A Close Call

Yesterday evening, Pune's notorious PMT bus( not so notorious as Delhi's Blue Line) did all, but killed us. At the Deccan signal, it hit my car on the left and grazed passed us, bumping the front left of the vehicle severely. The front bumper got knocked off, left headlight is a goner and left bonnet badly mutilated. Had the bus been slightly more on the right, or if we were on a two wheeler, it would have been all over.

This is not to say that mistake entirely was of bus driver. Much of the blame could be attributed to Ashish's( the driver) Kanpuriya style bike driving. The way he drove, it seemed he was still on his bike. But the bus driver could have saved us. He knew that he was going to hit us, as he was overtaking from left at the signal and took a sharp right, and bang we went.

Later he gave all sort of excuses which didn't work. At last he agreed, that signal had gone green, and he had to move( whether anybody gets knocked or not, he damn cared - the underlying assumption). Police was very helpful, and let us go to service station while severely reprimanding the driver.

However, I was a trifle disappointed with the public. Had this been Lucknow, the driver would have gained well in excess of ten-fifteen slaps :-)