All the seat's in the bus were occupied. Many people were requesting the conductor that, "I want to go to Mettur or Dharmapuri (it's small town on the way to Bangalore) shall I board the bus". The conductor replied, "please wait outside the bus while the bus starts I will take you all, there is no seat so you have to stand during the travel". It's very common in India traveling long distance standing, since it's not easy to provide sophisticated transportation system to the whole lot of population. So when the bus is about to start it was almost flooded with people. Since my seat was near the walking bay people standing there kept hitting me.
Then the bus started softly giving us all a small vibration, riding through the bus stand it reached the main roads towards Mettur. Mudhalvan movie was being played in the TV's kept in the bus. It's one of my favorite movie so I was watching it wearing my specs since my optical power is -3 in both the eyes I can't see the image clearly without specs.
After reaching Mettur many people standing got down & new set of people got into bus to travel to Dharmapuri. Then it reached Dharmapuri safely riding through the soft night. And there most of the standing people got down so the bus in now only with seated people & traveling towards Hosur via Pallakoad.
The bus have just traveled 6 kms from Dharmapuri. I was in a semi sleep state, keeping my legs folded and laid on the back of front seat. Suddenly felt a jerk, I was standing outside the bus in the agriculture land. Only after few seconds I realized that the bus met with an accident. Before I realize I got down of the bus with reflex action. Since I sat near the door I was the first person to get down, with in few seconds everybody in the bus got down. Many of them got wounded, due to the sudden jerk people sleeping hit the iron in the front seat and many of them got their teeth broken. I have a deep cut on my nose, it was because of my spectacle. Thank god the glasses haven't broken, if it had broken then I might heavily wounded. It was bleeding heavily in my nose, it's total dark so I couldn't find where I'm wounded I just feel that it's bleeding near nose. I used my kerchief to remove the blood stains & after some time I realized that there was a cut on my nose & the bleeding is not from inside the nose.
One guy got fits people helped him. Then I went inside the bus again to take my bag along with other passengers, I heard screaming from the front of the bus. I remember an old lady, one girl & her mother sat on the first seat behind the driver. I couldn't even think how much they have wounded I quickly took my bag & got down. Only after that I tried to find how the accident happened.
The bus was traveling in the left end of the road & a lorry was traveling in right end of the road in opposite direction, during that time another one lorry tried to overtake the lorry without realizing that a bus is coming in opposite direction. Then both the bus & lorry driver applied sudden break but in vain already the lorry had hit the bus. Surely the bus driver might have badly wounded. The lorry driver haven't wounded much.
Then some people came from the near by houses, we requested them to help the people who stuck inside. Since we are under total shock we can't be stable to anything.
I along with some 3 others thought of going to Dharmapuri again & take another bus to Bangalore. But how we can go at this time, we crossed the road to take a help from the upcoming lorries. When we crossed we saw two policemen reached the place, I astonished on seeing them, whether TN police are so active. We requested a lorry to give lift to us till Dharmapuri. By God's grace that driver is a very good person, he took four of us with sympathy. For us the lorry driver traveled through Dharmapuri instead of going in his normal route to Namakkal. On our way to Dharmapuri we saw three ambulance & two police patrol jeep crossed us. And also a bus to take the deserted travelers to the destination. I really amazed that, do things happen so fast (in few min) in India? We got down in Dharmapuri bus stand thanking the lorry driver & cleaner.
We three people took another bus to Bangalore from Dharmapuri. We reached Bangalore by 6.15AM. This is the first time in my life I have felt the fear of death.
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