, sprawled at an odd angle. Anybody would have known that she had died on the spot. These events are etched in my mind and I know that I won’t be able to forget them easily.
Conclusion
It is true that we are constantly in a hurry to do things that are important to us, but let us not do so at the cost of someone’s life. I hope people would be a lot more careful in the future when it comes to safety.